Electrical Safety Training
OVERVIEW
This Electrical Safety training course is designed to ensure that both employers and employees understand the main risks and the necessary controls for the safe use of electricity at work. Wherever people are working, there are risks to the users of electrical installations and equipment that must be considered.
COURSE AIM
This course will help you understand how to complete an electrical risk assessment, how to review existing control measures, and how to ensure that appropriate safe systems of work are put in place to keep workers from harm when their work activities involve electrical equipment or electrical installations.
COURSE DETAILS
Course Duration
1 day
Language
English Hindi Urdu
Certificate Validity
1 Year
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Why training in electrical safety is essential for maintaining health and safety.
Have knowledge of your employer’s, and your own, responsibilities under electrical safety legislation.
Understand what is involved in carrying out a risk assessment of the workplace.
Understand the importance of maintaining and inspecting electrical equipment.
Have knowledge of the controls that can be used to help make working with electricity safer.
Understand the best practices when working with electricity, including overhead power lines, underground cables and indoor work near to a source of electricity.
COURSE OUTLINE
- Introduction to Electrical Safety
- What is electrical safety? Statistics for electrical accidents, types of accidents and injuries, common causes of accidents and injuries, employer duties.
- Risk Assessment
- What is a risk assessment? Key definitions, who should carry out a risk assessment? Identifying electrical hazards, the fire triangle, deciding who may be harmed and how, evaluating risks, the hierarchy of control, recording findings, and reviewing the risk assessment.
- Controlling Hazards
- Safe installations, safe electrical equipment, duties on manufacturers, importers or distributors, electrical controls and isolation, harsh work environments, portable electrical equipment, residual current devices, warning signs, fire safety, safe maintenance, and pre-use checks, inspections and combined inspections and tests.
- Working Safely with Electrical Equipment
- Working near electrical installations, equipment and wiring, risk assessments and safe systems of work, overhead power lines, underground cables, working on equipment, machinery or installations, explosive atmospheres, competency requirements for working on or near live electrical equipment, instruction, information and training, safe methods of working – PPE, duties on manufacturers and suppliers of PPE, and safe methods of working – first aid.
COURSE SKILL SETS
»Skill sets are based on basic training in the following subjects.
» Employees could have basic English speaking & understanding language.
» No specific technical skills required for this course.
METHODS OF DELIVERY
Theory Session (Classroom)
INSTRUCTOR DETAILS
Green World always provide experienced trainers with required qualifications to deliver the requested course as we never compromise with the quality of training course. Our trainers are having vast experience of delivering health and safety training and they are well educated to handle all types of audience. Green World main aim is 100% customer satisfactory.
