SAFE SWITCHGEAR ISOLATION AND PERSONAL PROTECTIVE GROUNDING CERTIFICATION

This customized one day course will certify that your electrical workers are proven qualified for the electrical tasks that they are performing as specified by Occupational Health and Safety regulations, CSA Z460 and Z462, the Criminal Code of Canada and industry standards. It is 80% hands-on and will certify that your successful participants truly have the knowledge, and can demonstrate the skills, to perform their electrical operating tasks safely and properly.

It encompasses both outdoor and indoor substations with the major emphasis on indoor substations and electrical rooms. The course is taught by substation safety professionals each with over 30 years of hands-on maintenance, testing and troubleshooting experience with exemplary safety records working in generating stations, substations and plants.

The course is taught using Canada Training Groups Lab Two, a 53' highway trailer outfitted with 25kV, 15kV, 5kV and 480/600V electrical equipment with full cutaways giving complete access to the equipment during switching and racking.

This lab is set up to allow your participants to conduct potential tests, isolations, switching, phasing, lockout/tagout, and apply safety grounds using hot sticks. Simple and complex lockout/tagout can be performed combining electrical, mechanical, fluid, process, optical, overhead crane and physical guards with written, verbal, hand signal and radio communication while using Category 2 and 4 PPE. We also have simulated overhead distribution lines with fuses, cutouts, switches and grounding capability.

This lab contains: 1 - 25kV mini-OCB, 1 15kV VCB, 1 15kV S&C fused distribution load break disconnect with manual and pneumatic operation, 1 5kV ACB with puffer, 1 5kV vacuum motor starter, 1 600V switchgear column with two ACBs, 1 - 600V MCC with motor starters, 1- 600V switchboard with breakers and starters, 2 - 600V buses with tie breaker, 1 - 600V panelboard, numerous 600V load break and safety isolation disconnects, overhead crane simulator, voltage detectors, HV voltmeter, HV amprobe, hot sticks, static sticks, ground clusters and DLRO, phasing sticks, switching sticks, rubber gloves, rubber and other cover ups, racking rails, overhead hoist and CB lifting hooks, two way radios, locks, tags and specialized inductance demonstrator.

All our equipment is in complete switchgear and can be racked in and out providing an exact replication of common substation activities as well as mechanical binding issues.

We guarantee to certify that your workers are qualified to work safely and competently on your electrical systems in both normal and emergency situations.

This course will benefit any worker who wants to continue enjoying their children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

Canada Training Group has trained 23,000 industrial workers since 1980 and has been training HV electrical workers on personal protective grounding and safe switchgear operation since 1981 with extensive experience on 4,160V to 13.8kV systems. The instructional design has been done to the standards of the Canadian Society for Training and Development, the American Society for Training and Development, and the International Board of Standards for Training, Performance and Instruction. This training incorporates the work of Bloom, Mager, Harless, Kirkpatrick, Kolb and Gardner and follows the ADDIE ISD process. The instructional design leader is Dave Smith; he has been a qualified instructional designer since 1968 and is the 2014 recipient of two international Mensa awards. The Mensa Education and Research Foundation has awarded Dave the International Intellectual Benefits to Society Award for his dedicated work in electrical safety, as well as the International Copper Black Award for Creative Achievement for his design and development of three mobile electrical training labs. He is the first Canadian to win an international Mensa award and the only person in Mensa history to ever win two awards. Dave diligently applies his unique talents to industrial electrical training. Our instructors for this program are: Jim Harrington started his electrical career in 1961 and completed a distinguished 32 year career with Ontario Hydro as a power maintenance electrician and has maintained all equipment that you will find in substations up to 500kV. In 1973 he joined the Orangeville Training Center and co-developed the Ontario Hydro electrical apprenticeship and journeyman upgrading programs and was responsible for all trades training when he retired. He is an easy-going and highly skilled instructor who is very popular with his students and his 53 years of HV experience make him a unique instructor in North America. Terry Yonkheym began his electrical training in 1962 subsequently joining Ontario Hydro where he maintained station equipment to 230kV including transformers, breakers, jet engine driven generator units, and commissioned thermal generating plant switchyards. He spent 20 years as an instructor at Ontario Hydros Orangeville Training Center teaching electrical testing, troubleshooting and maintenance to apprentices and journeymen. Students appreciate Terrys 52 years of HV experience. Ross Dion joined Ontario Hydro in 1964 as an apprentice at the Sir Adam Beck Generating Station in Niagara Falls. His almost 30 years with Hydro included responsibilities in generation, transmission and distribution stations up to 345 kV. Ross was finishing his career as the Windsor District Maintenance Manager when his unique skills and experience were requested for a two year stint helping create Ontario Hydros Safe Work Methods system. Within his busy career, Ross still took time for his part time teaching duties at Ontario Hydros world famous Orangeville Training Center. With 50 years of accident free high-voltage electrical experience Ross is keen to pass on his knowledge and experience to his students especially when he is challenging the know-it-alls. Ed Rideout began his electrical career in 1969 as an RCAF communications technician then became an electrical technologist and Marine Electrician followed by 32 years at Nova Scotia Power with experience to 275 kV retiring as the maintenance manager of a thermal generating station. Ed was a key technical specialist within NSP and his 45 years of HV experience ensure that students understand the job hazards of electrical testing and maintenance. Blaine Tapp joined Ontario Hydro in 1970 and spent his career maintaining generating, transmission and distribution stations up to 500 kV. He was also an instructor at Orangeville and gained extensive experience providing advanced substation safety training throughout Ontario. At the end of his career Blaine was provincially responsible for all metal clad switchgear, grounding and temporary grounding, bus and insulators, as well as oil and SF6 breakers. After his initial retirement he returned on contract to Ontario Power Generation to develop their Temporary Protective Grounding and Bonding Guide and co-author their Station Grounding

and Bonding guide. Blaines 44 years of high-voltage experience make him an exceptional instructor as he truly has written the book. Joe Silva started his electrical career in 1971 at Pearson International Airport in Toronto eventually becoming manager of all electrical maintenance in the airport. With 43 years of experience in electrical safety, troubleshooting and maintenance on systems up to 27.6kV, Joe is a tremendous resource in any electrical training classroom and is renowned throughout the Canadian airport industry. Dave Neal joined Ontario Hydro in 1975 and completed his career as an instructor at their Orangeville training center. He provided safety, testing, maintenance and troubleshooting training to apprentices and journeyman on generators, transformers, circuit breakers, switchgear, cables, motors, batteries & chargers and protection and control systems up to 550 kV. His 39 years of high-voltage experience make him an engaging and interesting electrical safety instructor as he has been there, seen it and got the T-shirt. Dave regularly teaches plant personnel how to safely and properly disconnect and reconnect their main substations to the utility grid whether it is a 138kV pipeline compressor station or a 500kV wind farm. Fred Tanguay started his career in 1979 as a power electrical technologist and Marine engineering specialist in the Canadian Navy followed by a career in the power generation and transmission industry specializing in testing, maintenance, commissioning, troubleshooting and engineering of systems to 230kV. His 35 years of exceptional and extensive HV experience include careers with Rondar and Black & McDonald, two of Canadas largest field service firms. A noted author and speaker Fred is highly regarded in the field service industry. Jim Roberts began his electrical career in 1980. Graduating from the Georgian College Electrical Engineering program, his 34 year career started at Toronto Hydro Electrical Systems as a High Voltage Underground Cable Fault Technician. He then proceeded to Toronto Transit Commission where he was responsible for over 67 km of subway system and all facilities on a 24/7 electrical emergency response team with AC and DC experience to 27.6kV. Since 2000 he supervised over 95 maintenance electricians, coordinated major shutdowns to facilities for bi-annual electrical maintenance, assisted electricians on major faults in high and low voltage equipment. Jim has expertise in electrical troubleshooting techniques, print reading, lockout/tag out, work protection code, H.V. switching and the Canadian Electrical Code. These men have performed every operation possible in generating stations, substations and plants thousands of times in both normal and emerge