ON-SITE NFPA 70E TRAINING

Technical Skills Development Services Inc. specializes in on-site (at your location) 2009 NFPA 70E Electrical Safe Work Practices and related Arc Flash Safety compliance training. Our Company employs only experienced, qualified trainers who have spent decades in the electrical installation and maintenance trades before transitioning into training professions. Technical Skills Development Services Inc. strives to fine tune each and every training class curriculum to meet or exceed the customer’s particular needs.

Technical Skills Development Services Inc. now offers three distinct levels of one-day on-site 2012 NFPA 70E training, as outline below:

2012 NFPA 70E General Compliance Course

This course is a perfect fit for manufacturing facilities, educational institutions, medical facilities, governmental entities, and industrial facilities who need a diverse group of personnel trained and brought into compliance with OSHA and NFPA 70E within a single class day.

• A working knowledge of the basic elements of electrical systems.
• Identification of client-specific electrica hazards.
• Understanding the electrical elements and circuit properties that contribute to these electrical hazards.
• The potential effects on the human body due to unprotected exposure to these hazards.
• An introduction to and a review of the 2012 NFPA 70E Electrical Safety for the Workplace Standard.
• Shock protection including safe work practices and PPE selection based on the Standard.
• Arc flash and arc blast protection including safe work practices and PPE selection based on the Standard.
• Instructor-led demonstration of properly selecting and safely using a digital multimeter.
• Question and answer period.

2012 NFPA 70E Electrically Qualified Course

This course is a perfect fit for electrical contracting firms, maintenance departments in industrial facilities, and engineering firms specializing in electrical retrofits or new installations.

• An introduction to and review of the 2012 NFPA 70E Electrical Safety for the Workplace Standard.
• Safe work practices and PPE selection when working within the limited approach boundary.
• An understanding of generators and transformers, and their influence on incident energy levels during an arc flash.
• A review of grounded and ungrounded systems including the hazards associated with each.
• An understanding of the properties of overcurrent protective device including time current curves, clearing times, and amperage interrupting ratings (AIC), and their effect on the level of energy released during an arc flash.
• Interpreting and complying with arc flash analysis labels placed on equipment (in-class practice).
• Determining hazard risk categories using the 2012 NFPA 70E tables.
• Properly selecting PPE based on hazard risk category (hands-on).
• Safe work practices associated with the use of electrical measurement equipment (hands-on).
• Optional exposed energized applications training using customer electrical equipment (o
• Question and answer period.

2012012 NFPA 70E Awareness Training for Management Personnel

The course is designed to teach management personnel such as plant managers, health and safety managers, training directors, electrical supervisors and others the requirements of OSHA and the 2012 NFPA 70E as it applies to both electrically unqualified and qualified workers. The course covers employer and management responsibilities such as electrical safety program requirements, training and retraining requirements, and employer/employee compliance with OSHA and NFPA 70E standards.

• An introduction to and review of the 2012 NFPA 70E Electrical Safety for the Workplace Standard.
• Introduction to electrical hazards.
• Host and contractor responsibilities.
• Identification of qualified and unqualified electrical personnel.
• Employee training and retraining requirements.
• Training documentation.
• Development of a compliant electrical safety program.
• Arc flash analysis requirements and labels.
• Personal protective equipment provision, testing, and care requirements.
• Housekeeping duties.
• Use of flammable materials