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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.

Herzig Engineering’s secure client portal offers a centralized hub for managing your electrical safety program. With eas...
10/15/2026

Herzig Engineering’s secure client portal offers a centralized hub for managing your electrical safety program. With easy access to reports, labels, and compliance data, you’ll always stay ahead.

Portal Benefits:
-Quick access to critical safety information
-Simplified reporting for multi-site operations
-Enhanced collaboration and transparency
-Self-paced online training

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10/14/2026

Warning and Danger are not two words for the same thing on an arc flash label.

The header follows the hazard. Where the incident energy is within the range that arc-rated PPE can protect against, the label carries Warning. Where it exceeds what PPE is rated to handle, it carries Danger, and the honest reading of that label is that the task should not be done energized at all.

Which means a worker who treats both headers as "be careful" has lost the one piece of information the label exists to convey.

If your labels all say the same thing, they are decoration.

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Our High-Voltage Qualified Electrical Worker session runs today and tomorrow, and the first hour is always the same conv...
10/14/2026

Our High-Voltage Qualified Electrical Worker session runs today and tomorrow, and the first hour is always the same conversation.

Someone says they have been switching gear for fifteen years. They have, and they are good at it. What they have not had is a structured account of why the sequence is the sequence, what the protective device upstream is actually going to do, and where the boundaries came from.

That is the difference between experience and qualification. Experience teaches you what usually happens. Qualification teaches you what the system can do on the day it does not behave.

Sixteen hours, NFPA 70E-based, QEW certification on completion.

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10/13/2026

A breaker in the off position is a claim. The meter is the proof.

An electrically safe work condition is not a state you assume. It is a state you verify. That means testing for absence of voltage at the point of work, not at the disconnect, and proving the meter itself on a known live source before and after. Phase to phase. Phase to ground. Every conductor you are about to put a hand on.

The step people skip is the second live check. If the meter failed between your reading and the work, you never find out. You just carry a false zero into the enclosure with you.

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Most lockout training pictures one worker, one machine, one lock. Most maintenance days don't look like that.A shutdown ...
10/13/2026

Most lockout training pictures one worker, one machine, one lock. Most maintenance days don't look like that.

A shutdown puts mechanics, electricians, and a contractor crew on the same line. A repair started on day shift gets finished by nights. A lock is still hanging on a disconnect after its owner went home. Every hand-off is a place where energy control can quietly slip.

Our new blog covers what OSHA 1910.147 requires when more than one person is involved:
• Group lockout and the lockbox method
• Shift changes: lock on before lock off
• Contractors, and whose procedure governs
• Removing a lock when its owner isn't on site

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10/12/2026

An arc flash is not a big spark. It is a pressure wave with a fireball attached to it.

The thermal side gets the attention because burns are what people picture. The blast is the part that throws a worker across a room, ruptures eardrums, and turns panel covers and molten copper into shrapnel. Both happen in the same fraction of a second, from the same fault, and arc-rated clothing only answers one of them.

That is the argument for distance and de-energization over gearing up. PPE is the last layer, not the plan.

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Two days out. Our High-Voltage Qualified Electrical Worker Training runs October 14-15, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM CDT, live onl...
10/12/2026

Two days out. Our High-Voltage Qualified Electrical Worker Training runs October 14-15, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM CDT, live online. 16 hours, NFPA 70E-based, QEW certification on completion.

Registration closes October 13.

DM us today for $200 off before it does.

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A padlock on a disconnect is the visible part of lockout, which is why it gets treated as the whole of it. What actually...
10/11/2026

A padlock on a disconnect is the visible part of lockout, which is why it gets treated as the whole of it. What actually protects someone is everything around it: knowing every energy source feeding that machine, isolating them in an order that does not create a hazard on the way, releasing stored energy, and verifying at the point of work rather than at the panel.

Electrical is the one that gets locked. Hydraulic pressure, pneumatic charge, springs under tension and suspended loads are the ones that get remembered afterward.

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10/09/2026

An arc flash study is an engineering calculation. Not everyone selling one is doing the engineering.

The study sets incident energy, boundaries and PPE levels for every piece of gear in the building, and those numbers get printed on a label a worker will trust without checking. Getting them wrong in the optimistic direction is worse than having no label, because the crew gears up to a rating that does not match the hazard.

That is why the work belongs with a licensed electrical engineer who can stand behind the model, the data collection and the protective device settings that drive it. Ask who is sealing the report before you ask what it costs.

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Electrical injuries at work are supposed to be trending down. They went the other way.Nonfatal electrical injuries serio...
10/09/2026

Electrical injuries at work are supposed to be trending down. They went the other way.

Nonfatal electrical injuries serious enough to cost days away from work climbed from 3,260 in 2021-2022 to 5,180 in 2023-2024. ESFI puts that at a 59% increase in two years, drawn from BLS and OSHA data. Over the longer run, 2,070 workers have been killed by electricity since 2011.

A jump that fast is not a training problem on its own. It tracks facilities adding load, adding equipment, and running gear harder than the study that once described it. The hazard changed. The paperwork often did not.

If your incident energy numbers were calculated before the last few years of expansion, they are describing a plant that no longer exists.

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8201 NW 97th Terrace
Kansas City, MO
64153

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Monday 8am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 8am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 8am - 4:30pm
Thursday 8am - 4:30pm
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