About Me

I have spent my career working in heavy industry, with much of that time focused in the electrical, instrumentation, and controls field. Throughout that work, safety, risk awareness, and practical learning have remained central to my approach. Over the years, I have seen how easily hazards can develop, how often risks go unrecognized, and how important it is to learn from real-world events.

This blog was created to help people in the electrical and controls professions gain deeper insight into the hazards, incidents, and failures that can occur in real working environments.

Many dangers in electrical and controls work are not always obvious. Risks can be hidden in routine tasks, maintenance, troubleshooting, energization, grounding and bonding issues, control logic interactions, and human factors. Because each of us brings different experience, training, and exposure to the job, a hazard that is clear to one person may be missed by another.

By sharing past events, incidents, and lessons learned, this blog is intended to strengthen awareness, improve judgment, and support safer decisions and work practices. The goal is simple: learn from what has happened before, recognize warning signs earlier, and help prevent similar incidents in the future.

If anyone would like to share a story with this community please feel free to email me.