Touch Potential Calculations

Because touch potential voltages are determined based on the consideration that something has gone wrong in the supply, it has presumes that a person will be exposed to the fault current, and as such they are highly likely to be aware of receiving an electric shock. So frequently in risk assessments do people expect to see that a risk can be controlled to a point that it can never occur that a consideration of accepting that someone will receive an electric shock may seem like the parties responsible have not worked hard enough to prevent its occurrence.

When it comes to fault current from supply to downstream electrical earthing systems there is already a near worst case scenario happening, and being able to protect human life in the event of direct contact during that fault is a tremendous achievement. Ensuring that people only receive a small electric shock, which would have cost them their lives without a high performance electrical earthing system, means that even if someone is unlucky enough to experience the shock, they are actually very lucky indeed. It is worth considering that instances of people experiencing electric shocks as a result of fault electrical current are incredibly rare, but on those few occasions that something may happen it is Earthing Services’ responsibility to keep those people alive.

Earthing Services engineers have a 100% track record of achieving safe touch voltage potentials for the company’s customers. The company’s customers’ sites represent a standard of quality and safety and that is one of the many reasons that new business finds its way to Earthing Services, so that new customers can also attain a comparable level of safety along with the seal of approval that comes with any electrical earthing system designed by Earthing Services’ excellent engineers.