City and Guilds Safe Electrical Isolation of Low Voltage Systems

Your company might have to entrust electrical isolation tasks not only to electrical personnel, but also to non-electrical staff with some experience of electrical systems (and who may require authorisation to carry out isolation for maintenance purposes)

Including formal Permit to Work procedures for on-site operation, this course provides staff with the knowledge needed to perform safe isolation of low voltage systems and equipment.

Course content

  • Overview and relevance of low voltage safety rules.
  • Associated procedures, basic risk assessment and documentation prior to isolation.
  • Types of isolating devices.
  • Methods of isolation.
  • Proving or verifying an isolation.
  • Controlling isolation.
  • Removing an isolation and returning a system to normal operation.

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