High Voltage Operational Safety for Engineers and Technicians (OSHA, NFPA and EN Standards)
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High Voltage Operational Safety for Engineers and Technicians (OSHA, NFPA and EN Standards) Course
Introduction:
Course Objectives:
- To present the recommended practices, and guides, of which NFPA 70E contained, which are developed through a consensus standards development process approved by the American National Standards Institute.
- To provide The Safety Standards
- To provide a practical understanding of electrical power system safety.
- To declare the regulatory and legal safety requirements
- To demonstrate the earthing systems Safety and Risk Assessment
- To explain the relationship between maintenance activities for various equipment and safety
- To select and maintain the electrical equipment in hazardous areas and it's standard
- To indicate arc flash hazard and mitigation
- To introduce main recommendations for electrical safety
- To review of general work and plant safety rules
Who Should Attend?
Electrical power generation systems and distribution engineers and technicians in utilities and industrial plants, managers of private electricity producers and large power consumers, substation engineers, consulting engineers, manufacturers of power equipment and technologists, and other technical personnel involved in the design, operation, and maintenance of high/medium/low voltage power systems.
Course Outlines:
Hazards of Electricity
- Hazard Analysis
- Shock
- Arc definition, description, and characteristics
- Arc Burns
- Blast
- Affected Body Parts (Skin, The Nervous System, Muscular System Heart, The Pulmonary System )
- Causes Injury and Death
- Shock Effect
- Arc Flash Effect
- Protective Strategies
Earthing Systems Safety And Risk Assessment
- Equipment Earthing
- Measuring earthing rods
- System Earthing
- Unearthed systems
- Solid earthing
- Resistance earthing
- Reactance earthing
Classification Of Supply / Installation System Earthing
Earthing Via Neutral Earthing Compensator
- Distribution transformers
- Zig Zag transformers
Comparison of Methods (Advantages/Disadvantages)
- Evaluation of earthing methods
Touch And Step Voltage
Effect of electric shock on human beings
Electric shock and sensitive earth leakage protection
Sensitive earth leakage protection
Risk assessment principals
How to assess the risks in your workplace?
How to conduct a risk assessment?
Risk assessment Job Briefing and Planning Checklist
Case Studies
Arc Flash Hazard Analysis And Mitigation
- A short history of arc flash research
- NPFA-70E-2004 application
- Calculating the Required Level of Arc Protection (Flash Hazard Calculations)
- The Lee Method
- Methods Outlined in NFPA 70E
- IEEE Standard Std 1584-2002 /
- Required PPE for Crossing the Flash Hazard Boundary
- A Simplified Approach to the Selection of Protective Clothing
Arc flash hazard assessment
Traditional methods for reducing arc flash
New strategies for reducing arc flash hazards and suggestions for Limiting Arc-flash and Shock Hazards
Standardizing Arc Flash Hazard Labels
The Role of Over-current Protective
- Devices In Electrical Safety
- Staged arc-flash tests
Electrical Safety Equipment
- General Inspection and Testing Requirements for Electrical Safety Equipment
- Flash and Thermal Protection (Clothing and materials)
- Head, Eye, and Hand Protection
- Rubber-Insulating Equipment (Gloves, Mats, Covers,….)
- Hot Sticks (description, application, testing)
- Insulated Tools
- Barriers and Signs
- Safety Tags, Locks, and Locking Devices
- Voltage-Measuring Instruments
- Proximity Testers
- Contact Testers
- Selecting Voltage-Measuring Instruments
- Instrument Condition
- Low Voltage Voltmeter Safety Standards
- Three-Step Voltage Measurement Process
- General Considerations for Low-Voltage Measuring Instruments
Safety Grounding Equipment