The European Arc Flash Guide
Guide Chapters
The European Arc Guidebook is broken down into 2 information chapters and 16 main chapters, you can access the Guidebook by following the link below:
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The European Arc Guidebook
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The European Arc Guidebook: Table of Contents
The European Arc Flash Guide
This book is essential reading for anyone responsible for designing
or putting workers to task on, or near, large power electrical
systems. This is especially relevant where local health and safety
law uses a risk-based approach to electrical safety such as in
Europe.
It is based upon a bedrock of risk management methodology using the
4Ps of Predict, Prevent, Process and Protect to ensure that arc
flash hazards are systematically identified, analysed, and prevented
from causing harm. Each of the 4Ps are described in detail starting
with a quantitative prediction of harm from the arc flash hazard and
then a separate chapter on prevention based upon practical measures
avoid or minimise harm set against a hierarchy of risk control measures.
The chapter on process, policy and procedures gives advice on a methodical
approach to creating rules and ensuring competence. Finally, the chapter
on protection describes, as a last resort, how personal protective
equipment can be selected, used, and maintained.
This book is packed with the fruits of the author’s vast experience
and there is a chapter dedicated to myths and mysteries as well as
separate chapters for electrical utilities, duty holders, service
providers, contractors, legislation, and data collection.
The Author
Mike Frain is one of the most prolific exponents of arc flash risk management and electrical safety in
Europe over many years. The author is a dual national of the Republic of Ireland and United Kingdom and has
been at the forefront of raising awareness about the management of the arc flash risk in a very practical
way in accordance with European standards. He is an authority on the drafting and training
of electrical safety procedures and processes and has been trusted to deliver electrical safety
consultancy advice for numerous household names in most sectors of industry across Europe.
As a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Engineering & Technology, Mike has
held senior management positions in electrical safety, contracting, utilities, consultancy, and
facilities maintenance companies having direct responsibility for putting people to work on a
full range of complex and large power electrical systems. He is an Expert for the British
Standards Institute and International Electrotechnical Commission Live Working committees,
Convener for the IEC Arc Flash Working Group (TC 78 WG 15) and the Team Leader for the IEC
arc flash end user guidance project team. He is the Vice Chair of the IET Engineering Safety
Policy Panel and leads the Arc Flash Working Group
