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Electrical Safety & Arc Flash Training + Safety Qualified™ Electrical Worker Certification

Available in Spanish 

With Hand-On Activities

3 Day NFPA 70E® Arc Flash & Electrical Safety Training

This workshop is based on NFPA 70E®, OSHA and industry best practices and is designed to save lives, prevent disabling injuries, and prevent damage to plants, building and equipment. Students attending this course will gain an immense respect for the power of electricity. They will learn about personal safety for working on or around electrical systems and equipment, how to use proper materials and procedures for doing electrical work and the potential consequences for themselves or others if they don’t.

Students are given practical instruction applicable to their specific job or task while working on or around energized electrical equipment. This course also helps companies’ meet their OSHA training obligations as outlined in CFR 1910.331-335 and new NFPA 70E® standards that require training at least once every three years.

Training Outcomes

1. How OSHA and NFPA rules apply to your workplace
2. What’s changed in the NFPA 70E^® 2018 edition
3. The difference between “qualified” and “unqualified” electrical workers
4. Identify different electrical hazards
5. Understand the damage electricity can have on people and equipment
6. Use proper response methods for electrical safety accidents
7. How to recognize and work in hazardous boundaries
8. Read arc flash data
9. Apply arc flash and shock hazard warning information
10. Use safe work practices to help prevent accidents and injuries
11. How to choose, use and care for electrical safety PPE
12. Use and care for testing equipment and tools
13. The importance of electrical preventive maintenance for electrical safety
14. Electrical preventive maintenance best practices
15. Electrical safety concerns for special equipment and hazardous locations
16. How to apply their knowledge of arc flash safety

Agenda

Day 1 & 2

I. Electrical Safety & the Qualified Person ( Electrical Worker )

II. Electrical Hazards

III. Safety Related Work Practices

IV. Arc Flash Safety Practices

V. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for Electrical Safety

VI. Equipment and Tools

VII. Electrical Preventive Maintenance

VIII. Special Environment and Equipment (only as applicable to students)

IX. Student Demonstrations

X. Knowledge Comprehension Testing (Available Upon Request)

 

Day 3

Safety Qualified™ Electrical Worker Certification

Using a live, finger safe (24v) system, students are provided with different scenarios where they must use all their skills and resources to create an electrically safe work condition. Students must perform risk assessment, do job planning, interpret safety data, choose the proper PPE and tools, set boundaries, lockout, and verify a system to zero energy status.

 

 

 

 

 

®NFPA 70E and NEC ARE REGISTERED TRADEMARKS OF NFPA QUINCY, MA

 

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