Does industry have to follow the NEC

[reyamkram]

Today I was talking to a co-worker he's an engineer he's been in the field for some time now.
I asked him being a licensed electrician and being an employee of the company what are my responsibilities as far as following NEC he replied, that industry doesn't have to follow the NEC and I don't believe that's true at all.
any comments or inputs please let me know thank you.

 

[infinity]

It's up to the jurisdiction to adopt whatever they want. If they adopt the NEC as written it tells us what is applicable and what isn't:

90.2 Scope.
(A) Covered. This Code covers the installation and removal of electrical conductors, equipment, and raceways; signaling and
communications conductors, equipment, and raceways; and optical fiber cables and raceways for the following:
(1) Public and private premises, including buildings, structures, mobile homes, recreational vehicles, and floating buildings
(2) Yards, lots, parking lots, carnivals, and industrial substations
(3) Installations of conductors and equipment that connect to the supply of electricity
(4) Installations used by the electric utility, such as office buildings, warehouses, garages, machine shops, and recreational buildings, that are not an integral part of a generating plant, substation, or control center
(B) Not Covered. This Code does not cover the following:
(1) Installations in ships, watercraft other than floating buildings, railway rolling stock, aircraft, or automotive vehicles other than mobile homes and recreational vehicles
Informational Note: Although the scope of this Code indicates that the Code does not cover installations in ships, portions of this Code are incorporated by reference into Title 46, Code of Federal Regulations, Parts 110–113.
(2) Installations underground in mines and self-propelled mobile surface mining machinery and its attendant electrical trailing cable
(3) Installations of railways for generation, transformation, transmission, energy storage, or distribution of power
used exclusively for operation of rolling stock or installations used exclusively for signaling and communications purposes
(4) Installations of communications equipment under the exclusive control of communications utilities located outdoors or in building spaces used exclusively for such installations
(5) Installations under the exclusive control of an electric utility where such installations
a. Consist of service drops or service laterals, and associated metering, or
b. Are on property owned or leased by the electric utility for the purpose of communications, metering, generation, control, transformation, transmission, energy storage, or distribution of electric energy, or
c. Are located in legally established easements or rights-of-way, or
d. Are located by other written agreements either designated by or recognized by public service commissions, utility commissions, or other regulatory agencies having jurisdiction for such installations. These written agreements shall be limited to installations for the purpose of communications, metering, generation, control, transformation, transmission, energy storage, or distribution of electric energy where legally established easements or rights-of-way cannot be obtained. These installations shall be limited to federal lands, Native American reservations through the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs, military bases, lands controlled by port authorities and state agencies and departments, and lands owned by railroads.

 

[winnie]

The NEC is a code that gets adopted by various governmental authorities and applied to jurisdictions that they control. These governmental authorities may modify the NEC or decide that they don't want to adopt it, or exclude certain industries.

For example, the NEC doesn't generally apply to underground mines (I think MSHA has their own electrical code), and doesn't apply to the power distribution side of power companies. Some aspects of the NEC have different provisions for industrial installation.

But in general the NEC does apply to most industrial situations.

 

[jim dungar]

Not being inspected is not the same as not following the NEC.
Almost all of the big employee safety groups, like OSHA, NFPA 70E, and MSHA, all reference adherence to the NEC.
I am pretty positive insurance companies and corporate lawyers feel legal defense is easier when the NEC has been followed.
It does vary by jurisdiction, but in areas I consulted, the NEC was required even though general inspectors did not visit our sites.

 

[ModbusMan]

They'd be silly not to... any electrician that walks on site is going to expect certain things, one of which being an adherence to whatever version+redlines the local AHJ is following.

 

[retirede]

When I was a plant engineer, we made sure everything we did was in accordance with the NEC. The only difference was that we didn’t have to get municipal permits or inspections.

 

[JohnE]

In MA you have to follow the NEC within a building as described in OP.

 

[garbo]

Back in the 1980's when I started at a large p!ant with a thousand workers & a large maintenance shop I told one foreman that they have numerous wiring methods that are not in line with the NEC. To!d me that I was a troublemaker and they have been in business over 100 years and are continuing to do things like they have for last 40 years when the building was built. Five years later OSHA spent a few days writing up pages of violations both electrical and for high number of back & carpal tunnel injuries . Our 6 person electric shop each got over a hundred hours of overtime to correct violations. When they demanded that I do something against the code I would ask them to p!ease put it in writing and sign it in front of a third party. Of course they never did. Myself and one of the plumbers who had a license and did a lot of moonlighting told the facilities director that we jeopardise our license any time we perform work not by the code.This company wax fixed in their ways and refused to advertise like all of their competitors and slowly lost work until going out of business. At a large hospital that I retired from they insisted that the electricians have a electrical license from our city. ( state does not have a state ekectrical.license ) . They had a five million dollar liability insurance policy that they paid for but we had to.pay the $165 for yearly license renewal. They stated that they wanted us to take out permits under our own license for some small electrical jobs in the hospital & research centers. Told them that I would never pull a permit for them and that was not bought up until a year after I was hired. In all if my 50 enjoyable years as an electrician when I followed the NEC & along with some towns maybe ten to twenty page of their own electrical codes never failed an inspection.