Arming Your Clients against Electric Shock

When you’re in the business of providing power monitoring equipment, you should always be ready to offer safety precautions to your customers. With the potentially fatal hazards associated with electrical systems, your customers should be fully aware of the risks and invest on ways to prevent them. By giving them useful information, you may even bring them to better appreciate the technologies you provide.

Working in industries like telecommunications, robotics, and electricity-powered manufacturing carries the risks of injurious exposure to electric currents. Contact with large currents – such as 300 mA of DC or 60 Hz power – even for just a second or less can be fatal. That much power passing through the body can overstimulate or fry vital organs, such as the heart and the nerves or pathways of the brain.

Although those are the fatality thresholds in general, less powerful currents can cause electric shock or electrocution when the contact is prolonged. Short contacts with small currents, on the other hand, can also produce extensive burns.

Ideally, employees that come into contact with terminals, conductors, wires, and other parts of electric circuits should be highly skilled and fully protected from shock risks. As an added measure, highly accurate AC or DC current sensor technologies should be used. By accurately detecting current or voltage levels, your customers can protect their workers from exposure and take action before the power reaches dangerous levels.