Rick Hauf, CSP.
Certified Safety Professional with more than 35 years in environmental health and safety, delivering NFPA 70E electrical safety training nationally — about 25 classes a year to electricians, EHS professionals and enterprise clients. Training evaluations average 9.7 out of 10.
He is not a curriculum developer who also teaches. He is a practitioner who spends the rest of the week inside operating facilities, and brings that week into the room.
§ Background
- Certified Safety Professional (CSP) — the credential, held and current.
- 35+ years in EHS across industrial and critical facilities environments.
- National NFPA 70E delivery — roughly 25 classes a year, open enrollment and private onsite.
- Enterprise clients — including large-scale technology and utility organizations.
- Author of this site — every technical page here is reviewed before it publishes.
§ How he teaches
- Decisions, not definitions. The class is organized around the calls a qualified person has to make, not around the table of contents.
- Real incidents. Including the ones that are uncomfortable, because those are the ones people remember.
- Your equipment where possible. Onsite classes run against the site's own one-lines, labels and permit forms.
- Questions get answered. The 9.7 average comes from the room, and the room rewards an instructor who will say "that depends, and here is what it depends on."
§ Why this matters for a data center
Most NFPA 70E instructors teach a general-industry class. Most data center safety consultants treat electrical as one line item on a broad EHS menu. The combination — a CSP with full-practice breadth and the depth that comes from teaching 70E twenty-five times a year — is rare, and it is the reason this site can carry both the electrical depth and the OSHA breadth without either one being thin.
Live classes, weekly
Open enrollment, virtual instructor-led, or private onsite anywhere in the country.
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