GROUNDING SYSTEM TESTING 101 FOR GROUPS

This web training program and at your facility exercise gives your personnel the opportunity to acquire the knowledge to perform testing and the parameters to maintain the grounding system reliable and operational. Proper testing will help to prioritize your PM program and proof reliability.

Training of your personnel is vital to ensure that any worker inspecting or interacting with grounding systems is safe and has the basic skills to determine defects or hazards in the work area and how to document parameters. Organizations such as NETA, IEEE, and others revise and update their testing requirements, procedures, and recommendations regularly.

This is why organizations like yours contract with Power Engineering Inc., to train their personnel in testing procedures and electrical safety 70E.

TRAINING INCLUDES:

Class Room Session:

• Basic Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) necessary

• Definitions of basic terms
• Types of Ground Tests
• Ground System Construction
• How to prepare a test specimen.
• NETA and applicable test standards to determine condition.
• Test report basic analysis

Practice Exercise Session at your facility:

• Experience the use of the test equipment during the practice exercise session.
• The testing of a building and substation grounding system preparation.
• Group could perform the ground resistance test to understand the procedures.