Electrical power distribution products and safety training

Meet our instructors

Eaton’s electrical products and safety workshops, seminars and classes are conducted by electrical safety, power quality, electrical analysis and OSHA and NFPA 70E trained engineers who perform thousands of power systems, power quality and arc flash analyses each year, as well as serve on IEEE and other industry boards to help develop safety standards. Instructors may include:

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.

Training courses include:

• Overvoltage Protection Workshop
• Overcurrent Protection Workshop
• Power Quality Monitoring and Analysis
• Electrical Arc Flash Safety
• Drawing Reading & Usage
• Industrial Power System Analysis I
• Industrial Power System Analysis II
  
• Safety training for qualified electrical workers
• Basic electrical testing and switchgear 
• Low-voltage motor controllers and motor control centres 
• Protective relay testing 
• Transformer start-up & maintenance 

Overvoltage Protection Workshop

Find out how to economically prevent excessive transient overvoltages from damaging electric utility distribution systems equipment or interrupting normal power system operation in Eaton’s two-day Overvoltage Protection Workshop. The workshop is designed for utility distribution engineers or any engineer who is involved with design or implementation of overvoltage protection schemes for utility distribution systems.

The goal of this two-day workshop is to explain how various overvoltage protection schemes are designed and to instruct on how to solve practical and realistic overvoltage problems. Problems allow students to explore standard as well as extraordinary conditions, where standard overvoltage protection schemes 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.

Class topics include: 

• Basic overvoltage protection
• Basic insulation level (BIL)
• Insulation coordination
• Sources of system overvoltages
• Arrester fundamentals
• Application of arresters and other overvoltage protection schemes
• Distribution equipment protection
• Overhead and underground systems protection
• Substation protection
• Switching transients
• Low-voltage surge protection
  

Overcurrent Protection Workshop

Get hands-on experience learning how to apply overcurrent protection schemes to electric utility distribution systems in Eaton's three-day Overcurrent Protection Workshop. Any engineer who is involved with design or operation of overcurrent protection schemes for utilities will benefit. The workshop will be more beneficial to you if you have a working knowledge of overcurrent protection devices.

During this workshop, you will learn system coordination rules and procedures to incorporate into your daily routine, including:

• Fuse-to-fuse expulsion and current-limiting coordination
• Transformer fusing protection
• Protection with sectionalisers
• Recloser and source-side coordination
• Recloser and load-side coordination
• Electronically and hydraulically controlled recloser coordination
• Exposure to Eaton’s CYME™ power engineering software
• Overcurrent relay coordination with fuses and reclosers

Students will use Eaton’s CYME power engineering software in the many examples and case studies chosen to illustrate the protection concepts. 

Power Quality Monitoring and Analysis

The Power Quality Monitoring and Analysis seminar is designed for engineers and technicians who want to know how to identify, analyse and correct power quality problems in industrial and commercial power systems. You will learn and practice these techniques in our Power Systems Experience Centre where we are able to produce, monitor and measure actual power interruptions, transient overvoltage events and harmonics currents in our 480-volt three phase distribution system.

More than 50% of the time is dedicated to hands-on practice using a variety of portable and panel-mount monitors and analysers. Solution demonstrations include sag ride-thru, surge protection, filters, active filters, phase-shifting, etc. Students are also encouraged to bring their own analysers to learn new uses for them. Each training programme participant receives a comprehensive classroom reference manual and flash drive.

Programme content

• Power quality fundamentals – disturbances, harmonics, transients, grounding, example waveforms, equipment tolerances, ITIC, IEEE 519-2014 and IEC Standards
• Techniques for identifying and analysing power quality problems
• Actual case studies and their real-world solutions

Practice sessions include:

• Build your own equipment tolerance diagram
• Monitoring transients, subcycle disturbances and flicker
• Monitoring harmonics
• Evaluating power quality problems using power monitor data
• Special considerations for making measurements in high-resistance grounded distribution systems and delta-wye power transformer circuits 

Electrical Arc Flash Safety

Come to this informative seminar for expert advice on protecting yourself from and mitigate the risks of electrical shock and arc flash hazards. 

Seminar topics include:

• Reduce installation time and save on start-up costs
• Definitions of a qualified person, OSHA 29 CFR 1910.399 and NFPA 70E-2018
• Training on OSHA Standard number 1910.332
• Retraining requirements for NFPA 70E
• Understanding of hazards of electrical work
• Maintaining a safe work area
• Emergency training and procedures
• Hazardous energy control programme (HECP)
• Lockout/tagout procedure
• Requirements for protective grounding equipment
• Procedure for using temporary grounding conductors
• Working in a situation where an arc flash hazard exists
• Energised electrical work permit
• Job briefing
• Approach boundaries
• Arc flash boundary
• Arc flash risk assessment
• Selecting and using personal protective equipment and insulated tools
• Arc-rated clothing

Drawing Reading & Usage

This training programme is a fundamental requirement for engineers whose career path involves understanding power distribution equipment construction and system application.  It is recommended for field service engineers, application engineers, sales engineers, technicians and others who want a solid understanding of reading and understanding Eaton drawings.

Topics covered include:

•  Standard drawing sizes
• Title blocks
•  Power system drawings
  • One-line diagrams
  • Riser diagrams
  • Impedance diagrams
•  Equipment drawings
  • Three-line diagrams
  • Control schematics
•  Wiring diagrams
  • Medium-voltage assemblies
  • Low-voltage assemblies
• IEEE device function numbers
• Standard symbols
  

Industrial Power Systems Analysis I

Upon completion of the Industrial Power Systems Analysis I training programme, you will be able to recognise the several forms of power system single-line diagrams, calculate short-circuit current and evaluate the application of power circuit breakers and power fuses. Using classroom exercises and demonstrations, this training programme reviews the fundamental techniques of power systems analysis. Although this training programme is not intended to teach the use of power systems analysis software, the instructors will use laptop computers in the classroom and review examples created with SKM Power*Tools® for Windows® to help explain the construction of system single-line diagrams and the calculation of short-circuit current. This training programme is recommended for electrical engineers.

Programme content

• Introduction to power systems analysis: basic unit relationships (voltage/current/power); ANSI device/function numbers
• Three-phase power fundamentals: power triangle, power factor, phasor diagrams, the per-unit system
• Distribution equipment: transformers, induction machines, synchronous machines
• Short-circuit analysis: sources of fault current, symmetrical short circuits, modelling a power system, making impedance diagrams
• Unbalanced fault currents: derivation of non-symmetrical phasors from their symmetrical components, positive/negative/zero sequence networks, three-phase vs single-line-to-ground and line-to-line faults
• Data collection, short-circuit calculations, protective device ratings, device evaluations, main-tie-main closed-transition applications, capacitive switching
• Course examination

Industrial Power Systems Analysis II

Upon successful completion of Industrial Power Systems Analysis II you will be able to identify the settings of protective devices to properly protect a power distribution system per the National Electric Code (NFPA 70), demonstrate coordination analysis skills in a small power distribution system by reading manufacturers time current curves and drawing system time current curves, and apply IEEE and NFPA standards at various locations within a power distribution system to calculate the incident energy during a worst-case arc flash event.

Safety training for qualified electrical workers​

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. ​

• Definitions of a qualified person, OSHA 29 CFR 1910.399 and NFPA 70E-2018​
• Training on OSHA Standard number 1910.332​
• Re-training requirements for NFPA 70E​
• Understanding of hazards of electrical work​
• Maintaining a safe work area​
• Emergency training and procedures​
• Hazardous energy control programme (HECP)​
• Lockout/tagout procedure​
• Requirements for protective grounding equipment​
• Procedure for using temporary grounding conductors​
• Working in a situation where an arc flash hazard exists​
• Energized electrical work permit​
• Job briefing​
• Arc flash boundary​
• Arc flash risk assessment​
• Selecting and using personal protective equipment and insulated tools​
• Arc-rated clothing

Basic electrical testing and switchgear 

Learn the fundamentals of basic electrical testing required for start-up, commissioning and preventative maintenance. You will perform hands-on testing, including insulation resistance, primary resistance and secondary injection testing, along with verifying operation of zone selective interlocking, maintenance mode and switchgear mechanical interlocks.

Low-voltage motor controllers and motor control centres 

In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of motors, motor controls centers, starters, UL and NEC requirements.  Attendees will perform hands-on activities, including design and construction of combination starters, along with troubleshooting of inserted faults.

Protective relay testing ​

This course is for maintenance technicians, electricians, engineers or any others who are responsible for maintaining a safe and reliable electrical power distribution system in an industrial or commercial facility.​

• Introduction to basic relays ​
• Power triangle calculations​
• Phasor diagrams​
• CT and VT construction and connections as they apply to relaying and metering circuits​
• Relay test equipment​
• Understanding phase and ground short circuit, detection and safe clearing​
• Testing activities include electromechanical and microprocessor styles

Transformer start-up & maintenance ​

This course is designed for electrical and maintenance personnel who are responsible for power transformers. General operating principles and construction characteristics of power transformers are covered, along with testing for common styles. Start-up and maintenance of liquid-immersed and dry type are included with hands-on training.​

• Operational principles​
• Constructions characteristics​
• Tests common to all types​
• Start-up and maintenance of dry types​
• Start-up and maintenance of liquid immersed ​