Electrical Safety: Hazards, Controls, and Best Practices Overview
Learning objectives
- Identify hazards of working with electricity
- Identify safety controls your employer will use to protect you and your co-workers from electrical hazards
- Identify best practices and procedures that will protect you and your co-workers from electrical hazards
Course overview
This lesson builds upon the Electrical Safety: General Awareness lesson and addresses the hazards of working with electricity, electrical preparation and installation practices, as well as best practices for using personal protective equipment, arc-flash hazards and controls, and lock-out/tag-out procedures. It’s recommended that students complete the Electrical Safety: General Awareness lesson prior to taking this lesson. Completing this lesson does not designate an employee as an electrically-qualified worker.
- 15 minutes
- Format: Online Interactive
- English , Spanish
Course Outline
- Electrical Safety: Hazards, Controls, and Best Practices Overview
Regulations
- OSHA 29 CFR 1926 Subpart K - Electrical - 1926.416 General requirements
- OSHA 29 CFR 1926 Subpart K - Electrical - 1926.417 Lockout and tagging of circuits
- OSHA 29 CFR 1910 Subpart S - Electrical Safety-Related Work Practices - 1910.301 Introduction
- OSHA 29 CFR 1910 Subpart S - Electrical Safety-Related Work Practices - 1910.303 General
- OSHA 29 CFR 1910 Subpart S - Electrical Safety-Related Work Practices - 1910.332 Training
- OSHA 29 CFR 1910 Subpart S - Electrical Safety-Related Work Practices - 1910.308 Special systems
- OSHA 29 CFR 1910 Subpart S - Electrical Safety-Related Work Practices - 1910.333 Selection and use of work practices
- OSHA 29 CFR 1910 Subpart S - Electrical Safety-Related Work Practices - 1910.304 Wiring design and protection
- OSHA 29 CFR 1910 Subpart S - Electrical Safety-Related Work Practices - 1910.307 Hazardous (classified) locations
- National Fire Protection Association Standards NFPA 70E, Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace
- OSHA 29 CFR 1910 Subpart S - Electrical Safety-Related Work Practices - 1910.335 Safeguards for personnel protection
- OSHA 29 CFR 1910 Subpart S - Electrical Safety-Related Work Practices - 1910.334 Use of equipment