Instructing Plumbers

[tom baker]

I am developing an new grounding and bonding class for plumbers. I'll use the traditional water to electricity analogy.

Does anyone have a any resource recommendations that I can get material from?
I'll have to start with a discussion of lightning and why we ground and bond.

 

[Pierre C Belarge]

Tom
I am sure I do not have to tell you that the training most plumbers receive is not too detailed in the electrical end.

I would try to keep it as simple as you can when dealing with the theory end of it, and try to keep to the mechanical process/safety process.

 

[Rick Christopherson]

If you are looking for the core topics in electricity you could take a look at my website. Electricity in the Woodshop was written for people that know nothing about electricity, but I've even had electricians and electrical engineers write to me saying they learned something from it.

 

[iMuse97]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I am happy to see that you will be telling them and showing them that electricians do not use their pipe for a ground because we are too lazy to find/build our own grounding system.

 

[cadpoint]

OSHA Construction etool

http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/construction/electrical_incidents/grounding.html

I thought, that someone had posted here a great OSHA article about a OSHA bonding requirement.
Where our bond might be interrupted by outside service work on a water line and that it was a plumbers
SOP to have and maintain and required to maintain this bond as they work on any underground metal pipe.

I only lightly search here, and breezed through OSHA, I didn't want to go back to sleep so I'll only offer the hint and the Link :grin:

 

[ohm]

If you are looking for the core topics in electricity you could take a look at my website. Electricity in the Woodshop was written for people that know nothing about electricity, but I've even had electricians and electrical engineers write to me saying they learned something from it.

Great paper Rick, you would make a great instructor!

 

[Rick Christopherson]

Great paper Rick, you would make a great instructor!

Thank you.

 

[Karl H]

If you are looking for the core topics in electricity you could take a look at my website. Electricity in the Woodshop was written for people that know nothing about electricity, but I've even had electricians and electrical engineers write to me saying they learned something from it.

That is a VERY good website you put together. I'm sending the link to
all of my helpers and a couple "Journeymen." First, I need to figure out
a way to disguise it as a porn site,so they will actually look at it. :grin: