Understanding the potential for an arc flash allows the facility equipment to be labeled with appropriate identifiers, including the potential incident energy available at each device or piece of equipment, the appropriate PPE required to protect the individuals that will be in contact or working with the equipment in question.

Device coordination concerns employee safety and making sure that the device settings are quick enough to minimize fault time and will allow the potential fault to clear as quickly as possible. This also will assist in minimizing property damage.

A load study gives the individuals working with or around the facility equipment an accurate understanding of the amount of current present and the locations that are the most and least heavily loaded within the facility.

Destructive energy from a short circuit can be mitigated by conducting a coordination study and by increasing the protection available to persons by completing the arc flash hazard analysis.