Grounding System Testing: Simplified Fall-of-Potential and Step-and-Touch Voltage Testing

Logan MerrillIndustry Topics, Summer 2021 Industry Topics

Verifying the functionality and integrity of a grounding system is critical to maintaining a safe workspace. Unfortunately, the tests used to achieve this goal, as well as the standards used to assess them, have required a specialized skillset, often leaving these tests done improperly or not at all. Now, with the industry progressing toward guided testing, new solutions make it …