Herzig Engineering

Herzig Engineering Herzig engineering is a nationally licensed electrical engineering firm specializing in arc flash hazard analysis and electrical safety training.

We supply Arc Flash Warning Labels, NFPA 70E training, and PPE requirements.

09/01/2026

A worker shouldn't have to interpret an arc flash label. The right information should already be there, in plain terms, before they open anything.

Boundary, system voltage, and either incident energy or required PPE; that's the difference between a label that guides a decision and one that just satisfies an auditor. Missing fields turn into field guesses.

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An arc flash label is only as accurate as the study behind it. The 2026 NEC changes are in effect now, and they raised t...
09/01/2026

An arc flash label is only as accurate as the study behind it. The 2026 NEC changes are in effect now, and they raised the bar for what a usable label actually has to show.

A label needs to tell a worker the boundary, the system voltage, and either the incident energy or the required PPE. If the study predates a transformer swap, an added load, or a breaker change, the numbers on that sticker may no longer match the hazard in front of them.

Walk your gear before your team has to trust it. If the label can't answer "what am I standing in front of," it isn't doing its job.

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08/31/2026

Not every thermal finding gets the same response. Some you schedule. Some you stop for.

A good infrared program does not treat all hot spots alike. A probable deficiency means plan the repair, monitor it, and address it on schedule. A critical deficiency means stop now, because the equipment is close enough to failure that continuing to run it is the real risk.

The value is in that triage. It tells maintenance where to spend attention first and keeps a genuinely dangerous condition from sitting on a to-do list behind lower-priority items.

Finding the heat is step one. Knowing whether to schedule it or stop is what protects people.

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A near miss is a free warning. Most facilities throw it away.A breaker that arced but did not catch anyone, a hand that ...
08/31/2026

A near miss is a free warning. Most facilities throw it away.

A breaker that arced but did not catch anyone, a hand that came off a conductor a second before contact, a tool dropped near live parts. When nobody gets hurt, the moment usually goes unreported, and the exact conditions that nearly caused an injury stay in place, waiting for the next person.

A close call is the cheapest safety lesson you will ever get, because it arrives without the cost. The facilities that capture and act on them fix the setup before it turns into an incident report.

Make it easy and blame-free to report a close call. What almost happened today is often what actually happens next month.

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Most electrical incidents do not start with a spark. They start with attention drifting.The work around energized equipm...
08/30/2026

Most electrical incidents do not start with a spark. They start with attention drifting.

The work around energized equipment is often routine, and routine is where awareness slips. A phone buzzes, a coworker asks a question, the schedule tightens, and suddenly someone is reaching into a panel while thinking about the next task. The hazard has not changed. The focus has.

Situational awareness is a skill, not a personality trait. It means knowing what is energized, where the boundaries are, and what could go wrong before hands move. A brief pause to reset attention before opening equipment is one of the cheapest safeguards available.

The safest workers are not the ones who never feel distracted. They are the ones who notice it and stop.

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An unlabeled breaker panel is a small problem every day, and a big one in an emergency.When a panel directory is missing...
08/29/2026

An unlabeled breaker panel is a small problem every day, and a big one in an emergency.

When a panel directory is missing, outdated, or vague, every task that touches it gets slower and riskier. People shut off the wrong circuit, energize something they thought was dead, or start flipping breakers to find the right one. When power has to come off fast, the seconds spent guessing which breaker to throw are the seconds you do not have.

Keeping directories accurate is not glamorous, but it is one of the highest-value habits in a facility. Every time a circuit is added, moved, or re-fed, the directory should be updated to match.

Walk up to your main panels and ask a simple question: could someone find and kill the right circuit fast, without guessing?

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08/28/2026

A scary-looking thermal image is not automatically a problem.

Color is not data. A thermal image can light up red and still be perfectly normal once you read the actual temperatures, the scale, and the load. Without that context, a dramatic picture tells you almost nothing, and reacting to color alone leads to wasted work or missed hazards.

This is why interpretation and training matter as much as the camera. A qualified thermographer reads the numbers, compares phases, and accounts for conditions before calling something a defect. The image is the start of the analysis, not the verdict.

Judge the reading, not the colors.

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A huge share of electrical failures trace back to something simple: a connection that was not tight, or was too tight.Te...
08/28/2026

A huge share of electrical failures trace back to something simple: a connection that was not tight, or was too tight.

Terminations are where heat is born. An under-torqued lug leaves resistance that warms up under load. An over-torqued one deforms the conductor and does the same over time. Either way the connection runs hot, degrades faster, and eventually arcs or fails, often taking equipment and uptime with it.

This is why torque specs and calibrated tools exist, and why "snug by feel" is not a standard. It is also why infrared scanning is so effective: a loose connection almost always announces itself as heat long before it fails.

Torque to spec, document it, and scan under load. The connection you tighten correctly today is the outage you never have.

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08/27/2026

One serious arc flash injury can run seven figures in medical costs, and far more in litigation.

The numbers reframe how you think about prevention. Survivor medical care can reach around 1.5 million dollars, and litigation can climb into the 5 to 10 million range, before you even add downtime, equipment loss, and fines. Against that, the cost of an arc flash study and proper PPE is small.

None of that touches the human side, which does not fit on a spreadsheet at all. But even in pure dollars, prevention wins decisively.

An arc flash study is not an expense. It is the cheapest line item in the whole equation.

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Arc-rated gear is only protective if it is the right rating and in the right condition.PPE is the last layer of defense,...
08/27/2026

Arc-rated gear is only protective if it is the right rating and in the right condition.

PPE is the last layer of defense, and it is the one people quietly compromise. Gloves go untested past their retest date, arc-rated clothing gets contaminated or worn thin, and face shields get scratched to the point of distraction. A layer that looks fine can be doing far less than the worker assumes.

Rating matters just as much as condition. PPE has to match the incident energy of the specific task, not a general guess. Category 2 gear in front of a Category 3 hazard is exposure wearing the costume of protection.

Inspect it, respect the retest dates, and match the gear to the study. PPE you have not verified is a hope, not a safeguard.

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