Advanced Electrical Safety Training

Employers, supervisors, lead hands, electrical engineering and maintenance personnel who perform or directly or indirectly or oversee live electrical work in the workplace. 

• Electrical Engineers
• Plant Electricians
• Instrumentation Mechanics
• Technicians
• Electrical Safety Managers & Safety Professionals

• FREE 100-Page Digital Electrical Safety Handbook (Value $20)
• $100 Coupon Toward any Future Electricity Forum Event (Restrictions Apply)
• 1.4 Continuing Education Unit (CEU) Credits
• FREE Magazine Subscription (Value $25.00)
• Course Materials in Paper Format

6-Hour Live Online Advanced Electrical Safety Training Course Outline

Instructor

John Robin, Arc Flash/Electrical Safety Consultant, The Electricity Forum

1. Co-coordinating Company Safety Standards with Occupational Health and Safety Management Standards

• Electrical accidents are one of the 4 most common causes of death and serious injuries in the workplace.
• Use of quality management system to reduce and eliminate risk at workplace.
• Remediation of hazards for a safer workplace.

2. Electrical maintenance, and Company safety standards

• What type of Maintenance system works best for your company?
• Electrical drawings, and how not having up to date drawings can impact safety and production.
• Root cause analysis and how to get to the real reasons behind equipment failure.

3. Safe approach Zones

• How approach zones are defined, and what standards are used to define them.

4. Methods for determination of Incident energy and arc flash boundaries

• Equations to define electrical safety zones.
• How voltage classes are determined in electrical equipment.

5. Company Electrical safety programs

• Planning to include all personnel that are subjected to electrical hazards in your plant.
• Getting your crews to “buy in” to the safety program developed within an organization.
• Setting up a logical sequence of introduction for safety procedures within a workplace.

6. Risk assessments

• Identifying hazards
• Organizing tasks in a logical sequence
• Estimating risk in the course of conducting a procedure
• Appropriate risk reduction techniques

7. Lockout programs

• Definitions that impact lock-out procedures
• Choosing your companies lock-out locks
• Identifying lock points on all company equipment

8. Selection of PPE and changes in 2015

• Two category standard clothing system
• Looking at tables in CSA standard, and impact on day to day working apparel for non-electrical, and electrical workers.

9. Job briefing and tailboard meetings notes

• What to include in daily briefings
• How to keep up to date with work conditions, and make changes as jobs progress

10. Working within the limited approach Boundary of overhead or buried power Lines and equipment

• Distances to use when working within boundaries of High Voltage lines
• Delineation of approach distances for workers with boundaries of H.V. lines
• Operation of equipment within this zone.
• Crane operations within HV zones
• Excavations in the vicinity of HV zones
• Over height Vehicle operations in HV zones

11. Design considerations

• Responsibility of facility operators to design safety into equipment
• Design and construction of operating equipment
• Risk reduction methods

12. Arc flash and shock warning labels

• Standard for producing Arc Flash warning labels
• Electrical code requirements for warning labels
• Detailed label

13. Substation systems and equipment

• Safe performance of substation tasks in or in the vicinity of operating substations.
• Limits of approach, and changes due to environmental conditions
• Heat flux rates in HV equipment
• Safe grounding practices
• Disconnects and fuses
• Transformers
• Cable vaults
• insulators

14. Shock injuries from electrostatic discharges

• Identification of areas of potential shock hazards from static discharges
• Liquids and production of electrostatic shock
• Control methods

15. Workplace electrical Safety

• Human error and cause of electrical accidents
• Defining errors causing incidents in the workplace
• Procedure for workers to progress a task
• Job planning to build safety into every job
• Tool box talks
• Post job evaluation of the success (or failure) of job plans
• Communication during tasks
• Identification of equipment being worked on during switching operations
• Supervisor responsibilities during electrical tasks
• Worker responsibilities during electrical tasks

COURSE TIMETABLE

Both Days:

Start: 8:00 a.m.
Coffee Break: 10:00 a.m.
Lunch: 12:00 noon
Restart: 1:15 p.m.
Finish: 4:30 p.m.

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Successful completion of this course qualifies delegates to receive a certificate of course completion with indicated CEUs.

CEUs are granted by the Engineering Institute of Canada. One CEU is equivalent to 10 professional development hours of instruction.

This course earns 0.6 CEUs.