When the city of Detroit hosted the biggest sporting event of the year, Super Bowl XL, the Buildings & Safety Engineering Department (B&SED) played a vital role in its safe operation.

Hazard-based product safety standards are now under development, and is likely soon to affect other product safety standards as well as installation codes.

This article is a continuation of what I see as significant changes that are coming in the 2007 revision of the National Electrical Safety Code.