Electrical Grounding Audits
The proactive approach to electrical system care.
Proper grounding and bonding systems are critical for keeping your facility and workers safe. Just like all systems, your electrical system needs proper care and maintenance to continue supporting your operations. Ground resistance and continuity testing can uncover potential failures in the grounding system, and our experienced team can help you resolve these issues. A grounding audit from Interstates will leave you with steps to avoid lost production time, enhance machine longevity, protect your employees, and give you peace of mind.
Safety
We make sure there’s a good path to ground for energy to dissipate, avoiding dangerous electrical shocks and protecting your workers.
Prevention
Grounding audits are an important part of electrical preventative maintenance programs and help keep equipment like metal detectors and motor bearings in working condition.
Reliability
Having a good ground connection makes equipment and instruments work properly.
Keep Your Crew Safe
Electrical shocks from a fault can range from a minor scare to devastating loss of life. Grounding audits can help prevent this concern from happening. With a thorough system assessment and electrical troubleshooting, we’ll find problems in your grounding system that cause potential hazards. Our grounding system evaluation will leave you with measures you can take to improve your system.
When you’ve corrected the issues our team finds, you will have peace of mind knowing you protected your employees by making their workspace safer.
Increase Machine Longevity
Your equipment may be degrading without you knowing it, and without proactive maintenance, these situations are easily missed. A poor ground connection can lead to motors pitting or fried electrical equipment.
During a grounding audit, our team conducts ground resistance and bonding testing to find static buildup and identify high resistance issues on your system. By identifying known grounding points such as nearby metal, gear, or ground whips, we can find issues and give you a plan to fix them. You’ll have equipment that lasts longer, allowing your plant to remain in production.
Improve Operational Reliability
Grounding audits ensure that electrical systems and equipment are properly grounded, which helps prevent electrical failures and subsequent production shutdowns. By identifying and addressing potential grounding issues, these audits improve the reliability of electrical systems, reducing the likelihood of downtime and saving time and money in the long run.
Grounding Severity Guidelines
Determining Your Ohm Readings
There’s a purpose to rules, that's why the NEC and IEEE set limits for ground testing. We’ll report the ohm value of each test point and identify the severity of each reading. See the table for Interstates' recommended readings.
Example Report
See Our Work - Steps For an Improved Grounding System
Every site is different, but the goal is the same, to keep your team and equipment safe from a potential fault. In our grounding audit reports, we walk you through the issues identified at each plant and our recommended solutions. It’s a report to leave you feeling confident in what’s next after the evaluation.
Talk To An Expert
A grounding audit can help identify potential safety hazards and improve the reliability of your electrical system, reducing the risk of costly downtime due to electrical failure. We offer professional grounding audit services to help ensure your system is properly grounded and functioning at peak efficiency. Contact us today for a no-obligation consultation and take the first step towards a safer, more reliable electrical system.