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About ESCI Inc.

ESCI was founded in 1990 to provide safety courses for electrical utility workers. Since then ESCI has developed a staff of twelve (and we are still growing) nationally recognized professionals providing a complete package of services including:

• Safety services
• T & D training
• Consulting services
• AMR / AMI consulting
• Safety standards development
• Work methods development
• Safety audits of utility programs and facilities
• Substation maintenance management programs
• Expert witness services for litigation proceedings
• Live line hot stick, rubber glove and bare-hand work methods, and
  training from voltages of 4 kV to 765 kV
• HAZMAT consulting and training services
• Developing and implementing emergency response, terrorism response plans, and security audits
• Development of test programs to qualify tools, equipment, and systems for utility applications
• On-site equipment safety inspections
• Consulting and testing services for tools and equipment meeting U.S. and international standards
• Forensic engineering of accidents for litigation preparation
• Consulting services to manufacturers and suppliers for equipment design and
  qualification for utility applications
• Codes application and interpretation assistance

Our team of highly experienced journeymen, engineers, codes experts, managers, instructors, consultants, and trainers are recognized across the country as the leaders in the electrical industry. Our staff provides consulting services to utilities, contractors, general industry, manufacturers, Federal OSHA and State OSHA programs. ESCI’s staff collectively totals more than 430 years of knowledge and expertise gained from industry across the nation.

Our staff joined ESCI from some of the largest utility organizations in the country. Each staff member has many years of technical, hands-on, trade specific, supervisory and management experience. We have held positions as general managers, engineering managers, test lab directors, line superintendents, line and substation foremen, directors of safety, international training instructors, distribution, transmission and substation design, construction, maintenance and operations technicians and managers.

ESCI currently provides on-going safety services to more than 40 private and public utilities, employing more than 4,100 employees across eight western states. ESCI serves some of our customers as their “Safety and Training Department” providing all the services an “in-house” safety and training department might offer, including safety training, field audits, updates to written safety manuals and policies, rule and regulation interpretation and application, and consultation. ESCI also provides industry training courses, consulting services and expert witness services.

ESCI’s professionals staff are active members and chairpersons to many of the electric utility organizations, associations, committees, work groups, and task forces including:

National Electrical Safety Code (NESC)

NESC C-2 Subcommittee 8 “Work Methods”

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

Power Engineering Society (PES)

Engineering in the Safety, Maintenance, and Operations of Lines Subcommittee (ESMO)

Live Work Guide Working Group

Conductive Clothing Task Force

Fall Protection Task Force

Insulator Cleaning Task Force

Worker in the Air Gap Working Group

Maximum Transient Overvoltage Task Force

Work Methods Working Group

Broken Insulator Task Force

IEEE 1048 Grounding Task Force

ESMO/NESC Coordinating Working Group

Mechanical Equipment Task Force

Underground Grounding Task Force

International Electric Commission (IEC)

United States Representative to IEC TC 78

Western Energy Institute (WEI)

American Society of Safety Engineers

National Safety Council

United States Federal OSHA committees

OSHA 1910.269 committee

OSHA 1926 Subpart V committee

American National Standards Institute (ANSI)

American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), F18 Committee

FR Clothing Committee

Grounding Equipment Committee

Insulated Tools Committee

Insulated Blanket and Cover-Up Committee

Quad States Instructors Association

National Utilities Safety and Education Association (NUSEA)

IEEE Industry Applications Society