Overview This course covers safe maintenance practices, safe installations, and safe working conditions. The worker is trained in all the principles of electrical safety. Also covered in this course are arc-flash, proper procedures, PPE, approached distances, shock boundaries, and responsibilities of the electrical worker. This course will make the worker, aware of potential electrical safety hazards and how they should be handled. What and how to use PPE, tools and company procedures. Adherence to company protocol and a productive safety culture is emphasized. Participant will also learn how to properly energize and deenergize electrical equipment and know its related uses, such as pneumatic and mechanical applications. This participant will learn the worker's value as a part of the electrical task force or on site AHJ. Volume 1 Purpose of NFPA 70 E…Objectives of an Electrical Safety Program… Qualified worker requirements, training requirements, re-training requirements…employee responsibilities, employer responsibilities, host employer responsibilities – host to contractor and contractor to host… electrical safety program design and implementation requirements, electrical safety audit, electrical safety principles, electrical safety controls, electrical safety procedures, principle of procedural task, hazard risk evaluation, job briefing working on or near conductors that can be energized, electrical work permit requirements, acceptable justification for live and bare handed work, qualification workers exempt from electrical work permit, safe maintenance standards, general arc flash requirements…what is arc flash… bolted fault verses arc fault..what causes arc flash arcing flash warning label requirements, why you should be concerned about arc flash…real world arc flash test results…what are limited, restricted, prohibited and flash boundaries?….what is energy incident?... electrical burn results…what is an arc flash study?...Arc flash hazard analysis, overcurrent characteristics, table – shock boundaries…what is PPE?... PPE tables…hazard analysis table…protective clothing table…what are the risk?... Why should you do anything?....

• Teacher: David Carpenter PhD