Electrical Safety for Qualified Electrical Workers (Virtual)

Tuition: $850*
Duration: 2 Days (8am – 4pm each day)
CEU: 1.6 Units
Prerequisites: It is recommended, but not mandatory that attendees should have some basic electrical training and field experience.

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Designed for all maintenance and testing personnel who work on or near electrical equipment. This seminar meets and exceeds the basic OSHAmandated electrical safety training. All of the concepts of electrical safety are carefully explained in both classroom and hands-on sessions. These assure that the skills and knowledge can be demonstrated to meet the OSHA requirements. The basic class and lab is primarily focused on applications below 600 volts, but an optional one day lab session is available for understanding and demonstrating the special skills and knowledge required for medium voltage applications.

*Tuition price is for open enrollments, does not include costs for on-site bookings

COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Recognize, understand and avoid electrical hazards and risks (shock, arc flash, and arc blast)
• How to develop and implement a JSA/JHA to address hazards and plan the required steps needed to work safely on or near energized conductors and circuit components.
• Safe work practices for work on or near metal clad switchgear, substations, motor control centers, medium-voltage motor starters and facility electrical systems.
• How to place equipment in an electrically safe work condition and properly utilize lockout/tagout (LOTO) requirements.
• Proper selection, maintenance, testing, use, and storage of PPE. Learn their purposes and limitations.
• How to inspect insulated tools and understand their limitations of use
• How to select and apply temporary grounds as well as specific equipment grounding hazards including step and touch potentials.
• How to use a transformer short circuit current/incident energy calculator and how to estimate incident energy under field work conditions.
• How to perform absence-of-voltage testing to help ensure an electrically safe work condition.
• Review OSHA Electrical Safety Related Work Practice regulations (29CFR 1910.311-.335 as well as Articles 110, 12 and 130.
• Understand the current utilization of NFPA 70E and the annex tables. Seminar-based program with round-table discussions.

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