Electrical Risk Assessment & Safety Precautions
Electrical Risk Assessment & Safety Precautions
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Description
The Electrical Risk Assessment & Safety Precautions course teaches you everything on the topic thoroughly from scratch so you can achieve a professional certificate for free to showcase your achievement in professional life. This Electrical Risk Assessment & Safety Precautions training is a comprehensive, instructor-guided course, designed to provide a detailed understanding of the nature of the related sector and your key roles within it.
To become successful in your profession, you must have a specific set of skills to succeed in today’s competitive world. In this in-depth training course, you will develop the most in-demand skills to kickstart your career, as well as upgrade your existing knowledge & skills.
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Anyone with a knack for learning new skills can take this Electrical Risk Assessment & Safety Precautions
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Course Curriculum
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- Structure of Atoms
- Electrons
- Electric Current
- Resistance
- Electric Power
- Effective Listening Skills
- Verbal Communication
- Written Communication
- Oral Communication
- Non-Verbal Communication
- Communication Strategies
- Summary
- Assessment
- The Coulomb
- The Ampere
- The Volt
- The Ohm
- The Watt
- Ohm’s Law
- General Safety Rules
- Effects of Electric Current on the Body
- On the Job
- Protective Clothing
- Ladders and Scaffolds
- Fires
- Ground-Fault Circuit Interrupters
- Arc-Fault Circuit Interrupters (AFCIs)
- Grounding
- Electrical Maintenance
- Identifying and preventing electrical hazards
- Personal protective equipment
- Summary
- Assessment
- Direct Current Circuit Basics
- Cells and Batteries
- Summary
- Assessment
- Alternating-Current Basics
- Definition of AC
- Period and Frequency
- The Sine Wave
- Expressions of Amplitude
- The Generator
- Summary
- Assessment
- Voltage Sources
- Voltage Rises and Voltage Drops
- Ground as a Voltage Reference
- Uses of Resistors
- Fixed Resistors
- Colour Code
- Power Ratings
- Variable Resistors
- Summary
- Assessment
- Capacitor
- How does a Capacitor Store Charge
- Capacitance and Unit of capacitance
- Factors Affecting Capacitance
- Voltage Rating of a Capacitor
- Capacitors in Series
- Capacitors in Parallel
- Energy Stored in a Capacitor
- Energy Density of Electric Field
- Summary
- Assessment
- Hand Tools
- Power Tools Safety
- Electrical Standards and Regulations
- Summary
- Assessment
- Caution
- Breaking contact with electricity
- High voltage current
- Low-voltage current
- Lightning
- Shocks
- Summary
- Assessment
- What you need to know about risk assessments
- What is a risk assessment?
- Factors to consider during a risk assessment Performing a risk assessment
- Who should perform a risk assessment?
- Operatives’ obligations during risk assessments
- The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 (RIDDOR)
- Risk Assessment during PAT
- The Code of Practice for In-Service Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment
- Issues when planning PATs
- Summary
- Assessment
- The choice and different kinds of equipment
- Inspecting equipment
- General things to look for during a visual inspection
- Reducing risks: fire safety
- What must you do to ensure fire safety?
- Performing the fire safety risk assessment
- Itemised process of fire safety risk assessment
- Emergency procedures
- Call for an Emergency
- Summary
- Assessment
- Combined inspection and testing
- Types of Equipment and Tests
- The different classes of equipment
- The Earth Leakage Test
- The Touch Current Test
- IEC leads and extension leads
- PAT testers without a two-stage power lead test
- Using the IEC lead tester
- The different types of Electronic Testing Equipment
- Testing earthed and double-insulated equipment with meters
- Methods of protecting against electric shock
- Test stickers and records
- Faulty or unsuitable equipment
- Summary
- Assessment
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