Worker Safety
Electrical Safety for Trade Workers
Course Description
Class size: n/a
Course length: 2 hours
This course is 2 hours of instructor-led training that includes a PowerPoint presentation and videos. The purpose of this training is to teach trades workers about electricity, how to recognize electrical hazards, and what to do if they, or their colleagues, make contact with electrical infrastructure or need to escape from an energized area.
Target Audience
Workers that would benefit from this training include:
- Asphalt Paving / Laydown Technician
- Boom truck operator
- Carpenter
- Concrete truck operator
- Construction Formwork Technician
- Crane operator
- Drainage contractor
- Dump truck operator
- Electricians
- Excavator operator
- Jack Hammer operator
- Painter
- Pumper truck operator
- Roofer
- Specialty heavy equipment training school (not trade colleges)
- Scaffolders
- Utility Arborist or Arboriculturist (Urban Forestry) Window-washer
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Describe the basics of electricity and BC Hydro’s power system
- Identity the hazards of working around overhead and underground power lines
- Explain how to plan and conduct your work when working on or near the electrical system
- Describe what action you need to take if:
- Your equipment contacts a power line
- You are working around a downed power line
- You need to escape from an energized area