Electrical Safety

Introduction:
The electrical current in regular businesses and homes has enough power to cause death
by electrocution. Even changing a light bulb without unplugging the lamp can be
hazardous because coming in contact with the "hot" or live part of the socket could kill a
person. Electrical accidents, unlike most other industrial accidents, quite often happen to
professional and supervisory staff. In some situations they may be at greater risk than the
manual staff. In a typical year 47% of electrical accidents in factories in Great Britain
involved electrically skilled persons out of a total of 805 reported accidents. Much of the
apparatus and working practices have changed but many of the old problems persist and
the same electrical accidents are seen time and time again. Throughout the working
population one may expect this same pattern to be repeated. The program will be
valuable to engineers and technicians working with electrical fields.

Who should attend?

The course curriculum is designed especially for electric power engineers. Supervisors and
qualified technicians can get considerable upgrading education. The course is also
beneficial for other engineers such as mechanical, communication and petrol engineers.

Program Documents
 Main Hard copy
 Course CD
 Additional items upon request.
Objectives:
The program has been designed to meet objectives in both the cognitive and affective
educational domains to provide the participants with not only the “what’s” of the
electrical work practices but also the “whys”. It meets the requirements for training on
"Electrical Safety-Related Work Practices" for those non-electrical support personnel
whose work may expose them to the hazard of being near or exposed to electrical parts
operating at low, medium or high voltages. It is designed to enhance safety performance
of personnel through detailed safety aspects. Also introduces safety management concepts
and emergency response planning in power generation plants. This certainly will improve
behavior of people and have a safer workplace. Various interactive instructional
techniques will be used throughout the course including the use of Participant/Observer
role-playing using video case studies of actual accidents to help the participants use the
information learned from this course both at work and at home

Program Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this course, the participant should be able to:
 Know the First AID of Electrical Safety
•Aware of the hazard of electricity
•Identify unsafe work practices
•Do the right thing by following safe work practices
 Describe the Hazards of Electricity
 Identify Unsafe Work Practices
 Know the Right Way to a Job by Following Safe Work Practices
Course contents:

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Day one:

Understanding Basic Electricity for Electrical Safety

 Volts, Ohms, and Amps

 Hazards of Electricity
1. Shock 2. Arc 3. Blast
 Protection Strategies to Avoid Accidents and Injuries
Introduction To Electrical Safety

 Electrical hazards and electrical safety.

 Control of staff.
 Permits to work.
 Testing and research work etc.
 Non-electrical causes.
 Equipment design.
 Investigations.
 Developments in engineering.
 Consumer safety.
 Low voltage - below 1000 V
 Technical advice and expertise

Day two:

General Safety Practices

 Safety
 Job Hazards
 Work Area Protection
 Normal Environmental Impacts
 Hazardous Environmental Impacts
 Explosive or Hazardous Vapors
 Reminder of Electrical Hazards in the Field
 Dangers From Electric Shock
 Danger From Arcs and Blasts
 Protection Against Hazards
 General Body Protection
 General Safety Observances
 Levels of Responsibility
 Qualifications
 Lockout/Tag out/Tryout of Hazardous Energy Sources

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  Training
The Nature Of Electrical Injuries

Day three:

Mechanical causes of electrical failures

Failure of electrical insulation

Switchgear

Day four:

Transformer failures

Cables and installations

Switches and control systems

 Control equipment and interlocks

 Control system- electronic and solid state

Day five:

Fire And Explosion Hazards

 Fire And Explosion- general principles

 Fire And Explosion Hazards- applications
 Particular fire hazards and Detection
Effects of Electrical Energy on Humans

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