IFE-P Leadership

Helmut Brosz
President

Helmut Brosz is President and CEO of Brosz and Associates as well as the Executive Director and founder of the Institute of Forensic Electro-Pathology. Typically, his practice includes the leadership of professionals who serve as industrial, government and utility consultants on electrical maintenance practices, including the investigation of electrical accidents, fires, arcing, electrocutions, and injuries. He is also an adjunct professor at Ryerson University and the University of Toronto.
Canada Office

64 Bullock Drive
Markham, ON, L3P 3P2
T 905-472-6660
F 905-472-6665
USA Office

266 Elmwood Ave. #513
Buffalo, NY 14222
T 716-855-1515

The Institute of Forensic Electro-Pathology

The IFE-P is a non-profit organization dedicated to growing the knowledge base of electro-pathology. Our extensive incident archive includes failure artifacts and exemplars, photo and video galleries, safety information, accident statistics and failure rates.

Forensic Electro-Pathology

Forensic electro-pathology is the study of electrical failure and injury suitable for a court of law.

History

The Institute of Forensic Electro-Pathology was founded to provide the forensic engineering and science industry an incident database and artifact collection to service the legal, insurance, product liability, subrogation and claims industry.

Professor Helmut Brosz founded the institute and has received contributions in the form of artifacts from electrical utilities, contractors, the testing industry, and Brosz & Associates.

Our Mission

The Institute of Forensic Electro-Pathology provides leadership to advance engineering sciences and its applications within the legal and insurance system.

The Institute of Forensic Electro-Pathology main objectives are:

To become a central depository for artifacts involved in electrical failures and claims.
To foster research and further education within the field of forensic science and engineering.
To improve the practice and collaboration within the field of forensic engineering.

Resources, Services and Support

As a non-profit organization there are several avenues which the Institute of Forensic Electro-Pathology utilizes to aid a variety of industries. A small selection of which are:

Loss prevention and advice to the insurance and risk industries, as well as others
Funding of research projects and providing assistance to universities
Special lectures in the area of electrical engineering science
Extensive library of electrical codes and standards (dating back as far as 1914), which is continually growing and used by the contributors of IFE-P

IFE-P is strongly supported by Brosz & Associates and their contributors' collections. These items include but are not limited to: circuit breakers, fuses, overhead line hardware, cable (HV/LV) collection, transformer artifact collection, motor generator artificat collection, and wiring devices.