Earthing design incorporating risk quantification – an expensive overhead or key decision-making tool?

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1750

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CIRED 2019

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3-6 June 2019

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Madrid, Spain

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Yes

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Carman, William (Bill), Bill Carman Consulting, Australia
Palmer, Stephen , Safearth Consulting, Australia

Abstract

The disparity in a range of traditional and contemporary earthing design approaches and the resultant variation in the cost of implementation has been observed by many and has led to a number of studies since the 1960’s, examining the level of risk imposed upon a person by a power system asset in a faulted state. In addition, driven by Work Health & Safety (WH&S) legislation a new safety paradigm is evolving incorporating an explicit requirement to demonstrate due diligence in managing risk imposed upon staff and the public. This paper introduces the findings of the joint Cigre/CIRED working group B3:35 regarding how and why quantified risk analysis (QRA) may be applied to earthing system design.

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AIM

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2019-06-03

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CIRED 2019 Conference

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https://cired-repository.org/handle/20.500.12455/554
http://dx.doi.org/10.34890/777

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2032-9644

ISBN

978-2-9602415-0-1