Alabama – NFPA 70E (4 PDH)

Covers the 2024 edition of NFPA 70E, Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace, beginning with Article 90 scope, Article 100 definitions and Article 105 employer and employee responsibilities. Participants work through the electrical safety program requirements of Article 110, including job safety planning, training for qualified and unqualified persons and test instrument use, then the lockout/tagout and de-energization process of Article 120, including verifying the absence of voltage.

The course then addresses Article 130 work involving electrical hazards: energized electrical work permits, shock and arc flash risk assessments, approach boundaries, the arc flash boundary, the incident energy analysis and PPE category methods, arc-rated clothing and underlayers, head, face, hand and foot protection, PPE care, and barricades and alerting techniques. Later modules cover safety-related maintenance in Articles 205 through 230, special equipment in Articles 300 through 360 (batteries, lasers, power electronic equipment, R&D laboratories and capacitors) and Informative Annexes F, H, I and J.

Learning objectives

• Describe the elements of an electrical safety program and the training and job briefing requirements of Article 110.
• Apply the Article 120 lockout/tagout procedures and the steps for establishing and verifying an electrically safe work condition.
• Determine shock and arc flash boundaries and select arc flash PPE using the incident energy analysis method or the PPE category tables of Article 130.
• Identify the safety-related maintenance requirements of Chapter 2 and the hazards of special equipment covered in Chapter 3.

Disclosure of proprietary interest. No instructor, subject-matter expert or content author involved in developing or delivering this course holds any financial or ownership interest in any product, instrument, device or material referenced in it, and none receives any royalty, profit share or other consideration from the promotion or endorsement of any product. This course does not endorse any commercial product or service.