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Power Failure Risk Assessment

Jan. 30, 2017
Power outage—two words that keep or wake you up at night. Rather than tossing and turning or imagining disaster scenarios, prepare for power outages by assessing the risk in your power architecture and protecting critical systems to lessen the impact of short duration events. To ensure you are prepared to take action in the event of an outage, it’s best to understand which systems are at most risk. For reference, we’ve created an example of a risk assessment grid using an average hospital environment.

Power outage—two words that keep or wake you up at night. Rather than tossing and turning or imagining disaster scenarios, prepare for power outages by assessing the risk in your power architecture and protecting critical systems to lessen the impact of short duration events. To ensure you are prepared to take action in the event of an outage, it’s best to understand which systems are at most risk. For reference, we’ve created an example of a risk assessment grid using an average hospital environment. The results reveal some obvious areas for power protection investment and help weigh cost versus safety.

Complete the form and hit the Submit button to download a copy of an example risk assessment grid.

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