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Aug 31, 2024
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SKEL 104 - Electric Substation Worker OrientationCredits: 2 Provides participants with a basic understanding of a career as an electric substation worker: installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting electrical substation equipment comprised of power transformers, circuit breakers, switches, conductors, insulators, and instrumentation & controls.
Prerequisite(s): None Corequisite(s): None Lecture Hours: 18 Lab Hours: 12 Meets MTA Requirement: None Pass/NoCredit: Yes
Outcomes and Objectives
- Understand the expectations of an electric substation worker career.
- Identify the dangers and hazards associated with electric substation.
- Electricity and shocks.
- Pneumatic systems.
- Hydraulic fluid and energy.
- Spring energy.
- Fluids.
- Gases.
- Falls and other injuries.
- Describe the requirements of working aloft using aerial lift devices, scaffolding, and extension/step ladders to perform maintenance, construction, and/or troubleshooting work.
- Explain the need for Personal Protective Equipment.
- Hardhat.
- Safety glasses.
- Natural fiber and fire retardant apparel.
- Fall protection
- Gloves
- Boots.
- Gain basic knowledge regarding the transmission of electric energy.
- Identify and explain:
- Generating facility substations.
- Transmission substations
- Distribution substations.
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