Electrical Safe Work Practices (Industrial Edition)

Shaw Energy Delivery Services, Inc. offers a two-day class based on the regulatory requirements for safe electrical work (OSHA 1910.269, OSHA 1910.331-335 and NFPA 70E). The class expands on this foundation by adding the world’s best practices, and strongly emphasizes why these requirements and best practices are so critical. Using videotapes, an instruction manual and case studies, the course is designed to convince electrical professionals of the importance of working safely and to create the understanding that safety control lies in their own hands.

Course Outline:

• Responsibilities (management, supervisors, employees)
• The basic rule for electrical work—It is not de-energized until it has been isolated, tested, locked/tagged and grounded
• Minimum approach distances
• Job briefings
• Personal protective equipment (hard hats, glasses, footwear, insulating gloves, fire resistant clothing, flash suits and other insulating equipment)
• Tools
• Safe work zone (barricades, enclosed spaces, trenching and shoring)
• Lockout/tagout
• De-energizing lines and equipment (isolate, test, lock/tag, ground)
• Switching procedures
• Single-line circuit diagrams
• Grounding (for employee protection)
• Working on energized equipment
• Mobile equipment
• Design/operation (substations, lines, fencing, signage, inspections, storage)
• Inspection and testing tools and equipment
• Administrative control (location management, escorting unauthorized personnel, security, accident/incident investigation, safety reviews)

When appropriate, a plant/site walk-around may be added.

Training Aids Required: Classroom with whiteboard, TV/VCR, overhead projector, data-show projector

Optimum Class Size: 10–12 students