I agree, you shouldn't have to be a journeyman to "teach arc flash training" I guess anyone who has read the NFPA 70E and has half a brain and a good power point presentation could do that. I've attended 5 such seminars now and there all pretty much the same. And maybe to preform a thermal audit on a power system you wouldn't necessarily have to be a journeyman, which most who doe that type of work isn't. BUT, to open a live power distribution panel and preform hot work inside that panel, I do believe you need more than a class or a degree. I take some acquired skills and training not to mention some good old nerve, that of which I don't think is taught in any class of school that I know of. It takes some years of experience working in this field under the supervision and guidance of a well qualified experienced journeyman. Thats the only way that I know of that any person can gain the skills and qualifications to work in a live panel that has the capabilities to kill that person in less that one second. Furthermore, I think, this is my own theory and I have my right to it, that all this arc flash crap is to prepare the electrical work place so that UNTRAINED individuals can work in this field and to take most of the dangers out of the work place so that UNTRAINED individuals can feel somewhat safe. Face it, there are exceptions, but there aren't that many bright young individuals coming into the electrical field like there were 20-30 years ago. Society, has trained them to believe that if you don't get an education and have a job in front of a computer or go to work in a suit and tie you are a failure. And right now and in the next 10 years the babyboomers are retiring, which make up most of the skilled JOURNEYMEN in the work force that does this type of work. I know most of you will disagree with me and thats fine but I've had to hire and man jobs for the last 15 years and I know that all the good workers already have jobs, people keep these men, the ones looking for work, most of the time, are the ones that have been culled. Just the facts. If your good you don't have to look for a job, you already have one, for the most part. And if the electrical field doesn't do something there isn't going to be anyone to do this highly dangerous work in the near future. Hence, ARC FLASH.