Electrical power distribution products and safety training

General training session information

• Several dates are offered for most classes. Registration and payment are required one to two weeks prior to the class date, depending on class.  All prices are per person, group rates available.
• Travel, hotel and accommodation are the responsibility of the attendee. Hotel recommendations will be supplied with your enrolment confirmation.
• Class size varies. You will be notified if your selected class is full and advised of alternative dates available.

Click on a course below or view our course catalogue for more detail.

Automatic Transfer Switches (ATS) start-up, commissioning and operation

Using classroom instruction and laboratory exercises, attendees will learn about the transfer switch equipment that is currently manufactured by Eaton. The classroom will have hardware demonstrators, including type ATC controllers, contactor-type switches and breaker-type switches. Hands-on activity will comprise at least half of the time spent in training activities. Attendees will meet key product line and support personnel. A plant tour will be included.

Basic Electrical Testing

Preventative maintenance, start-up and commissioning activities require basic electrical tests to be performed to ensure the equipment is in an operable state throughout its life. A combination of various major manufacturers’ test sets are used to perform practical classwork. Testing will be performed on actual equipment providing the student an easier transition from the classroom to the job.

Basic Protective Relay Testing

Protective relays are used for the electrical protection of distribution equipment such as transformers, substation equipment and electrical transmission lines. Abnormal conditions, phase differentials, overcurrent and overvoltage are topics discussed for prevention of equipment damage and safety. Understanding the functions of Current Transformer (CT) and Voltage Transformer (VT) ratios, polarity and operating principles as they apply to relaying are essential to the relay protection system and are covered in the course. Various manufacturers’ relays will be used for a realistic hands-on reinforcement of classroom-taught material, along with demonstrations for the best experience and education. Review of drawings depicting a range of complexity of relay schemes AC and DC will also be covered.

Understanding and  Overview of LV and MV Electrical Drawings

Using drawings from various distribution systems and equipment, attendees will learn standard symbols and drawing styles used to represent electrical distribution systems and equipment. Attendees will be able to relate the physical equipment to drawings that will assist in LOTO planning and implementation, start-up and commissioning activities and troubleshooting.

Electrical and Arc Flash Safety

Personnel safety is the most important concern in the workplace. The NFPA 70E sets standards for electrical safety in the work environment and keeps workers safe while working on or around electrically energised equipment. IEEE 1584 sets the industry standard for evaluating the arc flash hazards in a power distribution system and its equipment. 29CFR1910 subparts R and S tie these standards and governmental regulations for electrical safety together. OSHA mandates regarding electrical safety in the workplace specifically requires employer assessment of generally recognised hazards in the workplace, and provisions for protecting the employee from those hazards.

Electrical Safety for the Qualified Worker​

This course provides workers exposed to electrical hazards with the knowledge and skill sets for electrical safe work practices, lockout/tagout, shock and arc flash hazard assessments and job hazard analysis as required by OSHA and NFPA 70E. More importantly, it provides employees with the skills necessary to maintain a safe work environment and return home safely.   ​

This course provides both traditional classroom instruction and hands-on demonstrations of safe work practices. Skill demonstrations and lab exercises include donning PPE, checking for the absence of voltage, creating and executing a LOTO procedure, grounding and establishing an electrically safe work condition. ​

Hazardous Energy Control

This course teaches engineers and technicians how to recognise and  mitigate hazards in the work environment, along with methods of  controlling additional hazards previously overlooked. The class will contain demonstrations and limitations of metering devices and the  how/why they should be used.

Industrial Power Systems Analysis I

Using classroom exercises and demonstrations, this training programme reviews the fundamental techniques of power systems analysis. Although it is not intended to teach the use of power systems analysis software, the instructors will use laptop computers in the classroom and review examples to help explain the construction of system single-line diagrams and the calculation of short-circuit current.

Industrial Power Systems Analysis II

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to use manufacturer time current curves to coordinate a power distribution system and protect the distribution equipment from available faults and overloads. This program also ensures attendees can use the latest IEEE 1584 equations to calculate the incident energy in an arcing fault situation. 

Overcurrent Protection Workshop

Like no other workshop, this one provides a combination of experienced engineers, hands-on-learning and technical information as well as a comprehensive reference manual. Eaton offers the unique combination of real-world, everyday problem-solving skills and instructors with extensive hands-on field experience. The reference materials binder, specially prepared for this course, is a thorough resource written by Eaton Power Systems engineers, and includes practical information to help you accomplish your day-to-day objectives.

Overvoltage Protection Workshop

Discover how to economically prevent excessive transient overvoltage from damaging electric utility distribution systems equipment or interrupting normal power system operation in this course. Problems allow students to explore standard and extraordinary conditions where standard overvoltage protection applications may not be effective. Students will learn how to make overvoltage protection schemes as effective as possible within given economic constraints. Installations of actual utility distribution equipment in Eaton’s Power Systems Experience Centre are used to illustrate a variety of surge arrester applications and the protected equipment, as well as to demonstrate concepts and transient phenomena.

Power Quality Monitoring and Analysis

This course teaches engineers and technicians how to diagnose power quality problems and perform measurements of sags, swells, voltage transients, harmonic distortion and voltage flicker. More than half of the time in this training programme is dedicated to hands-on practice using a variety of popular models of portable and panel-mount power monitors. Students are also encouraged to bring their own analysers to discover new uses for them in our Power Systems Experience Center.

Switchgear Maintenance

Using classroom and training laboratory exercises, attendees learn how to classify switchgear and switchgear components. Nameplate ratings for circuit breakers and switchgear assemblies are discussed and identified on actual equipment. Maintenance of switchgear assemblies and assemblies components is discussed along with how to properly maintain power circuit breakers and moulded case breakers. ​

Transformer start-up & maintenance ​

Using classroom and training laboratory exercises, attendees learn how to perform commissioning and maintenance tests on unit substation and power transformers. Students will become familiar with transformer basics such as standard operating principles and standardised terminal markings. Construction characteristics, inspections and tests of dry-type and liquid-immersed transformers will be discussed.