Purpose of Seminar:
The purpose of this seminar is to help reduce the risk of death or injury to employees
who work on or around electricity, and to prevent fire and damage to plant and equipment
from excessive heat buildup caused by improperly grounded electrical systems.
Knowledge of proper grounding can also help answer power quality issues you may be experiencing
in your plant.
This seminar is designed to improve power quality, save lives and prevent damage to plants,
buildings and equipment!
Who should take this course?
This seminar is designed for anyone responsible for the safe installation, maintenance, repair
or inspection of electrical equipment, building electrical systems and general electrical wiring.
This includes…
- Plant Electricians
- Construction Electricians
- Building Electricians
- Building Engineers
- Plant Engineers
- Design Engineers
- Electrical Engineers
- Installation Technicians
- Maintenance Technicians
- Inspectors
- Environmental Health & Safety Personnel
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this 2-day course, students will receive a training certificate and 1.6
Continuing Education Units indicating that the student understands:
- The importance of using accepted definitions applicable to grounding & bonding
- The various components of grounding and bonding systems
- Electrical shock hazards and the effect of electricity on the human body
- Performance requirements of NEC Article 250
- Connections of grounding and bonding equipment
- Systems required to be grounded from those that are not
- Installation and sizing of conductors
- Function and sizing of bond jumpers
- System grounding requirements
- Requirements for grounding an electrode system
- Grounding requirements for service raceways and enclosures
- General requirements for bonding
- Material for, attachment of, and sizing of equipment bonding jumpers
- Equipment grounding methods
- Types of acceptable equipment grounding conductors
- Identification, sizing and installation grounding requirements for equipment
- Connecting receptacle grounding terminals
- Requirements for Grounding in hazardous locations
- Requirements for grounding special equipment
Course Outline / Agenda
One of the greatest hazards to body, plant and equipment comes from poor grounding and
bonding of electrical systems. This two-day seminar covers Article 250 of the National
Electrical Code®, which deals specifically with this vitally important topic. Attendees
will learn the purpose of grounding, how it works, and the requirements and practices
for properly grounding their own equipment and building electrical systems. Discussion
topics for this class will include:
Introduction
- Purpose of Grounding
- Understanding Accepted Definitions
- Review of Electricity Basics
- Electrical Shock & Hazards
- Ground Fault Protection, GFCI / GFPE
Grounding & Bonding Foundations
- NEC Articles
- General Requirements
- Objectionable Current
- Connection of Equipment
- Clean Surfaces
System Grounding
- A/C Circuits 50 to 1000 Volts
- Circuits not to be Grounded
- Grounding Service Supplied A/C Systems
- Main Bonding Jumper & System Bonding Jumper
- Feeders & Branch Circuits
Grounding Electrode System & Grounding Electrode Conductor
- Grounding Electrodes
- System Installation
- Methods
Enclosures, Raceways and Service Cable Connections
Bonding
- Services
- Other Systems
- Other Enclosures
- Hazardous Locations
- Equipment Bonding Jumpers
- Piping Systems and Exposed Structural Steel
- Lighting Protection Systems
- Other
Equipment Grounding and Equipment Grounding Conductors
- Permanent Wiring Methods
- Types of Conductors
- Identification of Conductors
- Installation
- Sizing
Methods of Equipment Grounding
- Connections
- Fastened in Place or Permanent Wiring
- Considered Effectively Grounded
- Grounded Circuit Conductors
- Boxes and Receptacles
Specific Equipment Situations
Fundamentals of Equipment-Grounding Circuit Design
Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
All students attending our seminars receive a personalized Certificate of Completion and .8 CEUs
(Continuing Education Units) per day of training. Over 40,000 employers and government agencies who
have sent their employees to our classes accept American Trainco CEUs for continuing education
requirements. Our administration and record keeping practices meet or exceed the standards of ACE
(American Council on Education) and we are able to provide transcripts of all classes attended and
tests taken by individual students. Please contact us if our CEUs are not yet accepted by your authority.
We will initiate an application to get the approval process started.
In House Training
You can bring this or any American Trainco seminar directly to your plant or facility. We offer
dozens of courses
covering a broad range of maintenance and maintenance management topics. Our expert instructors
are among the most experienced in the industry and can modify or customize training programs to
meet your specific needs - whether you need a short refresher course or an in depth program that
focuses on your equipment and processes. In house training reduces the training cost per employee
and limits the time required away from work. There are several other
advantages of in house training as well.
Request a quote for in-house training
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