Newsletter
Summer 2010
Presidential Views
James Shivar Jr. 2010 President
The North Carolina Ellis Cannady Chapter of the International Association of Electrical Inspectors will hold its annual meeting in conjunction with the 2010 9th Quadrennial COCO meeting, August 1 – 4, 2010 at the Hilton Wilmington Riverside in Wilmington, N.C. We will be installing our 2010/2011 association officers and voting on some proposed amendments pertaining to (Article VI – Board of Directors and Officers) of our bylaws at our business meeting to held on Monday afternoon, August 2nd .
The North Carolina Ellis Cannady Chapter COCO Committee members have worked hard and diligently in
conjunction with the other North Carolina Inspector Associations committee members and the NC Fire
Marshals Association to be able to present this program for you. Continuing education sessions will
be offered for all the various trade code enforcement officials that attend, as well as a banquet and golf
tournament that will be included as part of this meeting program.
Please visit our web-site at www.nciaei.org for further details and any questions that you may have about
this meeting. We look forward to hosting this event here in Wilmington, and hope to see you there!
Jimmy Shivar, Chapter President
230 Government Center Drive Suite 110
Wilmington, NC 28403
910-798-7205
Industry Events
NC Council of Code Officials
(Also the NC Chapter IAEI Annual Meeting)
Aug 1-4
Hilton Riverside, Wilmington NC
Photovoltaic Systems and the 2008 Electrical Code
One Day Seminar
Conference Center at Forsyth Medical Center
Charter & Volunteer Hall
3333 Silas Creek Parkway
Winston-Salem NC 27103
IAEI Southern Section
Savannah Marriott Riverfront
October 10-13, 2010
Savannah GA
See our website for more information and directions & maps: www.nciaei.org. (Meetings page).
NCIAEI Electronic Newsletter
Our fourth quarterly newsletter was sent this Spring. In addition to our quarterly newsletters, we have
also sent out special announcements for Continuing Education classes. Our mailing list has been
growing, and sending out the special announcements for Continuing Education classes has helped our
attendance. Join our mailing list – go to www.nciaei.org (Contact us page).
New Faces and Places
New NCBEEC Board Member – Dr. John Kelley. Governor Perdue has appointed Dr. John Kelly
to the NCBEEC (North Carolina Board of Examiners of Electrical Contractors), succeeding
Dr. Mitchell. Dr. Kelley is Chairperson & Associate Professor Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, and has a Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark,
Delaware, 1988, and a B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, 1981. D
r. Kelley can be contacted at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NC A&T
University, Greensboro. See the website version of our newsletter for more details, or go to
www.eng.ncat.edu/dept/ecen/jkelly.htm.
Kenneth Morrison has taken a position as an Inspector in Kernersville. He’s been in the electrical
field since 1985, worked for an electrical contractor in Oak Ridge for 10 years then moved to Surf City
where he started a contracting business. In 2005 Kenneth was hired by Pender County as a building
inspector. “When I saw the job opening in Kernersville I was ready to move back home. I feel like I made
a great move”.
Job Opportunities
City of Raleigh Zoning Inspector – See our website for details: www.nciaei.org, go to the “Jobs” page.
Contact us and advertise your job – we will send a special email announcement
If you are looking for a job, advertise with us for free! We are starting a new section on our website
and electronic newsletters: Inspectors available for hire.
Retirements
Roger Carroll has retired from the City of Raleigh Inspections
Don Hursey is retiring from Durham City/County Inspections effective July 31st
Frank Carter has recently retired from New Hanover County Inspections
Darryl Bryant retired from Charlotte Mecklenburg Inspections on June 1st.
Don Hursey, Frank Carter and Darryl Bryant are all past recipients of the NC IAEI Inspector of the
Year award. We thank all these gentlemen and Chapter members for their dedication and service to
our communities, our State and their diligence in the profession of electrical safety.
Bereaved
James Steele’s mother passed away on May 25, 2010. Lillian Katherine Biggs Steele, age 96, of Castle
Hayne, died Tuesday, May 25, 2010, at home. Katherine was born on January 6, 1914, in Winston-Salem,
North Carolina, daughter of Atlantic Coastline Railroad Dispatcher, the late Benjamin F. Biggs and Mary
Lowery Biggs. Please keep the Steele family In your thoughts and prayers.
Sick and Shut in
Collette Mullis, Gary Mullis’s wife, had to undergo an unexpected surgery to relieve pressure on her spinal
cord. She is doing well so far, please keep her in your thoughts and prayers. We wish her a speedy recovery.
Jim Carpenter is doing great after his heart surgery. Some of our Chapter members saw him in Las Vegas
at the NFPA conference, after his doctor cleared him to attend that meeting last week .Robbie Brooks reports
that Jim looks great and is feeling great.
Behind the Scenes
A special thanks goes out to Joe Starling for his help on the Public Relations and Publicity Committee. Joe manned the chapter table at our Eastern NC Meetings in Williamston, Wrightsville beach, and Goldsboro. We appreciate him taking the time to attend these meetings and sell memberships, promotional items and do the paperwork needed.
Also, thanks again to our Education Committee, all our instructors and everyone else who worked hard to make these classes happen.
Electrical Incidents
May was proclaimed as Electrical Safety Month by Governor Purdue. On June 30th, 2009, She also signed another bill that reinforced the exemption of “Industrial Machinery” from electrical safety inspections. (House Bill 749, again showing affected section in G.S. 143-138(b)). If this seems contradictory you might recall that our NC Legislature and former Governor initially signed this safety exemption into law. Our last newsletter reported the death of Tony Ballew in Wilson NC from a piece of Industrial Machinery.
Please keep a look out for future electrical incidents on commercial projects. It’s likely that many of these are never reported, or are relegated to the back of the newspaper. You can report any incident on our website “Contact” page. Your identity will be kept confidential. www.nciaei.org, go to the “Contact” page.
Safety Reminder
Lockout Tagout Procedures
The following simple lockout procedure is provided to assist employers in developing their procedures so they meet the requirements of this standard. When the energy isolating devices are not lockable, tagout may be used, provided the employer complies with the provisions of the standard which require additional training and more rigorous periodic inspections. When tagout is used and the energy isolating devices are lockable, the employer must provide full employee protection (see paragraph (c)(3)) and additional training and more rigorous periodic inspections are required. For more complex systems, more comprehensive procedures may need to be developed, documented, and utilized.
Purpose
This procedure establishes the minimum requirements for the lockout of energy isolating devices whenever maintenance or servicing is done on machines or equipment. It shall be used to ensure that the machine or equipment is stopped, isolated from all potentially hazardous energy sources and locked out before employees perform any servicing or maintenance where the unexpected energization or start-up of the machine or equipment or release of stored energy could cause injury.
Compliance With This Program
All employees are required to comply with the restrictions and limitations imposed upon them during the use of lockout. The authorized employees are required to perform the lockout in accordance with this procedure. All employees, upon observing a machine or piece of equipment which is locked out to perform servicing or maintenance shall not attempt to start, energize, or use that machine or equipment.
Sequence of Lockout
(1) Notify all affected employees that servicing or maintenance is required on a machine or equipment and that the machine or equipment must be shut down and locked out to perform the servicing or maintenance.
Authorized employee shall refer to the company procedure to identify the type and magnitude of the energy that the machine or equipment utilizes, shall understand the hazards of the energy, and shall know the methods to control the energy.
(3) If the machine or equipment is operating, shut it down by the normal stopping procedure (depress the stop button, open switch, close valve, etc.).
(4) De-activate the energy isolating device(s) so that the machine or equipment is isolated from the energy source(s).
(5) Lock out the energy isolating device(s) with assigned individual lock(s).
(6) Stored or residual energy (such as that in capacitors, springs, elevated machine members, rotating flywheels, hydraulic systems, and air, gas, steam, or water pressure, etc.) must be dissipated or restrained by methods such as grounding, repositioning, blocking, bleeding down, etc.
(7) Ensure that the equipment is disconnected from the energy source(s) by first checking that no personnel are exposed, then verify the isolation of the equipment by operating the push button or other normal operating control(s) or by testing to make certain the equipment will not operate.
Caution: Return operating control(s) to neutral or "off" position after verifying the isolation of the equipment.
(8) The machine or equipment is now locked out.
Restoring Equipment to Service.
When the servicing or maintenance is completed and the machine or equipment is ready to return to normal operating condition, the following steps shall be taken.
(1) Check the machine or equipment and the immediate area around the machine to ensure that nonessential items have been removed and that the machine or equipment components are operationally intact.
(2) Check the work area to ensure that all employees have been safely positioned or removed from the area.
(3) Verify that the controls are in neutral.
(4) Remove the lockout devices and reenergize the machine or equipment.
Note: The removal of some forms of blocking may require reenergization of the machine before safe removal.
(5) Notify affected employees that the servicing or maintenance is completed and the machine or equipment is ready for use.
(OSHA) 54 FR 36687, Sept. 1, 1989 as amended at 54 FR 42498, Oct. 17, 1989; 55 FR 38685, Sept. 20, 1990; 61 FR 5507, Feb. 13, 1996]
Product Safety
Check to make sure the product Listing is correct. New regulations require the specific safety Standard number or equipment category on the label.
If there is any doubt after inspecting the label and markings, you can report irregularities to the testing laboratory to see if the label is counterfeit, or if their license to label product has been suspended. All the testing labs have areas on their websites and phone numbers to report suspect products. Recently, a man was arrested and charged with placing counterfeit certification labels on electric signs in Boca Raton, FL.
Code Enactments and Activity
Recent code developments and changes will be discussed during our meeting in August, including recent news on regulations for carbon monoxide detectors and other issues from the latest NCBCC meeting. Attend the COCO meeting August 1-4 in Wilmington NC to keep current on codes and changes that affect us here in the State.
Continuing Education with NC IAEI
August 1-4, 2010 on Wilmington is the quadrennial NC Council of Code Officials at the Hilton Wilmington Riverside hotel. This meeting represents two2 8 hour sessions of Continuing Education classes for Inspectors and Contractors. For more information and map, please visit our website www.nciaei.org.
August 24, 2010 in Winston Salem. We will be providing a top quality Code presentation by John Wiles on: PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS AND THE 2008 NATIONAL ELECTRICAL CODE
To register, please log onto: www.nciaei.org to download all information and forms. If you need further assistance, please contact Mary Higgins at 919-733-9042 ext. 205 or maryh@ncbeec.org.
NEC Continuing Education Classes for 2009-2010. Our continuing education classes for 2009-2010 were a great success! Thanks to all those who have attended and registered for the 2010 season, and a special thanks to our instructors. Visit our chapter website for updates on continuing education. Remember the importance of contact hours, and the great benefit students receive with a live instructor and classroom interaction. The next opportunities for Continuing Education are the COCO meeting and the special class on PV Systems. Also, we will be offering classes around the State starting in November.
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