301-21 Switching Practices
Learning objectives
- Discuss industry standards associated with lockout-tagout practices
- Explain how these standards provide safe working conditions for field operations personnel
- Describe employer and employee responsibilities
- Discuss relevance of lockout-tagout and switching and tagging
- Describe process used to write, review, approve, and implement switching and tagging procedures to high voltage power lines and substation equipment
- Discuss how electric utilities use switching and tagging concepts to maintain power lines and substation equipment
- Explain various system verifications needed to write complete switching orders
- Discuss examples of switching order preparation and implementation
Course overview
The Switching Practices training course explains how utilities perform maintenance activities on high voltage power lines and substation equipment through switching and tagging procedures. It presents how electric utilities write and process switching orders to remove equipment from service. This online course reviews lockout/tagout devices and summarizes steps involved in an effective switching order. Switching Practices is part of the Distribution Systems training series.
The individuals involved in the development and promotion of this course do not receive any compensation or financial benefits outside of their regular employment for their work on this course.
