VB Engineering flies a field crew to your site, from Sydney to Perth, captures every bus with ElecTwin and delivers the arc flash study, labels and PPE tables to AS/NZS 4836:2023 and IEEE 1584-2018. The five-stage VB Arc360 program then keeps the study current.
Selected engagements across the VB Group portfolio. ISO 45001 · ISO 9001 · Licensed ETAP · SKM · AutoCAD.
VB Engineering delivers arc flash studies on site in all six Australian states and both mainland territories. A VB field crew flies in for the data walkdown, the network is modelled in ETAP or SKM PowerTools to IEEE 1584-2018, and labels and PPE tables are issued to AS/NZS 4836:2023 for review by the site electrical team.
| State or territory | Main centres served | WHS and electrical safety regulator | Sites VB supports |
|---|---|---|---|
| New South Wales | Sydney, Newcastle, Wollongong | SafeWork NSW | Data centres, BESS, process plants |
| Victoria | Melbourne, Geelong | WorkSafe Victoria · Energy Safe Victoria | Data centres, water utilities, process plants |
| Queensland | Brisbane, Townsville, Gladstone | WorkSafe Queensland · Electrical Safety Office | Solar farms, BESS, process plants |
| Western Australia | Perth, Kwinana | WorkSafe WA | Process plants, utilities, data centres |
| South Australia | Adelaide | SafeWork SA | BESS, solar, water utilities |
| Tasmania | Hobart, Launceston | WorkSafe Tasmania | Process plants, utilities |
| Northern Territory | Darwin | NT WorkSafe | Utilities, process plants |
| Australian Capital Territory | Canberra | WorkSafe ACT | Data centres, commercial switchrooms |
Need an indicative price per bus or the 800 A rule? See arc flash study cost and requirements in Australia. For the full five-stage program, see VB Arc360 in Australia.
An arc flash is an uncontrolled release of electrical energy through air. On Australian sites it most often starts during routine switching, racking or fault finding on a live switchboard, and it releases heat, pressure and molten metal within a fraction of a second.
An arc fault injures a worker during routine switching.
The WorkSafe inspector, insurer and counsel ask for your electrical risk assessment.
Outdated labels, unverified data, lapsed training records.
Negligence exposure, penalties, insurance disputes, prosecution risk.
Safety is not a report. It is a responsibility.
NFPA 70E does not stop at the study. It expects labelling, training, auditing and renewal to follow. VB Arc360 closes the loop · five engineered stages, 72 degrees each, that take your plant from assessed to permanently protected.
Onsite data capture, photographic evidence to the ElecTwin cloud, ETAP modelling, IEC 60909 short circuit, IEEE 1584 incident energy, NFPA 70E risk assessment.
NFPA 70E warning labels engineered, printed, pasted at site in English and the languages of your workforce. Arc flash boundaries painted on the floor.
TeXeT QP PortalNFPA 70E 110.6. VR immersive moduleheadset included. Arc Flash Safety 3D Animated Training Videobranded.
Audit support per NFPA 70E. VijAI PPEAIAI vision platform watches existing CCTV for arc-rated PPE compliance, alerts supervisors, logs audit events.
Annual label + data updates. Year three QP refresher. Year five mandated re-study per NFPA 70E and CEA 2023.
Most brownfield arc flash studies fail at the input layer. Single-line diagrams drift, settings change, cable schedules vanish. We close the gap with a photographic walkdown of every nameplate, every relay HMI setting, every cable schedule, uploaded to the ElecTwin cloud platform. Your engineers approve the evidence before a single calculation runs.
Onsite photo of every data point
Uploaded to ElecTwin
You verify the evidence
ETAP · IEC 60909 · IEEE 1584
NFPA 70E 130.5(H) compliant warning labels, engineered to your bus, printed and physically pasted at site by the VB team. Issued in English plus the languages of your workforce, with VB watermark. Arc flash boundary marking painted on the floor at the same visit.
Real label samples from VB Arc360 deployments.
NFPA 70E 110.6 requires Qualified Persons. VB Arc360 delivers three reinforcing engines · digital certification, immersive simulation, and a branded animated video your workforce sees at every induction.
NFPA 70E 110.6 aligned. Structured online assessments, automated pass and fail criteria, certificates with Safety Hero GOLD, SILVER, BRONZE, Participation tiers. Records that defend you in audits.
Perpetual licence including the VR headset device. Realistic arc flash hazard simulation, PPE selection drills, safe-work-practice scenarios. Risk-free, experiential, memorable. Workers practise the response before they face the risk.
A professionally produced 3D animated arc flash video · about three minutes · customised with your logo and site context. Plays at inductions, toolbox talks and contractor onboarding. Your standard, every single time.
PPEAI is the AI vision platform from VB Group's VijAI suite. It connects to your existing CCTV and verifies arc-rated PPE compliance in real time, in the electrical rooms your study flagged. NFPA 70E requires the employer to audit field work and verify procedures are followed · PPEAI automates that duty.
An arc flash study is a snapshot. Plants change · feeders are added, settings drift, people rotate. VB Arc360 is designed around that reality, with renewal engineered in from day one.
Study · labels · training launch
Annual data + label refresh
Annual data + label refresh
QP refresher cycle · portal renewal
Mandated re-study · AS/NZS 4836 + Worksafe
Many Australian brownfield sites run on single line diagrams that no longer match the switchroom. VB closes that gap on site, before any calculation runs.
Every nameplate, relay setting, cable run and network fault level letter is photographed during the fly-in walkdown and uploaded to ElecTwin. Your site electrical team reviews and approves the evidence before the ETAP or SKM model is built, so the audit trail travels with the study.
The VB team that runs the arc flash study also delivers load flow, short circuit and protection coordination, Qualified Person training, VR safety training, PPE monitoring with VijAI and a digital twin of the switchroom, so an Australian site deals with one accountable engineering partner.
Studies are built in licensed ETAP and SKM PowerTools to IEEE 1584-2018 and IEC 60909, then labelled and documented in line with AS/NZS 4836:2023 and the site safe work procedures, with remote engineering keeping the cost per bus competitive.
Australian arc flash work sits under the model WHS Regulations, which place the duty to manage electrical risk on the person conducting the business, and AS/NZS 4836:2023, the standard for safe work on or near low-voltage electrical installations. IEEE 1584-2018 is the accepted method for incident energy and IEC 60909 for short-circuit current. Above 15 kV, network operators apply ENA NENS 09, and battery DC systems follow AS/NZS 5139. Arc-rated PPE cannot be defensibly selected without an incident energy study.
Real VB engagements across 21+ countries · arc flash field work, photographed at site.
Wistwin digital twin QR asset tag installed on Transformer-2 100KVA at a Bayer plant · the renewal hook that connects VB Arc360 to lifecycle digital twin · real field photo">Four written commitments that make the compliance duties of this scope enforceable. Each one is part of every VB Arc360 engagement.
Draft report within 15 business days of written SLD approval. Schedule lives on the project portal where you see it, and slippage caused by us is reported by us, first.
If your team corrects any input data within 30 days of the final report, we recalculate affected buses and re-issue the labels at no cost. Accuracy is our risk, not yours.
When a regulator, insurer or corporate auditor reviews this study, we stand with you · documentation, methodology defence and engineer time, included.
Study deliverables are warranted for 12 months. Any error or omission attributable to our engineering is corrected free of charge, with affected labels and tables re-issued.
Tell us your plant, your study history, and your timeframe. A named Chartered Engineer responds within 24 hours · with an evidence-grade scope and anonymised Australian case references.
Tell us about your plant. A Chartered Engineer replies within 24 hours.
A large process plant in Western Australia with a 33 kV ring main.
Outcome: fly-in walkdown, ETAP model to IEEE 1584-2018, labels and PPE tables issued in line with AS/NZS 4836, and a five-year re-study calendar set with the site electrical team.
Tell us where in Australia you need arc-flash compliance engineered. A Chartered Engineer responds inside 24 hours.
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