Course description
This customized three-day course will ensure that your electrical workers are proven qualified for the electrical tasks that they are performing as specified by OSHA/OH&S/MOL/DOL and other AHJ’s, the Criminal Code of Canada, NFPA 70E, CSA Z462, and industry standards. It is 60% projects and hands-on and will ensure that your successful participants truly have the knowledge, and can demonstrate the skills, to perform their electrical operating tasks safely and properly, and ensure that you have fulfilled your due diligence requirements under all legislation.
It encompasses both indoor and outdoor substations with the major emphasis on indoor substations and electrical rooms. The course is taught by substation safety professionals each with over 35 years of hands-on maintenance, testing and troubleshooting experience with exemplary safety records working in generating stations, substations and plants.
The course is taught using our Lab 2.2, a 53' highway trailer outfitted with 25kV, 15kV, 5kV, and 480/600V electrical equipment with full cutaways giving complete access to the equipment during switching and racking.
This customized program will include certification on all your electrical systems from 120V to 138kV with safety demonstrations and practical projects on substation equipment allowing participants to conduct potential tests, perform lockout/tagout, isolations, switching, phasing and apply safety grounds using hot sticks. Simple and complex lockout/tagout can be performed combining electrical, mechanical, fluid, process, optical, overhead crane and physical guards with written, verbal, hand signal and radio communication while using Category 2 and 4 PPE. We also have simulated overhead distribution lines with fuses, cutouts, switches and grounding capability.
This lab contains: 1 - 25kV mini-OCB, 1 – 15kV GICB, 1 – 15kV S&C fused distribution load break disconnect, 1 – 5kV ACB with puffer, 1 – 5kV vacuum motor starter, 1 – 600V switchgear column with two ACB’s, 1 - 600V MCC with motor starters and GE Fanuc PLC’s, 1- 600V main disconnect and switchboard, 1 - 600V panelboard, numerous 600V load break and safety isolation disconnects, 120/240 and 120/208 panels, overhead system, voltage detectors, HV voltmeter, hot sticks, static sticks, ground clusters and DLRO, phasing sticks and simulation, switching sticks, rubber gloves, rubber and other cover ups, racking rails, overhead hoist and CB lifting hooks, locks, tags, specialized inductance demonstrator and mini-generation system.
This training originated in 1980 and has been attended by engineers, electricians, technologists, technicians and operators performing, supervising or managing electrical switching and who require these skills to be certified as competent and qualified to safely and properly perform their job.
This course will benefit any worker who wants to continue enjoying their children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
We do not do canned courses. If your workers are required to be certified please contact us and our professional development team will contact you to determine the needs of your organization, your facility and your staff.
All of our equipment is in complete switchgear and can be racked in and out providing an exact replication of common substation activities as well as mechanical binding issues. This training will be customized to your needs at our expense.
We guarantee to ensure that your workers are qualified to work safely and competently on your electrical systems in both normal and emergency situations.
Our partner, Canada Training Group, has trained 25,000 industrial workers since 1980 and has been training HV electrical workers since 1981 with extensive experience on 4,160V to 13.8kV systems. Our instructional staff have anywhere from 37 to 56 years of high voltage safety, maintenance, testing, troubleshooting and engineering experience with exemplary safety records on systems to 550kV.
The instructional design has been done to the standards of the Canadian Society for Training and Development, the American Society for Training and Development, and the International Board of Standards for Training, Performance and Instruction. This training incorporates the work of Bloom, Mager, Harless, Kirkpatrick, Kolb and Gardner and follows the ADDIE ISD process.
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Training content
I. ELECTRICAL ACCIDENTS
Objective: Realize the damage electricity can cause to the human body and understand the basic principles of safety in normal and abnormal conditions.
- Electrical Faults
- Electrical Accidents
- Electrical Faults
- Electrical Accidents
II. NFPA 70E/CSA Z462
Objective: Understand how to relate and apply the Arc Flash mitigation guidelines as set out by the National Fire Protection Association and the Canadian Standards Association.
- Limits of approach for electrical shock and flash hazards
- Arc flash parameters
- Determine curable burn distance during a short circuit
- Determine energy released during a short circuit
- Techniques for reducing arc flash energy
- Selection of proper personal protective equipment (PPE)
- Review the three types of electrical hazards:
- Describe conditions required for each to occur
- Describe procedures to reduce these hazards
- Describe the impact of V, A & T on flash hazard and electrocution
- Describe fault current available
- Review calculation methods for a supply transformer
- Describe the impact of I2T on electrical hazards
III. RECOGNIZING HAZARDS
Objective: Learn to recognize all energy sources and hazards created by various electrical equipment and devices.
- Insulation
- Cables
- Power Transformers
- Instrument Transformers
- Fault Currents
- Disconnects
- Switchgear
- Breakers
- Fuses
- Relays
- Starters
- Motors
- Capacitors
- Emergency Systems
IV. MANAGEMENT CONTROL
Objective: Understand legislation and apply methodologies to comply.
- Legislation
- Electrical Code
- Purchasing Controls
- Engineering Controls
- Training
V. SAFETY DOCUMENTATION
Objective: Establish an accessible and usable system of practice that will protect both life and liability.
- Rules
- Safe Work Practices
- Safe Work Procedures
- Codes of Practice
- Operating Procedures
- Permits & Clearances
- Switching Procedures
VI. PHYSICAL EQUIPMENT
Objective: Gain a comprehensive knowledge of the required PPE and ancillary High Voltage safety equipment available.
- Personal Protective Equipment
- Safety Equipment
- Signs and Barriers
- Equipment Protection
- Interlock
- Grounding
VII. FIELD CONTROL
Objective: Understand and apply preventative and post-accident meetings, analyses and reports.
- Inspections
- Job Planning
- Pre-job Meeting
- Hazard Identification
- Hazard Reporting
VIII. WORK METHODS
Objective: Learn and apply safe practical skills.
- Limits of Approach
- Switching Practices
IX. PERSONAL PROTECTIVE GROUNDING
Objective: Learn the dangers of and how induced currents and ground gradients are produced and how to safely select, install and maintain temporary grounds for protection of the worker. Create an equipotential zone of safety with the proper application of temporary protective grounds
- Describe potential gradients as they relate to ground faults
- Describe how & where step, touch, mesh, and transferred potentials may appear during a ground fault
- Induced Voltages
- Safe Grounding Procedures
- Grounding and dissipation of residual energy
- Temporary Grounds
- Protective Grounding Planning
- Protective Grounding Preparation
X. SWITCHING
Objective: Interpret and use a single line diagram to write a switching sequence to safely isolate an electrical device for work. Validate existing operating orders and switching procedures. Develop and maintain mandated documentation for all electrical equipment isolation and maintenance work.
- Single Line Diagrams
- Using Prints
- Electrical System Drawings
- Safety Documentation
- Isolation
- Lockout/Isolation
- Switching Workshop
XI. JOB PLANNING
Objective: Carry out Hazard/Risk Analysis in determining the degree and extent of hazards for maintenance tasks on all electrical equipment.
- Necessity of job planning to safely perform task
- Hazard Control Workshop
- Job Planning Worksheet
XII. SWITCHING SAFETY
Objective: Integrate and follow common standards in your operating and switching procedures.
- Electrical Safety Standards
- Circuits that Affect Apparatus
- Establishing an Electrically Safe Work Condition
- Specific Procedures, Practices and Orders
XIII. 480/600V MCC’S AND SWITCHGEAR
Objective: Safely and properly operate, switch, isolate, test, lock, tag, ground and rack out/in 480/600V MCC’s and switchgear.
- 480/600V Disconnects
- 480/600V MCC’s
- 480/600V LVPCB’s
- Parallel Generators
XIV. 5kV BREAKERS and STARTERS
Objective: Safely and properly operate, switch, isolate, test, lock, tag, ground and rack out/in 5kV breakers and starters.
- 5kV Breakers
- 5kV Starters
XV. 15kV/25kV BREAKERS and DISCONNECTS
Objective: Safely and properly operate, switch, isolate, test, lock, tag, ground and rack out/in 15kV breakers and disconnects.
- 15kV Disconnects
- 15kV/25kV Breakers
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Canada Training Group
Canada Training Group stands as a premier provider of industrial electrical safety and technical training. With over 40 years of expertise, we specialize in delivering comprehensive, results-oriented training programs designed to enhance safety, productivity, and efficiency across various industries. Our...