Duration: 1 days
Location: Warrendale, PA
Credits: 0.8 CEUs
Target audience
Electricians, technicians, maintenance workers, engineers, managers and safety professionals who need to follow and adhere to industry and government standards to maintain safe electrical work environments.
Learning objective
At completion of this course, students will be able to avoid working on or near energized equipment. Where exposure cannot be avoided, students will learn to implement safety procedures to minimize dangers adhering to the guidelines of NFPA 70E.
Abstract
Personnel safety is the most important concern in the workplace. The NFPA 70E sets standards for electrical safety in the work environment and keep workers safe while working on or around electrically energized equipment. IEEE 1584 sets the industry standard for evaluating the arc flash hazards in a power distribution system and its equipment. OSHA 29CFR1910 subparts R and S tie these standards and governmental regulations for electrical safety together. OSHA mandates regarding electrical safety in the workplace specifically require employer assessment of generally recognized hazards in the workplace, and provisions for protecting the employee from those hazards.
Course topics include:
General Information
Regulations, standards and codes
OSHA [29 CFR 1910.399 Part 2]
NFPA 70E-2024
Your employer’s electrical safety program
Working safely on or around energized electrical equipment
Temporary grounding
Protective grounding equipment
Procedure for using temporary grounding conductors
Ground-fault circuit-interrupter (GFCI) protection
Working in a situation where an arc-flash or shock hazard exists
Electrically safe working condition and exceptions that might justify working around live parts
Working in a situation where an arc flash hazard exists
How do power systems engineers determine incident energy and arc flash boundaries
Classroom exercise — assess the risk of an arc flash
Selecting and using personal protective equi