How Much Do You Know About Arc Flash Hazards? Take Ferraz Shawmut's Newest Online P.IQ Quiz and Find Out
NEWBURYPORT, Mass. (Aug. 3, 2009) - The monetary cost of a single arc flash incident can easily exceed a million dollars per incident, including medical expenses and the cost of equipment replacement, downtime and insurance. As a global leader in the field of electrical protection, Ferraz Shawmut challenges customers to test their knowledge of Arc Flash Hazards with its newest online P.IQ Quiz.
Participants may access the newest quiz online at us.ferrazshawmut.com/PIQPR. Each month through the end of the year, three winners receive a $100 gas card. No purchase is necessary to enter.
With the educational Protection Intelligence Quotient (P.IQ) program, design engineers, specifiers, electrical professionals and equipment manufacturers discover how much they know about the hazards that can hurt people, equipment and investments.
"The explosive energy of an arcing fault sends more than 2,000 workers to burn centers every year. In most cases, these could have been prevented with the proper knowledge of Arc Flash Hazards & prevention," said Stephen Colvin, Vice President of Marketing at Ferraz Shawmut. "Our innovative P.IQ Quiz gives customers a fun way to test themselves, and hopefully learn something new in the process."
Ferraz Shawmut prides itself on delivering problem-solving products and fuses for reducing Arc Flash energy such as the current-limiting Amp-Trap 2000® fuse family and Electrical Services solutions, including Arc Flash Hazard analysis, short circuit analysis and coordination studies, and electrical safety program audits.
"Based on all the positive feedback we received from the first P.IQ test that ran in 2008, we made a commitment to feature several new tests on a variety of electrical protection topics this year," said Colvin.
The first two P.IQ tests in 2009 were on solar power circuit protection and overvoltage protection. Archived versions of the tests are available at us.ferrazshawmut.com/PIQarchive. The new P.IQ quiz on arc flash hazards is currently running at us.ferrazshawmut.com/PIQPR. An additional test on selective coordination is planned for late fall.
For further details on the PIQ program, please send a request to info@ferrazshawmut.com, or visit us.ferrazshawmut.com/PIQPR. The 2009 program runs through Dec. 31, 2009, with no purchase necessary to enter.
About Ferraz Shawmut
Ferraz Shawmut has been a leader in circuit protection for industry and the electrical market for more than 100 years. With a complete line of current-limiting fuses and accessories, Ferraz Shawmut prides itself on delivering innovative, problem-solving products like the Surge-Trap® SPD, Thermally Protected Metal Oxide Varistor (TPMOV®), the SmartSpot® open-fuse indicator, Amp-Trap 2000® fuses, UltraSafe(TM) fuse holders, and Select-A-Fuse® software. Two of the company's latest innovations are its new line of Amp-Trap® High-Speed Class J (HSJ) fuses, engineered specifically for the protection of today's sensitive electronic motor controllers, and the industry's first line of Finger-Safe Power Distribution Blocks (FSPDBs), delivering the ultimate in safety and ease-of-use when making power connections in electrical panels. Ferraz Shawmut, LLC. is a subsidiary of the Carbone Lorraine Groupe. For more information, contact the company by phone at (978) 462-6662 or visit us.ferrazshawmut.com.
Ferraz Shawmut
374 Merrimac St.
Newburyport, MA 01950
CONTACT:
Stephen Colvin
(978) 465-4870
AGENCY CONTACT:
Carri Prue
(315) 413-4286
cprue@mower.com
