Electrical Project Management System Functions and Responsibilities
You need to plan, implement and monitor according to these nine functions. This is the internationally accepted approach to electrical project management. The functions and your responsibilities are explained below. 1. Electrical Project Scope Management Initiation: Committing the organisation to begin the next phase of the electrical project. Scope planning: Developing a written scope statement [...]
What is an Electrical Project Management Plan (EPMP)?
The electrical project management plan is the plan by which your electrical project will run. It is a baseline so you have a point of comparison as you work through the electrical project tasks. All electrical projects need to be planned and monitored using the same system of processes. To be able to measure our [...]
Electrical Estimating for Small Contractors
Every Electrical Contractor should have sample estimates and guides for training in not only material take off and pricing but also the productive efficiency of the total business. An excel spread sheet with material pricing and associated labour time taken for each unit of material helps provide a beginning for new estimators and experienced estimators [...]
Electrical Testing Low Voltage LV is Live Work!
Live Work means electrical work performed in circumstances in which the part of electrical equipment the subject of the electrical work is energized. The voltages generally encountered are as described in countries standards and are listed below: Extra Low Voltage ELV – Not exceeding 50 volts AC or 120 volts ripple-free DC Low Voltage LV [...]
Electrical Safety in Mines and Heavy Industries
Is your Electrical System in a Safe Operating Condition? People forget about how important the safe operations of their electrical systems are, especially in mining and heavy industrial areas where the environmental conditions are harsh and unpredictable with an increased variable degree of materials deteriorating due high dust levels, vibrations and above normal temperatures. This [...]
Electrical Safety Questions
Are you finding it harder and harder to get your electrical workers to work safely? Younger electrical workers do not take on the responsibility for their electrical work? The basic electrical training for electrical workers is not addressing electrical safety? Our electrical apprenticeship system is letting the electrical safety our community down? What do we [...]
Electrical Safety Success
I want to discuss the number one difference between safety success – and those that are not. See if you are patterning your safety after the former or the latter. Successful safety both off the job and on the job all have one thing in common – they all have systems, or sets of procedures [...]
What is Electrical Estimating?
Electrical Estimating is not just plucking figures out of the air; it is a process with proven functions and calculations which take into account not only material prices but also the productive efficiency of the total business. Each and every Electrical Engineering and Contracting Business is different with one major variable function called human resources. [...]
Successful Electrical Estimating
Successful estimating both off-the-job and on-the-job all have one thing in common – they all have systems, or sets of procedures that they implement and improved on a regular and consistent basis. In the Electrical Engineering and Contracting Business industry how you manage your human resources is crucial and a major factor that determines success [...]
Electrical Safety Management System
Objective To ensure that systems which promote safe work practices for all electrical workers working on or in the vicinity of electricity are established. To ensure that work conducted on or around electrical conductors or equipment is only carried out by suitable trained and qualified personnel. Local Legislations and Regulations to be fully explained before [...]