Read a Forensic Engineering Career Spanning 45 Years
Norm Parks, P. Eng., the principal of Norm A. Parks Safety Engineering Ltd., is a licensed electrical forensic engineer in B.C., Alberta, and Ontario. He has given successful expert testimony in the Supreme Court of B.C. as a senior electrical forensic safety engineer and was a member of the audits and investigation group of the Canadian Standards Association (CSA), which researches the cause of fires when electrical products are suspect.
Parks holds a certificate in electrical fire investigation from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He specializes in applied product liability engineering as it relates to forensic failure analysis and product design defects for electrical products sold in North America. He has been active in preparing electrical forensic engineering reports regarding personal injuries and electrical fires for law firms, insurance companies, insurance adjusters and private and public companies in Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Victoria, and Vancouver for 45 years.
The kinds of electrical/mechanical equipment Parks is qualified to investigate include air conditioners, pumps, fans, pools and spas, power saws, floor cleaners, refrigerators, freezers, hair dryers, clothes dryers, ovens, ranges, power drills, coffee makers, dishwashers, power transformers up to 500KV, electrical distribution equipment up to 25KV, power generation equipment up to 500KV, induction motors up to 3,000 hp, printing presses, cutting and crease presses, garage door openers, personal hygiene equipment, electric space heating, office and data processing, laboratory testing, telephone exchange, elevator controllers, elevators and escalators, saw and pulp mill equipment, heat tracing cables, temperature controllers, entertainment equipment, fire alarm panels and lighting equipment