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ConEdison of New York

ConEdison of New York has performed a series of testing at The Kema Laboratories in Philadelphia. ConEdison recently spent 4 years and $4 million dollars doing testing to examine the protective performance of a wide variety of safety equipment including protective clothing and equipment. At the Kema Laboratories they were able to recreate real and potential exposures to help better understand how to protect their employees.

ConEdison’s testing was revolutionary in that they performed testing outside of laboratory conditions and were able to re-create real world live electric arc flash exposures. This first-of-its-kind testing was a major advancement forward in starting to understand the severe nature of an electric arc flash and all of the additional elements not seen in laboratory testing including underground confined exposures, overhead exposures and molten metal exposure from equipment.

Over the 4 years of testing ConEdison opened the doors of the testing facility and information generated for other electric utility companies, energy companies and electrical contractors to learn and help become educated on the dangers of an electric arc flash and how to better protect their employees.

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