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Electrical Safety Blog
Learn about the latest electrical safety, compliance and maintenance best practices.
Written by Guidant engineers and electrical training experts.
Leadership


How to Build an Electrical Safety Program: A Seven-Step Guide for Facility Managers
Electrical safety is not just a task list. It is an interconnected system that works together to keep your facilities running and your people safe every day.

Paul Decker
Mar 307 min read


The Danger of Silence in Electrical Safety
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

Paul Decker
Mar 232 min read


You Built Something Great. Here’s What Comes Next.
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

Paul Decker
Mar 25 min read


Guidant Power Expands Electrical Engineering and Power Studies Capabilities with Acquisition of Morrow Engineering
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.

GP News Team
Feb 163 min read


When Accidents Decide For You
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

Paul Decker
Jan 54 min read


“I Think...”: How Smart People Slip into High-Risk Thinking
Why smart, experienced workers make critical mistakes. and why understanding the three modes of human performance can prevent them.

Paul Decker
Nov 24, 20255 min read


How Good Luck Kills: The Electrical Safety Illusion
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.

Paul Decker
Aug 25, 20254 min read
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