Digital Online Learning: Electricity at Work Regulations

There are no prerequisites for this course.

• Identify the legal requirements of the relationship of the regulations with other codes of practice.
• Understand and explain the implications of the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989.
• Identify who are specified as competent persons within the regulations.

• Citation & Commencement
• Interpretation
• Duties
• Systems, work activities and protective equipment
• Strength and capability of electrical equipment
• Adverse or hazardous environments
• Insulation, protection and placing of conductors
• Earthing or other suitable precautions
• Integrity of referenced conductors
• Connections
• Means for protecting from excess of current
• Means for cutting off the supply and for isolation
• Precaution for work on equipment made dead
• Work on or near live conductors
• Working space, access and lighting
• Persons to be competent to prevent danger and injury
• Defence

On completion of the full digital programme each delegate will undertake a multiple-choice examination paper to demonstrate they have achieved the key learning outcomes detailed above. The assessment has a pass mark of 80%.