NFPA 70E qualified person training, every week.
Live, instructor-led classes on the 2027 edition for electricians, EHS professionals and critical facilities teams — taught by a CSP with 35 years in the field who delivers this material about 25 times a year and averages 9.7 out of 10.
8-hour and 16-hour NFPA 70E classes, running weekly. Built on the current 2027 edition, with the data center content — 2N isolation, UPS and battery rooms, commissioning boundaries — that generic 70E classes don't cover. Available open-enrollment, virtual, or onsite at your facility.
§ The weekly class
Most 70E training is a slide deck read aloud. This isn't. It's taught by someone who spends the rest of his week inside operating facilities, and the class is built around the decisions your people actually have to make: whether this task needs a permit, which boundary applies, what the label is really telling you, and how to isolate a load that has four sources.
Open enrollment
Weekly public classes. Individual seats, live and instructor-led.
Onsite & private
At your facility, using your one-lines, your gear and your program.
16-hour
Two days, with the calculation, program and Chapter 3 depth an 8-hour can't reach.
§ 8-hour or 16-hour
| 8-Hour Qualified Person | 16-Hour | |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Electricians and technicians who need qualified person training and a current certificate | Facilities and EHS staff who also own the program, the permits and the audits |
| Covers | Articles 105, 110, 120, 130 — hazards, boundaries, PPE, permits, LOTO | All of the 8-hour, plus Chapter 2 maintenance, Chapter 3 special equipment, incident energy methods, and program building |
| Data center content | 2N isolation, UPS and battery rooms | Adds commissioning boundaries, Article 360 battery risk assessment, contractor and host-employer duties |
| Outcome | Certificate of training, documented per 105.3(A) | Certificate, plus program gap notes for your site |
§ Who should attend
- Critical facilities electricians and technicians — anyone who opens a door on energized gear.
- EHS managers and safety professionals — who have to write, audit and defend the electrical safety program.
- Facility and MEP engineers — whose design and switching decisions set the field risk.
- Commissioning agents — working the most dangerous weeks in the building's life.
- Contractors and vendor service technicians — whose qualification the host employer has to verify under 110.5.
- Unqualified staff who enter electrical rooms — security, IT and operations personnel need awareness training, not qualified person training. Ask about the awareness session.
§ What you'll learn
What actually justifies energized work — 130.2(A) block by block, and why "we can't take it down" usually isn't infeasibility.
Establishing an electrically safe work condition — the full 120.6 process, including finding every source in a redundant topology and the new additional-testing requirement.
Shock and arc flash risk assessment — boundaries, the incident energy method versus the PPE category method, and the cases where neither applies.
Reading the label and the study behind it — what condition of maintenance does to the number, and when to stop trusting it.
PPE selection, inspection and retirement — arc-rated clothing, rubber goods and test intervals, and the new contact thermal hand protection requirement.
The 2027 changes — the additional person, Chapter 3 renumbering, sub-50 V ESWC, and what each one requires you to change on Monday.
§ Your instructor
Certified Safety Professional with more than 35 years in EHS, delivering NFPA 70E electrical safety training nationally — roughly 25 classes a year to electricians, EHS professionals and Fortune 500 clients. Training evaluations average 9.7 out of 10. Full bio →
§ For employers
Two things changed in the 2027 edition that matter to whoever signs the training PO.
- Training must be documented — 105.3(A) makes the record explicit, not implied. Every attendee receives a certificate you can put in the file and hand to an inspector.
- Qualification is task- and equipment-specific — 110.4(A)(1)(b). A class alone does not make someone qualified on your 15 kV gear. Training plus site-specific demonstration is what holds up.
- Retraining at intervals not to exceed three years, plus whenever a job change, a new procedure, or an audit finding says sooner.
- Host employers must verify contractor qualifications under 110.5 — training records are part of the prequalification package your GC and owner will ask for anyway.
Reserve a seat, or bring the class to your site
Weekly open-enrollment dates, virtual instructor-led options, and private onsite delivery for teams. Tell us the site and the crew and we'll tell you which format fits.
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