Limiting Arc Flash Exposure

In Limiting Arc Flash Exposure, you'll learn ...

• Limiting arc flash exposure
• Limiting short circuit currents and arcing times
• Adjustment of protective settings
• Personal protective equipment selection

Overview

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Credit: 2 CPD

Length: 20 pages

Arc flash incidents can happen despite care taken to avert them. In such circumstances, it is always better if the incident energy is low and staff are ready for the worst by implementing adequate PPE. Arc flash incidents can be cut down by use of adequate equipment, proper preventive care, planning and coordination of operation, as well as skill improvement and real experience. Also crucial is the mental and physical circumstances of the staff such that the dropping of equipment and tools, accidental touching, etc., are averted.

This course is suitable for engineers with a desire to understand how to limit arc flash exposure. The course covers preventive operation, limiting fault currents and adjustments of protection settings and personal protective equipment.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Determine best practices to prevent arc flashes in a representative engineering or safety scenario.
• Choose ways to reduce incident energy and fault levels in a representative engineering or safety scenario.
• Apply methods for decreasing arc time in a representative engineering or safety scenario.
• Demonstrate retrofit options to reduce arc-flash hazards in a representative engineering or safety scenario.
• Select personal protective equipment standards in a representative engineering or safety scenario.
• Calculate PPE selection considerations using course principles and given data.
• Use appropriate practices for the maintenance and management of the useful life of PPE in a representative engineering or safety scenario.

Certificate of Completion

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 18 questions. CPD credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.