Leadership

Six Steps to Closing The Gaps Most facilities treat electrical safety like a checklist. Get the study. Do the training. Check the box. On paper, it looks like everything has been covered. But in reality, there are gaps between the checkboxes. Equipment changes go unrecorded. Training becomes superficial. Workers rely on labels that no longer match what is behind the panel door. And that is where the risk lives. Nobody dropped the ball. The dots just never get connected. Paul

Most executives do not ignore electrical risk because they are careless. They ignore it because the danger is silent. A facility can operate for years without a serious electrical incident and still be one mistake away from catastrophe. The silence creates overconfidence. Then the luck runs out. I experienced that exact situation in 2012, and it changed my life and outlook as a leader. It is also why I wrote the recent article in NETA World, “From Luck to Leadership: Why Z

At some point, every founder of a services business confronts the same paradox. ​You’ve done the hard thing. You have earned trust the slow way through quality, consistency, and showing up when it matters. Your customers call you because mistakes are expensive. Your employees stay because what you’ve built is worth committing to. ​As the business grows, the very traits that made it work (your personal standards, your relationships, your willingness to carry the load) start to

Guidant Power, a leading provider of electrical safety, reliability, and training services, today announced the acquisition of Morrow Engineering, Inc., a respected electrical engineering firm specializing in facility upgrades, retrofit solutions, lifecycle extension services, and power studies.

As an executive, you make decisions every day about where to invest limited resources. Most of those decisions likely follow a familiar logic: fix what’s broken, improve what’s visible, and invest where returns are obvious. Electrical safety doesn't neatly fit that calculation. Although it's no less crucial to overall workplace safety, its real costs often remain invisible until after an incident occurs. And by then, the cost curve has already spiked. I have a personal reason

Why smart, experienced workers make critical mistakes. and why understanding the three modes of human performance can prevent them.

While electrical accidents are rare, their consequences can be severe. They have one of the highest fatality rates of all industrial accidents, and can bring huge costs in repair and downtime.