Basic Underground School (ELT 211)
Newberry Firehouse Conference Center, Newberry, SC
Monday, August 19, 2024
- Friday, August 23, 2024
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COURSE DESCRIPTION & OUTLINE
The Basic Underground School introduces personal protective grounding on an Underground Distribution System (URD). Topics include safe working practices and procedures, terminators, elbows, and transformers, underground installation. Upon completion, students will be able to relate safety practices associated with URD systems and demonstrate proper underground system make up.
- Cable Identification & Characteristics
- Change Bushing and Fuse
- Confined Space Rescue
- Constructing the following:
- Primary Splice
- Terminators & Elbows
- Underground Enclosure
- Transformer Grounds
- Personal Protective Grounding of Transformers and URD Cables
- Safety Inspection & Maintenance of Trenchers and Backhoes
- Underground Safety
- Underground Specifications
- Underground Stripping Tool Use
- URD Transformer Maintenance
Students are required to bring Required PPE (hard hat, work gloves, rubber gloves and protectors, ANSI Z87 safety glasses, work boots). Students are encouraged to bring a clean pair of shoes to wear inside the classroom. Those with damaged or defective equipment will be dismissed.
This school is not intended to certify an individual as outlined in (a) (2) (vii) of the 1910.269 Electrical Power Generation Transmission and Distribution Standard.
TIMES
- Monday: 9:00 a.m.– 5:00 p.m.
- Tuesday – Thursday: 8:00 a.m.– 5:00 p.m.
- Friday: 8:00 a.m.– 12:00 p.m.
PRICE
- Members: $849
- Associate Members: $1199
- Non-Members: $1749
Price includes workbook, snacks and lunch Monday – Thursday. Class size is limited to 25.
PREREQUISITES: None
AFFILIATED PROGRAMS: This course satisfies Safety School requirements for the ElectriCities Lineworker Career Development and Apprenticeship (Level II).
NASH COMMUNITY COLLEGE: This course is part of the Nash Community College Electric Line Construction Technology Degree program. Successful completion of the ElectriCities Basic Underground School grants participants credit for Nash’s “Underground Line Construction I” (ELT 211).
CANCELLATION POLICY: If a course is cancelled by ElectriCities, all registrants will be notified with a full registration fee refund. A non-refundable registration fee will be charged for cancellations after the deadline of August 5, 2024.