Electrical Safety Qualified Person
Prerequisites: This course shall have no formal pre-requisite.
Course Length: 8 hours - Course length shall vary depending on the number of delegates. Total course time include breaks.
Class Size: The maximum number of delegates that may be trained and tested per instructor shall be thirty–five (35) in the classroom session.
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Course Objective
NFPA 70E for Qualified Persons is an online course that will cover NFPA 70E standards as they relate to being a qualified person, for electricians seeking consideration as qualified persons or those looking to be retrained.
The course must be coupled with on-the-job training to become a qualified person.
- When you have successfully completed this course, you will:
- Understand important requirements contained in NFPA 70E, particularly as they pertain to being a qualified person for work around electrical equipment, and including:
- Content of an electrical safety program for the workplace
- Training and job briefing requirements
- Responsibilities of everyone who works with or near electrical equipment, qualified or unqualified
- Describe elements of an electrically safe work condition
- Recognize the important safety concepts for working around energized electrical equipment, including:
- Justification for energized work
- Identification of hazards and the assessment of risks
- Identification and use of protective shock and arc flash boundaries
- Control of electrical energy through lockout/tagout
- Selection, use, and maintenance of personal protective equipment
- Understand the safety requirements found in NFPA 70E for working around electrolytic cells, batteries, lasers, and power electronic equipment supervision.
Course Design
- E-Learning Environment with student competency testing.
- This course will cover NFPA 70E standards as they relate to being a qualified person, for electricians seeking consideration as qualified persons or those looking to be retrained.
Successful Course Completion
- Requires a minimum score of 75% or better.
- Delegates will have no more than sixty (60) minutes to complete the exam.
- Grades shall be calculated by dividing the number of questions answered correctly by the total number of exam questions.
Course Content Summary
- Classroom
Course Topics
The course will follow the NFPA 70E standard with the following modules:
- An Introduction to NFPA 70E
- Establishing an Electrically Safe Work Condition
- Working While Exposed to Electrical Hazards
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Requirements for Safety-Related Maintenance and Special Equipment Arc flash
- Limited and restricted approach boundaries
- Limits of approach
- Electrical Safety Program
- Host and contract employers
- Qualified and unqualified persons
- Shock risk assessment
- Arc flash risk assessment
- Arc flash incident energy method
- Arc flash PPE category method
- Electrical safety authority (ESA)
- Lockout/tagout program (LOTO)
- Certified Electrical Safety Worker (CESW)
- Energized electrical work permit
- Arc flash PPE category
- Arc-rated apparel
- Safety grounding equipment
- Batteries, lasers, power electronic equipment
Practical Session
- None
Training Center Provided Material
- Course Materials
Delegate Requirements
- None
Reference Material / Documents
- National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) NFPA 70E
- Course ID #: E201