October 24 - 26, 2005

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Hosted By: Northern Canada &  Southern Alberta Sections of IEEE

Mary Capelli-Schellpfeffer, M.D., MPA

Received the medical degree from the University of Florida, and the master’s degree in public administration from the University of Wisconsin - Parkside. She completed her post-graduate training in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the Medical College of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine as a family medicine intern and in the Medical College of Wisconsin Department of Preventive Medicine in General Preventive Medicine and Public Health. 

Her initial community-based clinical experience included 5 years in private occupational and preventive medicine practice in ambulatory care, public health department, and public schools settings. 

Following a successful private practice, from 1991-1993, she was the Medical Director for companies of Wisconsin Energy Corporation, including Wisconsin Electric Power Co. , Wisconsin Natural Gas, and Point Beach Nuclear Facility, where she provided ambulatory and occupational surveillance health services for a workforce of 5600 employees in energy generation, transmission and distribution businesses. 
She joined the University of Chicago (UC) Department of Surgery faculty in 1993 where as an assistant professor she served as the Director of the Hyperbaric Unit of the University of Chicago Burn Center and saw ambulatory and inpatient surgical and burn wound patients. During this time, she also as worked in basic and clinical research with the UC Electrical Trauma Research Program, where she developed an independent research project addressing the parameters and prevention of industrial electrical explosions.

Since 1999, Dr. Mary has delivered outpatient routine medical and urgent care services to employees in occupational health service centers. 

Dr. Mary is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE). She has served as the Secretary, Vice Chair, and Chair of the IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS) Petroleum and Chemical Industry Committee (PCIC) Safety Subcommittee. In 2003, Dr. Mary received the IEEE IAS PCIC Electrical Safety Excellence Award. Dr. Mary also served as the chair of the 2003-2004 National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 70E Future Directions Task Group, exploring emerging opportunities for the advancement of electrical safety. 

Dr. Mary is licensed in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Maryland, and boarded by the American College of Preventive Medicine. She is a member of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Mike Doherty

Mike is a fully certified Electrician, Industrial Instrumentation Technician and Electrical Skills Instructor.  His career has included working in mining, government and the electrical power generation fields.

He is presently in his 29th year with Ontario Power Generation, the old Ontario Hydro. Mike’s tasks there have included many years of maintenance time on the tools, electrical skills & safety instruction and general safety training.

For the last 6 years Mike has been almost exclusively dealing with electrical safety. This encompasses the maintenance, training and Electrical Safety Program issues at the Darlington Nuclear Generating station and in OPG. This has included very extensive dealings with the IEEE as well as speaking and benchmarking regarding electrical safety issues across many diversified industries across North America. Mining, petrochemical, nuclear power, fossil power, electrical utility companies, community colleges, “Tradeability” electrical apprenticeship programs and safety training companies are some of the areas where he has been involved recently.

He is on the task force for the IEEE – SA “Electrical Safety Resource Center” web site and the leader for the “IEEE Electrical Safety Virtual Community”.

Mike is presently on the executive board for the IEEE 1584 Arc Flash Calculations Working Group. He was the secretary for the 12th Annual IEEE IAS Electrical Safety Workshop in Denver in February of 2005. He will be the Vice-Chair in 2006 in Philadelphia and the Chair of the Workshop in Calgary, Alberta in 2007.

Mike is presently the only Canadian member of a new collaborative effort between the IEEE and the NFPA called the Research and Testing Planning Committee, (RTPC) that is investigating the complete range of electrical hazards within an electrical arc flash / blast event.

Hugh Hoagland

Hugh Hoagland is one of the foremost trainers and researchers in electric arc protection.  His NFPA 70E and OSHA 1910.269 Training Programs are used by many Fortune 500 companies and governmental agencies including Alcoa, GM, Toyota, Bechtel, DOE, and hundreds of electric utilities.  Hugh has performed and developed testing (by original research and participation in ASTM, NFPA, ANSI, CSA and ISO standards groups) for the electric arc since 1994 and has performed over 15,000 electric arc tests on clothing, faceshields, fall protection harnesses, personal protective gear and rainwear.  Hugh holds multiple patents on devices protecting workers from electric arc and has multiple inventions in the area all owned by manufacturers.

Hugh has trained over 40,000 people in arc hazards. Hugh's publications are numerous in IEEE and safety magazines and he helped invent most of the arc resistant rainwear materials used today and is also co-inventor of the first arc protective faceshield.  Hugh serves as an expert witness and performs accident investigations.Member of ASTM International, IEEE (Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers) and NFPA (National Fire Protection Association)  Member IEC (International Electrical Committee) Live Working TC78  Member CSA (Canadian Standards Association) High Visibility Clothing Committee Member ANSI 107 ISEA High Visibility Committee  Hugh has a BA from Kentucky Wesleyan College and extensive graduate work at the University of Louisville.  Hugh is a trained chemist and worked in Safety at LG&E Energy for five years as a Technical Consultant.  He is a former R&D Director and Technical Manager in Electric Arc. Hugh now consults with hundreds of companies yearly on the electric arc and clothing. Publications (opens in a new window)

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Tom Neal

Dr. Neal holds a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of North Carolina and was the Technology Manager of DuPont's Thermal Testing Laboratory from 1993 through 1999. He has over twenty-five years of experience in high performance fibers, fabrics and protective clothing, and he has been a leader in the development of industry standards related to electric arc flash hazard analysis and the application of protective clothing for arc flash and flash fire hazards, including ASTM E54, F18, ASTM F23, IEEE P1584, NFPA 70E and IEC TC78. Tom is the Chairman of the E54.04 Subcommittee on PPE for Homeland Security and Vice-Chair of the F23 Committee on Protective Clothing, and leads ASTM F18.65 Task Groups for specifying protective clothing and rainwear for the arc flash hazard and for development a new electric arc instrumented mannequin test method for evaluating protective clothing finished products.

Tom is a hands-on scientist and has conducted thousands of electric arc tests and flash fire tests using instrumented mannequins. He particularly values the opportunity to interact with end-users and safety professionals in the petroleum, petrochemical, chemical and electric utility industries in order to gain a better understanding of the real thermal hazards workers face every day in their jobs.

In 1999 after retiring from DuPont, Tom started his own consulting business, Neal Associates Ltd. and has continued his participation with standards organizations and his work on testing and improving protective clothing for electric arc and flash fire hazards. In 2004, Tom and two team members received the IEEE Medal for Engineering Excellence for their pioneering work on protecting workers from the arc flash hazard.

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Vince Rowe 

Vince Rowe is recognized as an Industry leader in Hazardous Locations standards, wiring systems and classification.  He is a member of the Committee on the Canadian Electrical Code Part I and chairs the Hazardous Locations and Electric Heating sections of that Code in addition to being a member of subcommittees for a number of other sections.  He is also a member of a number of CSA product standards subcommittees and of the Committee for the Objective Based Industrial Electrical Code (OBIEC).  Vince previously participated as a member of the Technical Committee for Wiring Products, and the CSA Strategic Committee on the Requirements for Electrical Safety (a committee that oversees the activities of both the Canadian Electrical Code and the associated product standards).  He is also an active member of the Alberta Code for Electrical Installations at Oil and gas Facilities.  Vince’s focus is to provide Industrial end users the tools to design safer facilities while eliminating the unnecessary costs associated with previous Hazardous Locations designs.

Vince has been instrumental in modifying the Canadian Electrical Code to allow the use of cables as a wiring means in Hazardous Locations and he chaired the subcommittee that developed the CSA standard for Tray Cable.  He also chaired the task force responsible for developing the modifications to the 1998 edition of the Canadian Electrical Code to:

• Allow the use of Hazardous Locations equipment employing the IEC “methods of protection” in its design, and
• Change the Class I method of area classification from a Two Division system to a Three Zone system.

Vince has given numerous training seminars on Hazardous Locations design and area classification and has authored or co-authored a number of IEEE-PCIC papers on the subject.

Vince received a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Manitoba in 1960 and worked in various locations in Utilities, mining and Ammonia production prior to joining Shell Canada in 1974.  Since retiring from Shell in 2000 he has worked as a consultant and is currently a partner at Marex Canada Limited.

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