Archived Webinars

DC Electrical Safety, Part 1: Introduction to Electrical Shock, Thermal, and Arc Flash Hazards

This webinar introduces the fundamentals of DC systems and the unique hazards they present. It outlines OSHA and consensus standards requirements for DC electrical safety. Attendees will gain an understanding of the basics of DC systems, how DC differs from AC, and the safety requirements specific to DC environments. Future sessions will explore each hazard in depth and examine the performance of AC-rated arc flash personal protective equipment (PPE) when used in DC applications.

Top 10 National Electrical Code Revisions Impacting Electrical Safety

NFPA 70: National Electrical Code is undergoing a major revision that’s being spread out over several revision cycles. With an overload of changes occurring every time a new edition of the code comes out, it can be difficult to stay in tune with everything that’s shifting in it. However, the impact of proper installation on the safety of employees in the workplace means that important changes involving safety of personnel must not get lost in the fog. This webinar will examine some of the major revisions taking place in the code for the 2026 edition that are aimed at safeguarding people and property from the hazards that arise from the use of electricity.

Electrical Shock and Arc Flash Mitigation and Limitations

Understanding of the electrical arc flash and electrical shock hazards has vastly improved over the past few years. Employers undertook a concerted effort to issue personal protective equipment (PPE). As electrical safety evolved, industry is focusing on design enhancements that go beyond the provision of PPE.

This webinar explores various mitigation techniques aimed at preventing injuries, drawing upon standards such as OSHA, NEC, and NFPA 70E. It poses the critical question of whether design changes can negate the necessity for PPE, examining if a company can maintain safety standards without relying on PPE. Additionally, the webinar will address relevant maintenance requirements outlined in NFPA 70B and will introduce pertinent OSHA regulations.

Executive Q&A: Electrical Safety Essentials – Navigating NFPA 70E for a Safer Workplace

This webinar is designed to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of electrical safety in the workplace. It covers key topics such as identifying electrical hazards, performing risk assessments, and the correct use of personal protective equipment (PPE). Attendees will learn about the latest revisions to the NFPA 70E standard, which outlines safe work practices for employees working with or near energized electrical conductors and equipment.

Electrical and Multi-Hazard Hand Protection: Beyond Electrical Shock and Arc Flash

Hand protection has evolved significantly since metal and rail workers first used gloves stitched from animal hide to guard against cuts and burns. Today, gloves are designed to protect against extreme temperatures, vibration, cuts, conductivity, and electrical hazards (dielectric or voltage-rated), as well as to serve as protective layers for other gloves. These various forms of protection fall under the umbrella of multi-hazard hand protection—an essential element of workplace safety that has led to mandated regulations in the U.S. and other countries.

NFPA 70B Focusing on Maintenance of Electrical Equipment

This webinar will provide an overview of the 2023 edition of NFPA 70B: Standard for Electrical Equipment Maintenance. Topics to be discussed include why NFPA 70B was transitioned to a standard from a recommended practice; the relationship between OSHA and 70B; the structure and layout of the document; and a detailed overview of Chapter 9, which addresses determining maintenance intervals in the absence of manufacturer recommendations. Attendees will gain a better understanding of how this new standard can improve electrical equipment reliability and workplace safety for personnel.

Electrical LOTO/ Control of Hazardous Energy and NFPA 70E

This webinar explores the differences within the OSHA standards for general industry, commercial electrical, and utility work. It explains the role of NFPA 70E and introduces concepts such as complex and simple lockout, tasks that require electrical lockout, training, and auditing. We will also explore concepts such a failure to establish LOTO, failure of established LOTO, and why the term LOTO is incorrect for electrical work by introducing the concept of an Electrically Safe Working Condition.

Advancing Electrical Safety – Principles and Practices

Electrical safety is difficult to establish and even more difficult to sustain. These challenges are driven by an evolving workforce and ever-changing technology. OSHA has electrical safety requirements for commercial industry users, utilities (power generation, transmission and distribution) and construction. These requirements govern both technology and work practices. We start by creating specific rules applicable to our work – remove the generic language of OSHA and replace it with the specifics of our workplace. This webinar uses the principles from a consensus standard – NFPA 70E-2024 – to establish these specific (and customized) electrical safety work practices.

Ask Me Anything: Electrical Safety with Zarheer Jooma

Do you have a lot of questions about electrical safety? Now is your chance to get them answered. Electrical safety expert Zarheer Jooma, P.E., IEEE (SM’17), and partner at e-Hazard, will join Occupational Health & Safety for a full hour to address your queries on electrical safety, including standards, risk assessment, incident investigation, and more. As the heading suggests, you can ask Zarheer anything related to electrical safety, and he will share his extensive knowledge and expertise with the audience. Think of this as an open office hour with a knowledgeable safety authority.

Electrical Risk Assessment for Arc Flash and Electrical Shock – Part 2

The webinar focused extensively on human performance and the hierarchy of risk control. This webinar builds on the previous discussion and attempts to provide practical recommendations by showing how organizations can implement these strategies. A quick recap of the previous webinar sets the stage to discuss the components of an Electrical Risk Assessment Management System.

Electrical Risk Assessments for Shock and Arc Flash

This Safety+Health webinar will address the confusion that sometimes occurs during the process of managing compliance in electrical safety. While regulations concerning utilities and commercial industry are well established, electrical safety compliance sometimes breaks down somewhere between being pragmatic and being compliant.

Electrical Incident Investigation

This webinar explains the importance of assembling a multidisciplinary investigation team and establishing systems to understand what requires investigations.

NFPA 70E 2024 Updates and Related Standards

This webinar will focus more on the impact of the NFPA® 70E 2024 changes on the electrical industry. This is a good webinar for new end-users to learn about electrical hazards. 

NFPA 70E Standard Updates

This webinar will highlight the benefits for businesses and utilities to adopt the principles of a national consensus standard, NFPA 70E – Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace.

Reviewing Basics of Electrical Safety

This webinar explained the arc flash and electrical shock hazards and the mechanisms of injury.

Common Tasks That Can Lead to Arc Flash Incidents

This webinar examines common equipment and tasks that can lead to arc flash and shock incidents.

LV Electrical Safety for HV Qualified Persons

Many rules and regulations govern high-voltage work. High-voltage personnel not only understand the dangers but take cautionary measures to ensure their safety and the safety of others when working with high-voltage.

Low Voltage Considerations for Utilities & Commercial Facilities

This webinar has safety specialists and practitioners in mind but all those who work on or near electrical equipment are welcome. Learn the similarities and differences between low and high voltage, join the discussion on risk assessments and mitigation techniques, and gain wisdom from a case study.

How NFPA 70E & Other Standards Establish Electrical High Voltage Safety

This webinar first defines and then discusses the standards and regulations for low and high voltage installations. 

Human Error: Preventing Electrical Safety Problems

This webinar will explore just how big of an impact human performance can have on keeping employees safe from electrical hazards.

Arc Flash Calculations Based on IEEE 1584.1

Zarheer Jooma will lead the discussion on how a plant and a third-party subject matter expert (SME) can work together to meet all the requirements of an arc flash hazard calculation study. He will use IEEE 1584.1 as a guide. 

How Xcel Built an Arc Flash Electrical Safety Program

Eduardo Ramirez-Bettoni of Xcel Energy and Morgan McNeal of Perficient will talk about how to establish an arc flash safety program that complies with OSHA safety standards. You will learn from their experiences how to transform a safety program and gain all that they discovered along the way.

Implementing Continuous Improvement in Electrical Safety

What happens when a company trains its workers and purchases PPE but then continues to experience electrical injuries that result in worker injury? Zarheer Jooma and Hugh Hoagland will discuss their observations in what could be causing these occurrences.

Equipment Labeling for Electrical Arc Flash and Shock Hazards

This webinar will look in detail at the information on an electrical hazard label to help you answer those questions. The speakers will go over the risk assessment process and discuss associated risk control methods.

NFPA 2112:2018 Flash Fire Certified Gloves

Join our webinar on September 9th to hear Eric Jaeger from Ironclad Performance Wear, Erik Key from DuPont Personal Protection, and Brian Shiels from Arcwear.

Looking at the e-Hazard Safety Cycle: An AEC Exclusive Webinar

The webinar introduces e-Hazard Safety Cycle™: Envision, Execute, Evaluate and Evolve that was specifically designed to keep workers safe and ensure uptime.

NFPA 70E 2021 Proposals: Changes to Consider for Your Electrical Safety Program

See the proposed changes for the 2021 Edition of the NFPA 70E standard and how they could effect your workplace.

Changes to NFPA 70E 2018 Affecting PPE

This webinar addresses updates and changes that affect PPE in the 2018 NFPA 70E standard.

NFPA 70E Changes for 2018 and Practical Implementation

Go through the main changes found in the updated NFPA 70E standard and learn how to practically implement the 2018 changes.

Standards Updates Affecting Flame, Arc and High Visibility Clothing for 2017

The webinar will explore proposed changes in NFPA 70E, NFPA 2112, ANSI/ISEA 107 and a new arc flash protection standard for multi-material protector gloves. These proposed changes could change PPE purchasing specifications and buying patterns for garments, gloves and other PPE affecting electrical workers and petrochemical workers.

Risk Assessment in the Design Phase

Discussion includes developing an electrical safety program by identifying hazards, assessing risks, and implementing the hierarchy of risk control methods. There is also a focus on engineering designs and adopting a forward-looking strategy rather than “chasing safety afterward.”

Lessons from Accident Investigations for Electrical Safety

With over 160 accident investigations some common themes show up valuable in developing PPE programs, training for electrical safety and doing accident investigations. Asking the right questions and observing the evidence give insights into worker behavior.

Care and Maintenance of PPE for Arc Flash and Flash Fire: Incidents and Issues for Practical Applications

Laundry concerns and chemical outcomes for workers using flame resistant garments will be dealt with including conflicting studies on off gassing and other rumors and some facts on multiple flame resistant fabrics.

Arc Flash and Flash Fire Protection for the Hands

New and proposed standards to make protection better. New arc flash protector glove standard and arc flash glove test methods will increase the quality of protection and multi-hazard protection for hands for cut, puncture, arc and potentially flash fire.

Hugh Hoagland Presents: Specialty PPE in Arc Flash to meet NFPA 70E

From clean rooms to nuclear facilities to food processing and chemical, there are many PPE challenges which are not addressed in the NFPA 70E standard. How do you deal with these challenges?

Ask your questions and we’ll focus on answering them after covering some of the common specialty questions I get every month. This will be our most interactive webinar this year.

Critical Changes in NFPA 70E Affecting Industry

The 2015 edition of the NFPA 70E standard includes a major change in how stakeholders evaluate electrical risk – so that owners, managers, and employees can work together to ensure an electrically safe working area and comply with OSHA 1910 Subpart S and OSHA 1926 Subpart K. There are updated tables, a new subsection in 130.2 (A)(4) that provides requirements where normal operation of electric equipment is permitted, and Annex E has been updated to correlate with the redefined terminology associated with hazard and risk.

New OSHA Standard 1910.269 Changes

Find out how the new OSHA standard changes everything for generation, transmission and distribution. Join electrical safety expert Hugh Hoagland for this informative webinar focusing on the changes to OSHA standard 1910.269 and 1926.950-60. Topics will include an overview of the changes and practical advice on meeting the new standard for utilities.

Driving Electrical Safety in Your Plant

The proper use of personal protective equipment (PPE) is a critical component of any electrical safety program yet proper PPE use often is overlooked, diminished, or simply disregarded by electrical workers in manufacturing. Plant Engineering presented this Webcast on December 5th, 2013 discussing the importance of PPE to mitigate arc flash dangers and other electrical safety issues.

Update on OSHA Electrical Safety Regulations

OSHA is changing the regulations from the 1910.269, 1926, and 1910.300 series affecting utilities, construction, and general industry. This electrical safety webinar reviews these changes and their impact on companies in these industries. Registration required.

OSHA Changes to Electrical Safety Regulations

In March 2013, OSHA made several changes to the regulations from 1910.269, 1926 and 1910.300 series affecting utilities, construction and general industry. This webinar reviewed these changes and their impact on industry.

Most companies following the latest version of NFPA 70E or the NESC will be unaffected as these regulations bring the OSHA standards into compliance with the 2012 versions of these documents with a few adjustments.