Article by:
Corey Hannahs
Being a lifelong electrician myself, I can fully understand how hard it can be to have a system in place that works like a well-oiled machine and feel like it is being upended when I need to incorporate a new change requirement. But rarely do people ever make change for the sake of change. In our world, change is often implemented to make things safer. If you work in the electrical industry, you have an inherent responsibility to perform work that will keep people, and property, as safe as humanly possible. Sometimes that means doing things differently than the way we have become accustomed to, based on implementing procedural or technology-based changes. The 2020 cycle of the NEC incorporated two such changes.