Lineworker Training (Technical and Safety)

Training Opportunities for:
Municipal electric utilities, Rural electrical cooperatives, Private utilities, Contractors, Universities, Industrial facilities

Course Objectives

• Display proficiency with lineworker duties
• Display proficiency with equipment and materials
• Identify hazards associated with line work
• Display knowledge of OSHA mandated rules CFR 1910.269
• Perform and complete "Qualified employee training"
• Understand and construct overhead and underground systems
• Perform and understand transformer theory and connections
• Perform and complete climber training
• Display proficiency with electric metering process

Topics

• Journeyman lineworker training
• Apprentice lineworker training
• Construction of overhead distribution
• Construction of underground distribution
• Equipment operation
• Poletop and bucket rescue
• Climbing training and qualification
• Rubber gloving work
• Meter Tech training
• Pulling underground conductors in manholes
• Transformer theory and training
• Directional boring and trenching
• Excavation and shoring
• Fault finding
• Locating
• Substation construction and operation
• For a complete lineworker training list please call MMUA

Sample Program for Apprentice lineworker training week program
(Level #1 No lineworker experience)

• OSHA regulations CFR 1910.269
• Material identification and slang names
• Equipment identification and operation
• Identification of electrical hazards
• Safe operation of bucket and digger trucks
• Beginning climbing
• Beginning transformer theory
• Overhead construction on beginner modules

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