Utah – NFPA 70E Electrical Safety

The 4-Hour electrical safety course is designed for electricians to meet Utah’s license renewal requirements. This DOPL-approved course covers critical safety practices, including establishing electrically safe work conditions, applying safety-related procedures in various workplaces, and addressing hazards in substations, switchgear assemblies, switchboards, panelboards, motor control centers, and disconnect switches. It also emphasizes safety training requirements and specific safety protocols for working with capacitors.

Learning objectives

• Describe the elements of an electrical safety program and the responsibilities of employers and employees under NFPA 70E 2024.
• Apply the lockout/tagout, de-energization and absence of voltage verification steps for establishing an electrically safe work condition.
• Determine shock and arc flash boundaries from risk assessments, and select PPE using the incident energy analysis or PPE category method.
• Apply the safety related maintenance requirements for switchgear, panelboards, fuses, circuit breakers and rotating equipment, and the safety practices for batteries and battery rooms.

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.