Overview

This training focuses on minimizing electrical hazards, promoting safety, and ensuring compliance with industry standards. 

Course Description

This Electrical Safety training is designed to equip workers with the essential skills and knowledge to safely perform their duties around electrical systems. Given the high-risk nature of electrical work, this training focuses on minimizing electrical hazards, promoting safety, and ensuring compliance with industry standards. This training is critical for utility workers who deal with high-voltage equipment, conduct maintenance or repairs, or work in environments where electrical hazards are present. By the end of the program, workers will be well-prepared to handle electrical systems safely and respond to emergencies effectively, ensuring both their safety and the safety of their coworkers.

Learning Objectives

• Understanding Electrical Hazards: Learn about the various electrical hazards, including electric shocks, arc flashes, burns, and electrocution, and how these can lead to serious injury or property damage.
• Safe Work Practices: Develop a functional understanding of safe electrical work practices, such as using appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE), following lockout/tagout procedures, and adhering to safe operating procedures when handling electrical equipment.
• Proper Use of Electrical Tools and Equipment: Gain a clear understanding about the importance of and how to properly use, maintain, and inspect of electrical tools and equipment to prevent malfunction or failure that could lead to accidents.
• Identifying and Reporting Electrical Hazards: Recognize potential electrical hazards in the work environment and the importance of reporting any unsafe conditions immediately to prevent accidents.
• Emergency Response Procedures: Develop the skills to respond to electrical accidents, including how to administer first aid, shut off power sources, and safely evacuate the area in case of an emergency, while minimizing further risks.

Compliance and Certification Requirements

This Electrical Safety course is an awareness course and includes the general areas outlined in 29 CFR 1910.332 (General Industry), 29 CFR 1910.303 (for Electrical Safety-Related Work Practices), and NFPA 70E (Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace), as applicable. This course satisfies the regulatory requirement(s). Employees who work on electric circuit parts or equipment that have not been de-energized or who perform testing work on electric circuits or equipment must trained separately as a Qualified Electrical Worker.

Audience

This course is geared towards personnel who work on electrical systems.