EPZ Grounding
about
This is a hands-on experiential course in voltage, current, resistance using series, parallel, and combination circuits. A look at the historical aspects of grounding helps refresh workers to electrical concepts and their application to personal protective grounding.
By utilizing a variety of presentation materials, content delivery appeals to a wider audience of diverse learning styles. This is not an attempt to bluster the learner with electrical engineering principles or bore them to death with a slide deck. PowerPoint training retention is very low; this evidence-based, interactive approach is much more effective. This course is useful for substation, transmission, and distribution workers.
This course covers:
- bonding and grounding
- sources of energization
- human body resistance to current flow
- resistance of grounding cables
- effects of current flow through the human body
- voltage gradients
- step, touch and transfer potential
- establishing an equipotential zone
- installation of cluster bars
- Five to Stay Alive
- Sacred Circuit
- inductions
- worksite grounding vs. working between grounds
- proper installation, care, and maintenance of ground cables
- grounding vehicles and equipment in the work area
- transferred potential rise and substations
- protective grounding circuits and induction issues
- use of multiple grounding cables per phase
- purpose of a three phase short and ground
- federal OSHA grounding requirements
- culture and communication
Recommended Class Size:
20-40 people (flexible)
Cost:
In-person: $2500 plus travel expenses
Virtual: $2500
Online: $495 for individuals; $1895 for groups up to 40 students (this includes a private 1-hour consulting call with Brady)
online course will be available for purchase here in late December 2022.