High Voltage Switching Safety, Operations and Maintenance

Start Date End Date Venue Fees (US $)
16 Nov 2025 Dubai, UAE $ 3,900 Register

High Voltage Switching Safety, Operations and Maintenance

Introduction

Safety should be the first consideration for anyone working with electricity, especially high voltage. This workshop introduces participants to all aspects of the procedures required for ensuring safe work in any job involving high voltage.

Objectives

    By the end of the training, participants will be able to:

    • Demonstrate approved ways of operating and earthing high voltage equipment to ensure the safety of personnel at all times
    • Identify safe and unsafe working conditions
    • Identify requirements for a responsible person or appointed operator
    • Demonstrate a fundamental knowledge of the documentation required for Occupational Safety Acts
    • Perform live chamber and limited access procedures

Training Methodology

This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies, and presentations on best practice. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants on what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The online course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.

Who Should Attend?

This course is intended for all Design Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Electrical Technicians, Electrical Tradespersons, Electricians, Field Technicians, Instrumentation Engineers, Plant Operators, Project Engineers, and Staff visiting or working in hazardous areas.

Course Outline

Day 1: Introduction

  • The requirements of a typical safety act with reference to employer and employee
  • Definitions
  • Defining terminology commonly used in the safe operating and earthing of high voltage electrical installations
  • Fundamental principles
  • Purpose of the regulations and the principles on which they are based; dangers of electricity
  • Isolation
    • Alive, dead, and isolate; breakers, links, and switches
    • Locking of links
    • Indoor and outdoor switchgear

Day 2: Reason for earthing

  • Dead, earthing, characteristics of a safe earth connection
  • Dangers of inadequate earth connections
  • Alive, accidental livening of apparatus, livening by induction charges of isolated apparatus, residual voltage reasons for earthing

Making feeders and apparatus safe to work on

  • Safety testing warning notices, minimum earthing requirements, additional earth, portable earth, work on lines, work on cable feeders, indoor and outdoor switchgear (control panel labels)

The work permit system

  • The work permit forms
  • Purpose of the forms, application and clearance, circumstances when a permit is required, forms in duplicate, application and permit, workman’s declaration, clearance, duration of a permit, extending of permits, canceling of permits

Day 3: Live chambers and prohibited areas

  • Live chamber, prohibited area, locking, unrestricted access, access by other people
  • Keeping and issuing of keys, the responsibility of key holders
  • Surrender or loss of keys

Abnormal condition

  • Apparatus not yet connected to the system
  • Testing of equipment

Appointed operator and the responsible person

  • Duties and responsibilities of appointed operator, responsible person
  • Duties and responsibilities of the responsible person

Day 4: Local regulations and instructions

  • Abnormal circumstances requiring localized operating procedures
  • ❖ Electrical machinery regulations
  • Electrical machinery regulations and requirements of employers and employees
  • Minimum clearances

Day 5: Electrical installation regulations

  • Electrical installation regulations and requirements of employers and employees
  • First aid and artificial resuscitation
  • Basic first aid and electrical resuscitation for victims of electrical shock

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