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

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.