Electrical Safety Talks
Electrical Safety Talks features Steve Quiett and John Welch sharing real-world lessons on electrical safety, covering safe work practices, arc flash protection, grounding, and code compliance. Their videos deliver practical, experience-based guidance to help you reduce risk, protect workers, and maintain safe electrical systems in any environment.
Electrical Safety Talks
Latest Episodes
Episode 17: Every Hand Went Up When Asked About Arc Flash
In a room of three hundred and thirty data center professionals, a panelist asked who had an arc flash on first time energization in the last twelve months, and nearly every hand went up. Daniel Henderson and Steve Quiett break down why the dat...
Episode 16: She Invented a Life Saving Rescue Device and Did Not Want a Dime for Doing It
Renee Graves joins Steve Quiett to talk about the Escape Strap, a contact release device she developed that requires no metal, no dielectric testing, and no searching for a Shepherd's hook that disappeared years ago. We cover how the idea was b...
Episode 15: The Electrical Workforce Math That Should Alarm Every Safety Professional
Paul of Guided Power joins John Welch to break down the skilled labor crisis hitting electrical maintenance departments hard, losing more than two experienced workers for every one coming in, maintenance teams being led by non-technical manager...
Episode 14: 74 Percent of Electrical Deaths Are Incidental Contact and Here Is What That Means
Derek Vixtel of eHazard, master electrician turned safety educator joins Steve Quiett to break down why 74% of electrical fatalities involve incidental contact and not planned energized work, why the "we don't do energized work" myth is one of ...
Episode 13: Codes Lag Innovation by 30 Years and Your Workers Are the Ones at Risk
Lanny Floyd, a founding member of the Electrical Safety Workshop who has attended all 33 events since 1992 joins Steve Quiett to break down why electrical experts and safety professionals need each other, why one arc flash PPE program ran for 3...