Safety in Substations and Switchyards

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$49

Duration 1 Hour

The purpose of this course is to teach the basic safety principles and practices applicable to substation and switchyard maintenance work. The course describes electrical, chemical, and personal hazards that may be encountered in substations and switchyards. A general procedure for responding to imminent dangers and accidents is also presented.

At the conclusion of this course, participants should be able to identify hazards in substations and switchyards and explain why safety practices are important. They should be able to recognize hazards and unsafe practices on the job, and they should have a general understanding of how to respond to imminent dangers and accidents.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

Identify some of the safety hazards that may be found in substations and switchyards and describe some of the general safety practices that apply to most jobs in substations and switchyards.

Identify electrical hazards that may exist in substations and switchyards, the basic steps in making equipment electrically safe to work on and special precautions necessary when working with capacitor banks and current transformers.

Identify chemical and personal hazards that may exist in substations and switchyards

Describe safety precautions applicable to working with insulating oil, insulating and sealing gas and working with battery banks.

Describe general housekeeping practices that help prevent accidents and injuries and describe the proper way to lift heavy loads by hand and to use ladders, scaffolds, and bucket trucks for support.

Describe a general procedure for responding to an imminent danger at work and to an injury at work.

Identify the four classes of fires and the type of extinguisher used to put out each and describe a general procedure for reporting accidents.

After viewing a brief job-related videotape presentation, identify violations of electrical safety practices and describe accidents that could result from those electrical safety violations.

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