Electrical Safety Training Overview
Facility Results is focused on one goal: to educate your team on reducing exposure to hazards, arc flash safety, and the most up to date industry regulations. Our Electrical Safety Training Overview can help you and your team be productive, proactive about your arc flash training, and most importantly, stay alive.
Our trainers are experts in OSHA standards, including how to best apply standards in NFPA 70E training, but also in how to reduce hazards and keep workers on the job.
At Facility Results, we recognize that you want to run your business and keep workers safe, employed, and profitable. That’s why our arc flash training programs are designed to be practical and capitalize on every minute of training. We understand that time away from the job is money, but our solutions are well worth the time spent in the classroom.
Arc flash is a reality that occurs, on average, five to ten times a day. More than 2,000 workers a year are treated for severe burn injuries related to arc flash, with average hospitalizations of 19 days at costs that can exceed $18,000/day.
Source: “Common Electrical Hazards in the Workplace Including Arc Flash.” Workplace Safety Awareness Council. www.osha.gov
We gear our arc flash safety programs around providing knowledge your employees can use, in interesting ways. In other words, we don’t put people to sleep! Managers, supervisors, engineers, contractors and every employee in between have left our arc flash and NFPA 70E training programs knowing something they didn’t before. They come away with fresh information that keeps them efficient and safe on the job.
Facility Results expert trainers travel the country to deliver training courses that help businesses and contractors to comply with national safety standards and requirements. Following are the courses we can deliver on-site at your workplace:
- Electrical Safety Training (NFPA 70E)
- Lockout/Tagout Training (OSHA 29 CFR 1910.147)
- CPR/AED Training
- Electrical Maintenance Training (NFPA 70B)
- OSHA 10 Hour General Industry Training
- OSHA 30 Hour General Industry Training
In addition, Facility Results offers regional, half-day workshops on the correct and efficient use of NFPA 70E. These are open-seating workshops offered in medium-sized cities and major metropolitan areas around the country. Advance reservations are required.
Our comprehensive 8-hour NFPA 70E course is crafted to meticulously examine every article within the NFPA 70E Standard, providing clear explanations and interpretations for each paragraph. It is essential for every participant to possess a copy of the 2024 standard. Given the intricate nature of the NFPA 70E document, which comprises a myriad of options, it is important to note that it is not intended to be read linearly from cover to cover. This format is not recommended for an audience of trade skills but is more inline for Safety Department Management looking to develop an electrical safety program and is needing to understand all the options and administrative requirements.
In our 4-hour session, we concentrate on equipping the Qualified Worker with essential knowledge. We specifically address instances in the Standard where it mandates training for the Qualified Worker in areas such as the correct operation of a disconnect switch or the proper selection and inspection of personal protective equipment (PPE). Through interactive discussions, our class facilitates a dynamic exchange on the fundamental concepts outlined in the Standard.
Standards
Four separate industry standards establish practices for the prevention of arc flash incidents in the United States:
- OSHA 29 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 1910, Subpart S (Addresses standards for work practices)
- NFPA 70, National Electric Code (contains requirements for warning labels)
- NFPA 70E, Standard for Electrical Safety Requirements for Employee Workplaces (provides guidance on implementing appropriate work practices that are required to safeguard workers from injury while working on or near exposed electrical conductors or circuit parts that could become energized)
- IEEE Standard 1584, Guide for Performing Arc Flash Hazard Calculations
The NFPA 70E standard is a comprehensive standard that contains detailed information on how to protect workers from the heat of electric arc exposures. Preventative maintenance, worker training, and an effective safety program can significantly reduce arc flash exposure.
According to the NFPA 70E, a “Qualified Person” is one who is trained and knowledgeable of the construction and operation of the equipment or the specific work method, and be trained to recognize the hazards present. Such persons shall also be familiar with the use of the precautionary techniques, personal protective equipment, insulating and shielding materials, and insulated tools and test equipment. A person can be considered qualified with respect to certain standards and methods but still are unqualified for others.
In addition, to be permitted to work within the limited approach of exposed energized conductors and circuit parts the person shall be trained in all of the following:
- The skills and techniques necessary to distinguish exposed live parts from other parts of electric equipment
- The skills and techniques necessary to determine the nominal voltage of exposed live parts
- The minimum approach distances specified in this section corresponding to the voltages to which the qualified employee will be exposed
- The decision-making process necessary to determine the degree and extent of the hazard and the personal protective equipment and job planning necessary to perform the task safely