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The demographics of arc flash can be found all around Canada and U.S., especially in areas that are heavily concentrated with industrial and automation. Anyone involved in designing, installing or maintaining electrical systems can be impacted on arc flash assessment:
- Electrical engineers
- Consulting and specifying engineers
- Safety and plant engineers
- Maintenance supervisors
- Safety managers
These occupations can be upheld by both genders but are more commonly to be the male gender. All of the occupations listed represent a class of professionals who are highly skilled, well educated and come from all walks of life (culturally). These individuals are very well respected due to the nature of their work and must be very concerned about personnel safety being a number one priority.
There are no limits geographically in Canada; although some industries may not be heavily concentrated in one area. There are those remote areas such as Northern Ontario, Northern Alberta and Newfoundland that are home to some of Canada's finest and important manufacturing facilities. These include Bowater, Syncrude and Abitibi. These paper & pulp mills and oil refineries incorporate large distribution networks, which require special detail to power distribution analysis, electrical coordination studies and short circuit analysis.
Currently, our short-term objective is to bring awareness to the workplace that arc flash along with short circuit analysis is an essential tool when running your business. Our long-term objective is to increase our traffic on the website so that users can see that our on-line tool for short circuit analysis is more in depth and accurate than the large commercial software that cost large amounts of dollars. We establish these goals by exchanging links with other engineering posted sites so that all users can view the scope of the Arc Flash / Short Circuit Analysis.
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