Martin Technical

Directions Website

Martin Technical Martin Technical provides safety and efficiency services. Our experts empower industrial plants and Let the experts help you find your solution!

Martin Technical’s Safety & Efficiency Services are ranked #1 across the globe as being the most efficient, accurate and professional safety service provider today. Martin Technical’s expertise and knowledge for industrial safety and efficiency solutions include Lockout Tagout, Arc Flash, Electrical Safety, Risk Assessments, Training, Machine Safety & Consulting Services.

Your lockout program covers your employees. The contractor in the panel today is working to theirs.OSHA 1910.147 puts th...
10/11/2026

Your lockout program covers your employees. The contractor in the panel today is working to theirs.

OSHA 1910.147 puts the obligation on both sides to exchange procedures, and it is the step most often handled with a handshake at the gate. Two programs, two sets of locks, two ideas about who is authorized on that equipment.

The fix is not complicated, it is just easy to skip. Walk the isolation points together, agree whose locks go on and in what order, and make sure both crews know who to find before anything comes off.

Learn more: https://vist.ly/5mwxr

Four pages of text is a procedure people skim. A photo of the actual disconnect is a procedure people follow.Someone sta...
10/10/2026

Four pages of text is a procedure people skim. A photo of the actual disconnect is a procedure people follow.

Someone standing in front of a machine is trying to match words on a page to hardware in front of them. Every gap in that translation is a place to guess. Picture-based procedures close it: this breaker, in this panel, photographed where it actually lives, in the order the steps happen.

It matters most for the people with the least context. A new hire. A contractor. Someone covering a line they do not normally run.

Learn more: https://vist.ly/5mudz

10/09/2026

A procedure that says "open the main disconnect" is only useful if exactly one thing in the building answers to that name.

Serialized labels on every isolation point remove the guesswork. Each breaker, valve and disconnect carries its own non-repeating identifier, and the procedure calls it by that identifier. The technician stops matching a description to a room full of similar grey boxes and starts matching a number to a number.

It also makes verification auditable. "Isolated the feeder" is a claim. "Locked ISO-0412" is a record.

Learn more: https://vist.ly/5mrgn

10/08/2026

The panel looked fine. The camera did not agree.

An infrared scan finds what a visual inspection structurally cannot: a connection that is still conducting, still closed, still passing every eyeball test, and running well hotter than the two beside it.

That temperature difference is the early warning. Loose or corroded terminations add resistance, resistance makes heat, and heat accelerates the degradation that made it loose in the first place. Left alone it ends as a failed conductor or a fire, usually at the least convenient moment.

Caught on a scan, it is a torque wrench and ten minutes.

Learn more: https://vist.ly/5mkmi

Run to failure is a maintenance strategy. It is just an expensive one you did not choose deliberately.Most plants land t...
10/08/2026

Run to failure is a maintenance strategy. It is just an expensive one you did not choose deliberately.

Most plants land there by drift rather than decision. The PM schedule was built around whatever the last person set up, equipment got added without being added to the plan, and the intervals stopped matching how hard anything actually runs.

A reliability-based approach asks a different question: which assets would hurt most if they stopped without warning, and what does the condition data on those actually say. Criticality drives frequency. Test results drive the work order. The gear that matters gets attention proportional to what it would cost you.

The goal is not more maintenance. It is maintenance aimed at the right equipment.

Learn more: https://vist.ly/5min5

10/07/2026

A non-contact tester tells you it found voltage. It never tells you there is not any.

Pen testers are good at what they are built for: a quick indication that something is live. They are the wrong instrument for proving absence of voltage, because a negative result has too many innocent explanations. A dead battery. A shielded conductor. The wrong sensitivity setting. The tip not close enough.

Absence of voltage gets proven with a rated meter, phase to phase and phase to ground, with the meter confirmed live before and after.

Seeing a pen tester come out at that step is worth stopping the job for.

Learn more: https://vist.ly/5mfg7

The periodic inspection is not a paperwork check. It is a check on whether anyone can still follow the procedure.OSHA wa...
10/07/2026

The periodic inspection is not a paperwork check. It is a check on whether anyone can still follow the procedure.

OSHA wants an annual inspection of energy control procedures, done by someone other than the employees using them, with the authorized employees present. The point is to watch the procedure get used and find the gap between what is written and what happens.

That is where the real findings live. A step referencing a disconnect that was relocated. An isolation point now behind a new guard. A sequence everyone quietly reordered because the written one never worked.

When did someone last watch one of yours get used?

Learn more: https://vist.ly/5mdf2

10/06/2026

Most internally written procedures isolate the electricity and stop.

Electrical is the source everyone remembers, because it is the one with a disconnect and a lock. The ones written out of internally produced procedures are the quiet ones: gravity holding a ram up, residual motion in a flywheel, thermal energy in a jacket, capacitors still carrying charge after the panel went dark.

None of those need a fault to hurt someone. They just need the procedure to not mention them.

Learn more: https://vist.ly/5ma8m

Grounding gets treated as belt and suspenders. On a high-voltage system it is the thing standing between a worker and a ...
10/06/2026

Grounding gets treated as belt and suspenders. On a high-voltage system it is the thing standing between a worker and a line that gets re-energized.

Herzig Engineering, our parent company, has set new dates for its 2-Day High-Voltage Qualified Electrical Worker Training: October 14-15, live online. 16 hours covering arc flash safety plus live switching, system grounding, and isolation, with QEW certification on completion.

It is open to anyone exposed to high voltage, not only the people doing the switching.

DM us for a $200 discount code.

Register: https://vist.ly/5m8ds

10/05/2026

Arc flash gets the attention. Shock is what kills more people.

They are two different hazards with two different boundaries, and only one of them is on most labels in a readable way. The arc flash boundary is about incident energy and thermal injury. The shock boundaries, limited and restricted approach, are about distance from exposed energized parts and who is allowed to cross them.

A worker who has memorized the arc flash boundary and nothing else has half the picture. Plenty of fatal contacts happen at voltages well under the ones people treat as dangerous.

Learn more: https://vist.ly/5m5ct

Address

Louisville, CO
80002

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Martin Technical posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Shortcuts

Share

Category