NFPA 79 – Electrical Standard for Industrial Machinery Overview with High Tech Design Safety

NFPA 79 – Electrical Standard for Industrial Machinery Overview with High Tech Design Safety CEO, Steve Barcik Amstel -

Hello I’m Steve Barcik Amstel with High Tech Design Safety. We are a test and certification laboratory providing evaluation of equipment across all industries. Today we are discussing NFPA 79, which is the electrical safety of industrial equipment. NFPA is the National Fire Protection Association in the US and their standards deal with electrical safety to prevent fire and loss in residential, commercial, and industrial facilities. This industrial equipment standard is required to be designed into your e equipment. You may use other similar UL and/or ANSI standards if that applies specifically to your equipment; however, NFPA 79 is one of the primary standards out there that will prove suitability of use for your equipment within the United States.

So for example, if you build a piece of industrial equipment and ship it, when it is installed there may be an electrical inspection at installation. During that electrical inspection, they will be looking for correct nameplates, wire sizing and other things like that, and a third party or filed label sticker on the product indicating that it is compliant and suitable for use. In addition to that label or sticker, that authority having jurisdiction may also request a copy of the report. So you need to be ready if that happens.

Designing your equipment to NFPA 79 and using that standard during design, design reviews and product safety reviews will allow you to be sure that at the point when you need an inspection, certification or a field labeling that it is available.

NFPA 79 has many sections in it and in the future we will to through each of these sections line by line so that you will fully understand the standard and be capable of implementing it within your product and your design process. Then you can go forward and get an evaluation and certification of your equipment and provide it to your end users within the US. There are other similar standards globally, specifically IEC 60204 which are nearly harmonized with NFPA 79 for use for CE marking.

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