We have gone to wearing cotton HRC2 (8.6 cal/cm2) uniforms and about 10% of the employees have found the clothing to cause burning and itching with at least one case of dermatitis. This seems to be happening in hot locations and when the employee works hard enough to work up a sweat. Our company has taken the approach that we are to wear arc flash protection at all times even there is no risk of danger (sitting in a control room entering data into a computer).I was wondering if others have found some of their employees also have had adverse reactions to wearing PPE’s and how it was dealt with. We are going into our cooling season and a few more people are complaining about the uniforms. READ MORE.

I guess this directed at IEEE 1584 Committee members (Jim) and I know you can’t say too much but is overdutied breakers/equipment going to addressed in the new IEEE 1584? READ MORE