NFPA 70E Arc Flash / Electrical Safety Awareness

What your employer must give you

This course teaches electrical safety and arc-flash awareness, recognizing shock, arc-flash and arc-blast hazards, the qualified/unqualified boundary, and when to stop and get an authorized electrical decision. The job-, equipment-, voltage- and procedure-specific training and authorization belong to your employer. Make sure you can get each one:

• Job-, equipment- and voltage-specific electrical safety training for your actual assignment.
• Confirmation of whether your role is qualified or unqualified for the electrical tasks you may encounter.
• The employer’s procedures for achieving and verifying an electrically safe work condition (deenergizing, lockout/tagout, and testing) before any covered work.
• Arc-flash and shock risk assessments, equipment labels, and the approach-boundary distances that apply to your work area.
• PPE selection guidance matched to the incident energy and category for your task.
• The employer’s energized-work permit process and who is authorized to approve an exception.
• The site emergency response plan for an electrical incident, and who to notify.
• Authorization before you troubleshoot, test, repair, or enter any electrical approach boundary, this course does not grant that authority.

If you cannot get these, stop and ask before you continue. This course supports awareness-level training only, it does not replace your employer’s job-specific training, qualified-person determination, safe-work-condition procedures, PPE hazard assessment, energized-work permit process, or emergency plan.