A Year’s Worth of News You Can Use
AEGIS Loss Control is pleased to publish various Quick Tips and white papers throughout the year. Geared toward members who serve in operations and risk management roles, Quick Tips and white papers highlight the importance of inspection, maintenance, infrastructure, and employee and public safety.
Here’s a look back at the topics we featured in 2023.
Quick Tips: 2023 Electrical Safety Code – Safety Rules for Solar Farms
The National Electrical Safety Code (NESC®), also referred to as IEEE-C2, covers the practical safeguarding of utility persons during the installation, operation or maintenance of electric supply stations, overhead supply lines, and underground or buried supply cables. The NESC®, a recognized American National Standard that has been adopted in whole or part by most U.S. states, is updated every five years to keep the Code current with changes in the industry and technology. The new Code took effect on February 1, 2023 and includes a new Section (19) to address photovoltaic (PV) generating stations, commonly referred to as solar farms.
Quick Tips: Learning from Industry Losses – AEGIS Review of Major Liability Losses
AEGIS was originally formed by our members to provide mutual protection against major liability losses. That protection comes not only in the form of risk transfer, but also in sharing lessons learned to better understand the causes of loss and what can be done to mitigate them. Since forming in 1975, AEGIS has paid out over $10 billion in Excess Liability claims to our members. While our membership will never prevent 100 percent of incidents from occurring, there are some key lessons learned and model practices that can be implemented to help limit the frequency of occurrence.
Quick Tips: Steam Turbine Water Induction
Identification of water induction is critical to averting costly steam turbine repairs and downtime. Recent AEGIS evaluations of steam turbine generators have highlighted concerns about the effectiveness of using operational data for identifying water induction. Operator training and attention, as well as the optimization of alarm configuration, can avert water induction events.
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Quick Tips: AEGIS HOW SAFE Is Your Electric System program is now available online
AEGIS is proud to offer its popular HOW SAFE Is Your Electric System program series online at AEGISlink.com. The HOW SAFE Is Your Electric System program is designed to illustrate the importance of effective inspection programs and outline the key attributes of such initiatives. This series highlights a variety of conditions encountered when conducting line, substation or equipment inspections and covers lessons learned from electric contact incidents when deficiencies were not identified.
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Quick Tips: Is it time to switch to PFAS-free fighting foam?
Some of the firefighting foams known as aqueous film-forming foams (AFFF), including alcohol-resistant aqueous film-forming foams (AR-AFFF), contain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), sometimes referred to as “forever chemicals.” Fluorine is the key ingredient in AFFF that is the source of PFAS. Firefighting foams that do not contain fluorine do not contain PFAS. PFAS can remain in the environment indefinitely, potentially causing health effects. The environmental and health concerns with PFAS have led to an increase in regulation at both the state and federal levels. As a result, PFAS are being phased out in the U.S. and across the globe, and research on fluorine-free alternatives has surged.
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Quick Tips: New Focused Services℠ Presentation – Electric Utility Substation Safety and Security Inspection
AEGIS Loss Control is continuously developing new products and services to assist member utilities in mitigating operational risks. We are excited to introduce another new service: Electric Utility Substation Safety and Security Inspection. This latest AEGIS Focused Services presentation provides practical advice on how to recognize conditions that may impact public safety and/or the physical security of electric substations.
Quick Tips: Is Your Hydrogen Contained?
Commonly used at power generation facilities, gaseous hydrogen (H2) poses a serious risk of explosion if ignited. This Quick Tip is intended to highlight risks associated with hydrogen systems for power generation facilities, and to help members understand their options for mitigating the potential for loss from an uncontrolled gaseous hydrogen bulk supply release into a building, an enclosure or the atmosphere.
Quick Tips: AEGIS Loss Control Announces Updated Lithium-ion (Li-ion) Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) White Paper
AEGIS Loss Control is pleased to announce the updated Lithium-ion (Li-ion) Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) White Paper is now available to download.
About Quick Tips
We send Quick Tips to the managers and operational professionals on our e-mail list, but please feel free to forward this to others in your organization who you feel may benefit. We would be pleased to add their names to the distribution list. Just let us know at quicktips@aegislimited.com.