When an employee follows a company sop while turning on or off breakers of 60-600amp would he be considered a qualified worker under 70e ? Should there be more training involved ? This is after a arc flash study is done.
I'd say he is qualified for a particular task, but not necessarily qualified as an electrical worker if that is what is in question.When an employee follows a company sop while turning on or off breakers of 60-600amp would he be considered a qualified worker under 70e ? Should there be more training involved ? This is after a arc flash study is done.
SOP is standard operating procedure. I ask those questions because I think under 70e an employee should be trained a little more than reading a sop after being showed once. Is this a task for a qualified worker? I don,t know the rules just seems to me there should be training before opening or closing large breakers even if there is no exposed conductors.
...But if the operation is from the outside of a panel or dead front of a panel, and as long as the SOP includes recognition and adherence to the labeled hazard risk of the panel and/or PPE requirement, as identified in the risk assessment that has been performed, then why not? Nobody intended this to require a LO/TO procedure to need an electrician every time a belt needs adjustment or a cleanup needs to take place, as long as there is no exposure to potentially live conductors.
Maybe realizing that closing a breaker into a presumed and unrepaired fault is a bad idea?Other than training them on how to safely perform this task what additional training do you think is required?
Maybe realizing that closing a breaker into a presumed and unrepaired fault is a bad idea?
If there are routine nuisance trips, then the ability to recognize a trip that does not fit that scenario would be nice. Even if they do not need to have any idea how to actually fix it.
To all- this is not about protecting turf. It is about people turning power onto motor control panels and trying to start motors back up that has burned out and not knowing this they try it again and again. All they know is they have to get the piece of equipment running.
What I am trying to find out is if being qualify to operate the equipment are they qualify as in 70e , even with the sop.
I don,t think so and was looking for other peoples outlook on this.
When an employee follows a company sop while turning on or off breakers of 60-600amp would he be considered a qualified worker under 70e ? Should there be more training involved ? This is after a arc flash study is done.
When an employee follows a company sop while turning on or off breakers of 60-600amp would he be considered a qualified worker under 70e ? Should there be more training involved ? This is after a arc flash study is done.
Bingo...I do not think any of us can intelligently answer your question until we see what is written in this SOP.