Cholamandalam MS Risk Services Limited

A method to determine the risk of personal injury as a result of exposure to incident energy from an electrical arc flash.
    Determines the incident energy evolved, safe flash protection boundary and PPE requirements as a function of location and work activity.
    To provide designers and facility operators to apply in determining the arc-flash hazard distance and the incident energy to which employees could be exposed during their work on or near electrical equipment.

Collect the system Installation and equipment data.
    Determine the power system’s modes of operation.
    Determine the bolted fault currents.
    Determine the arc fault currents.
    From the protective device characteristics, Find the Arcing Duration
    Record the system voltages and equipment classes for each bus or arc hazard location.
    Determine the working distance
    Determine the incident energy
    Determine Flash protection boundary for all equipment.
    Protective device coordination evaluation for bolted fault as well as arcing fault.
    Generate Arc Flash Hazard labels.

IEEE Std 1584-2002, IEEE Guide for Performing Arc-Flash Hazard Calculations and IEEE Std. 1584a-2004 (Amendment 1)
    NFPA 70E, Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace 2012 Edition, 130.3(B).