What types of employees need electrical safety training?

Training requirements apply to employees who face a risk of electric shock that is not reduced to a safe level by the electrical installation requirements.

Employees in these occupations categories or employees face a higher than normal risk of electrical accident are required to be trained:

• Electricians
• Welders

Workers in these groups do not need to be trained if, their work or the work of those they supervise does not bring them or the employees they supervise close enough to exposed parts of electric circuits operating at 50 volts or more to ground for a hazard to exist:

• Blue collar supervisors
• Electrical and electronic engineers
• Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers
• Electrical and electronic technicians.
• Industrial machine operators
• Material handling equipment operators
• Mechanics and repairers
• Painters
• Riggers and roustabouts
• Stationary engineers