Jim1952
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- Location
- LaPorte, IN
I work for a utility company and like many other facilities, I'm try to deal with Arc Flash Safety.
Has anyone come across any information about using some kind of blast shield (metal) to protect a worker while performing remote racking on medium voltage switch gear where a Cat 4 situation can be reduced to a Cat 0. We don't use Cat 3 clothing, only Cat 0, Cat 2 & Cat 4. We have line-ups of switch gear and are thinking of building a blast shielded work area that would hold the remote racking brain box hooked to its cable. For multiple breaker switching for an outage, the cable would be long enough to reach anywhere on the line-up. The operater would hook up the remote racking device at the switch gear in Cat 2, then enter the blast shielded work area to perform the racking.
Jim1952
Has anyone come across any information about using some kind of blast shield (metal) to protect a worker while performing remote racking on medium voltage switch gear where a Cat 4 situation can be reduced to a Cat 0. We don't use Cat 3 clothing, only Cat 0, Cat 2 & Cat 4. We have line-ups of switch gear and are thinking of building a blast shielded work area that would hold the remote racking brain box hooked to its cable. For multiple breaker switching for an outage, the cable would be long enough to reach anywhere on the line-up. The operater would hook up the remote racking device at the switch gear in Cat 2, then enter the blast shielded work area to perform the racking.
Jim1952
