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3. Guide to Electrical Safety Work Practices NFPA 70 E

Covering safe maintenance practices, safe installations, and safe working conditions, you will be trained in all the principles of electrical safety. Also covered in this course are arc-flash, proper procedures, PPE, approached distances, shock boundaries, and responsibilities of electrical workers. This course will make you aware of potential electrical safety hazards and how they should be handled, including what and how to use PPE, tools and company procedures. Adherence to company protocol and a productive safety culture are emphasized. You will also learn how to energize and de-energize electrical equipment properly and know its related uses, such as pneumatic and mechanical applications. You will learn the worker's value as a part of the electrical task force or on-site AHJ.

Volume 1

Topics include:

• Purpose of NFPA 70 E
• Objectives of an Electrical Safety Program
• Qualified worker requirements, training requirements, re-training requirements...
• Employee responsibilities, employer responsibilities, host employer responsibilities – host to contractor and contractor to host
• Electrical safety program design and implementation requirements, electrical safety audit, electrical safety principles, electrical safety controls, electrical safety procedures, principle of procedural task, hazard risk evaluation, job briefing working on or near conductors that can be energized, electrical work permit requirements, acceptable justification for live and bare handed work, qualification workers exempt from electrical work permit, safe maintenance standards, general arc flash requirements
• What is arc flash
• Bolted fault verses arc fault
• What causes arc flash arcing flash warning label requirements, why you should be concerned about arc flash
• Real world arc flash test results
• What are limited, restricted, prohibited and flash boundaries?
• What is energy incident?
• Electrical burn results
• What is an arc flash study?
• Arc flash hazard analysis, over-current characteristics, table – shock boundaries
• What is PPE?
• PPE tables
• Hazard analysis table
• Protective clothing table
• What are the risks?
• Why should you do anything?

1. Understanding Basic Electricity for Electrical Safety
2. OSHA Electrical Requirements - CFR 1910 Subpart S., Below 600 Volts
3. Guide to Electrical Safety Work Practices - NFPA 70 E
4. Guide to the National Electrical Code for Field Use - NFPA 70
5. Grounding Bonding Shielding
6. Preventive and Predictive Maintenance Standard - NFPA 70 B
7. Industrial Machines - NFPA 79
8. OSHA Electrical Requirements – CFR 1910.269 Above 600 Volts

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