Electrical Safety for Renewable Energy (Wind) Sites
September 16 @ 8:00 am – September 17 @ 4:00 pm
$850.00TUITION: $850*
DURATION: 2 Days (8 am – 4 pm)
CEU: 1.6 Units
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 DESCRIPTION:
A practical and intensive training program designed to enhance attendees’ safety while working on or near a collector system and substation equipment. Safety training requirements and safe work practices for electrical workers are covered using the NFPA 70E, NESC, and Fed OSHA regulations including 29CFR1910.331.335 and selected parts of 29CFR1910.269. PPE covered in this class includes hard hats, safety glasses, arc rated vs. FR clothing, arc rated flash suits, insulated hand tools, live line tools, rubber insulating gloves, and rubber insulating blankets. Classroom lectures will be supplemented with tests and exercises intended to reinforce best practices for operations and safety.
*Tuition price is for open enrollments, does not include costs for on-site bookings.
COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Equipment overview and electrical safety basics.
- Hazards of electricity.
- PPE and inspecting PPE.
- Medium‐voltage detection exercise pad‐mounted transformer isolation.
- Exercise substation switching exercise.
- Arc flash and shock boundaries.
- Safeguards for personnel protection and job hazard/safety analysis.
- Placing equipment in an electrically‐safe work condition.
- Hazards of de‐energized equipment.
- Testing for the absence of voltages.
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