Post Disaster Electrical Equipment Assessment

When electrical systems are damaged in a natural or man-made disaster, electricians need to make critical decisions about the damaged electrical equipment's ability to be salvaged or not. This checklist is intended to highlight and simplify key aspects of this decision-making process and builds off of recommendations in Annex K of NFPA 70B, Standard for Electrical Equipment Maintenance (2023 edition). The numbers in parenthesis refer to the sections within NFPA 70B. This checklist is not a part of the requirements of NFPA 70B.