About I-Gard
Engineering Safer Power Systems Starts Here
I-Gard brings engineering, manufacturing, application support and decades of electrical-safety expertise together to help industrial and mission-critical facilities protect people, equipment and operational continuity.
Achieving Unparalleled Protection
Electricity is the foundation every system in modern day life depends on, and the demand for it keeps growing. As electricity demand rises and the energy system grows more complex, the need for grounding and monitoring systems increases. In rapidly expanding mission-critical industries where downtime is not an option, grounding solutions protect precious time and the people who expose themselves to risk every day.
With extensive experience in ground fault protection, detection and location systems, I-Gard understands how ground faults can seriously affect equipment and processes. Our extensive line of ground fault application solutions assist users in taking the appropriate actions to ensure electrical systems are safe and properly protected.
Our Story
I-Gard has been committed to electrical safety and reliability since 1982. From the beginning, the approach has been to get ahead of the problem. When it comes to protecting people, this has meant building products designed to reduce the risk of injury at the source, rather than asking workers to rely on wearing more PPE to survive an incident that engineering could have prevented in the first place.
That philosophy grew into a portfolio of products and solutions that continue to evolve. I-Gard manufactures both the current-limiting resistor and the ground fault relay in-house making for system components designed to work together avoiding mismatches on site. Because of the company’s commitment to safety, I-Gard became the first power resistor company in North America to be ISO 9001 certified, built the only CSA approved resistor testing facility in-house in the industry, achieved UL listing across its complete neutral grounding resistor product line, and was approved by the Government of Canada under its Controlled Goods Program for Department of Defense Applications.
Today I-Gard is the only electrical safety-focused company whose product portfolio includes neutral grounding resistors, high-resistance grounding systems, and optical arc mitigation together, spanning the full range from reducing the probability of a ground fault escalating to cutting the incident energy if one still occurs. For more than 40 years, that portfolio has supported long-standing relationships across industries as diverse as petrochemical, healthcare, data centers, pulp and paper, automotive, food processing, aerospace, water and wastewater, and telecommunications.
Our Mission
Develop and manufacture unparalleled electrical safety products that proactively mitigate and monitor electrical hazards within industrial facilities, ensuring the highest level of protection for personnel, equipment, and operational continuity.
Our Vision
To empower industrial operations in safeguarding personnel and assets from electrical hazards through education and the development of unparalleled electrical safety products supported by continuous technological innovation.
Our Values
Collaboration
Working together with trust, support and respect for everyone.
Innovation
Continuously striving for excellence in technological development.
Customer Focus
Understand and address our customers’ needs in a proficient and professional manner.
Technical Expertise
A commitment to engineering excellence in every system we build.
Proactive Protection
The safest workplace is one where hazards are addressed at the source. By engineering risk out of the electrical system, we can reduce the reliance on personal protective equipment as the primary line of defense and create a safer environment by design. That philosophy is at the heart of what we do at I-Gard.
Working to improve the future of power protection, I-Gard invests extensive resources on research and product development, with the goal of proactively eliminating ground faults, improving reliability in the workplace and reducing the risk posed by electrical hazards.
Engineering-driven
Manufacturing quality
Technical support
Setting the standard
Helping to improve industrial safety standards, I-Gard is actively involved with all relevant standards agencies. Certification as an independent test facility ensures the highest level of safety without compromising delivery performance.
For over twenty years I-Gard has been committed to quality. ISO was registered in 1994. The I-Gard quality management system is certified to ISO 9001: 2015 by Intertek. This acknowledges our extensive engineering support in addition to manufacturing expertise and customer focus. All products are CSA certified and UL recognized and listed and many carry seismic or OSHPD approvals.
Please email support@i-gard.com if you require copies of I-Gard certificates.
Build a Safer, More Reliable Electrical Infrastructure
Whatever industry you’re in, I-Gard can help identify the right electrical safety and reliability solution for your facility.