NFPA 70, 70B and 70E
NEC, NFPA 70B and NFPA 70E Services for Your Facility
Stratos Electric builds and runs NFPA 70B maintenance programs, labels equipment for arc flash under NFPA 70E, and installs and reviews to the NEC, for facilities across the Austin metro.
Three standards, one contractor for the electrical
These three NFPA documents cover how electrical systems are installed, how they are maintained, and how people work on them safely. We handle the electrical side of all three.
NFPA 70 (NEC)
How it is installed
The National Electrical Code is the installation code Texas cities adopt. Editions differ by city: Austin enforces the 2026 NEC, Round Rock the 2023 NEC.
NFPA 70B
How it is maintained
The standard for electrical equipment maintenance. Since the 2023 edition it is written as a standard, built around a documented electrical maintenance program.
NFPA 70E
How people work on it safely
The standard for electrical safety in the workplace: shock and arc flash risk, equipment labels, PPE, lockout and the written electrical safety program.
NFPA 70B electrical maintenance programs
NFPA 70B is built around a documented electrical maintenance program (EMP): a program coordinator, a register of the equipment, a condition assessment of each piece, maintenance intervals, and records of the work.
We build that program for your facility in Stratos Nexus, then our crews perform or coordinate the maintenance it schedules. Every visit is recorded against the equipment, so the program, the schedule and the records stay in one place.
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Equipment register. Every panel, transformer, switch and major load mapped and recorded.
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Condition assessment. Each item rated for physical condition, criticality and environment.
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Maintenance plan. An interval for each task, with the next due date.
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The work and the records. Our crews do the scheduled maintenance and record it against the equipment.
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Deficiencies. Problems found are logged, prioritized and tracked to repair.
NFPA 70E arc flash and electrical safety
Equipment that may be worked on while energized needs an arc flash label, and every facility with electrical workers needs a written electrical safety program. We cover both.
Arc flash labels
We label your equipment using the NFPA 70E PPE category tables, where the equipment fits the limits those tables allow.
Arc flash studies
When equipment needs an incident energy analysis, a partner professional engineer runs the study (short-circuit, coordination and incident energy) and we coordinate the field data, labels and follow-up.
Electrical safety program
We write the written electrical safety program for your facility: responsibilities, risk assessment procedures, PPE, energized work rules and the lockout program.
Lockout and tagout procedures
Equipment-specific lockout procedures built from the facility's own records: what feeds each piece of gear and where to lock it out, then verify absence of voltage at the point of work.
Our own crews work under our NFPA 70E-based safety program, with PPE and procedures for every task.
NFPA 70: the National Electrical Code
Everything we install meets the NEC edition, and the local amendments, of the city where the building is. We pull the permit and pass the inspection.
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Code-compliance reviews. We walk existing installations and flag what does not meet the code, ranked by risk.
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Load calculations. Service and feeder load calculations for upgrades and new equipment (NEC Article 220, renumbered Article 120 in the 2026 edition).
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Permits anywhere in Texas. Our license (TECL #39622) is statewide; we file the permit and meet the inspector.
Questions about the standards
Is NFPA 70B mandatory?
Since the 2023 edition, NFPA 70B is written as a standard, in enforceable language. Whether your site must follow it depends on who requires it: your insurer, your company's safety policy, or an authority that adopts it. NFPA 70E also expects equipment to be maintained, and points to 70B for how.
Does the Reliability Assessment make us 70B compliant?
No. The assessment is a condition review and a planning document. It is often the first step: the equipment it records becomes the start of your 70B maintenance program in Stratos Nexus.
Do you do arc flash studies?
Yes. A partner professional engineer runs the incident energy study, and we coordinate the field data collection, the labels and any corrective work. Where equipment fits the NFPA 70E tables, we can label it using the table method instead.
Can you write our electrical safety program?
Yes. We write the electrical safety program for your facility, including the lockout program and equipment-specific lockout procedures.
Which NEC edition applies to our building?
The edition your city has adopted, with its local amendments. Austin enforces the 2026 NEC and Round Rock the 2023 NEC; we check the city's adopted code on every permit.