Electrical Safety for Utilities (Virtual)

Electrical utility workers are exposed to live energy hazards every day, often at high voltages. Understanding the impact of these hazards and implementing the best practices for managing projects and tasks is critical to the safety of both personnel and equipment. This hands-on course is designed to address those special requirements and techniques.

Course Description: Electrical utility workers are exposed to live energy hazards every day, often at high voltages. Understanding the impact of these hazards and implementing the best practices for managing projects and tasks is critical to the safety of both personnel and equipment. This hands-on course is designed to address those special requirements and techniques.

Prerequisites: Attendees should have basic electrical knowledge. Field experience with generation, transmission, and distribution systems operating above 600 volts is desired but not required.

Course Learning Objective:

• Electrical hazard awareness including the relationship between electrical hazards and personal injury or death.
• Work rules such as determining safe approach distances for exposed energized conductors and components based on OSHA’s 29CFR1910.269, and National Electrical Safety Code (NESC)
• The proper use of special precautionary techniques, personal protective equipment (PPE), insulating and shielding materials and insulated tools for working on or near exposed energized parts of electric equipment based on OSHA and NESC
• How to inspect PPE such as rubber insulating gloves, hot sticks, rubber blankets, hard hats, face shields and arc flash clothing, grounding devices.
• Absence-of-voltage testing using contact and non-contact devices
• Lecture augmented with discussions; lab time (written and hands-on).