Preventario Preventario

Substation isolation, low voltage

Low voltage is where people stop treating the work as dangerous, and it is where most of them are hurt.

Machinery and tools 20–50 min per run

Low voltage is where people stop being careful.

High voltage work has ceremony around it. Low voltage has none, and it is done far more often, by more people, under more time pressure. The switching itself is straightforward. Proving what is dead, and keeping it dead, is not.

This is the longest of the electrical trainings, because it covers a full switching sequence rather than one step. It is for authorised persons, technicians, and the people who issue and receive permits.

What a team does in it

One run, three parts. A team can go back to any of them as often as it needs, and most do.

  1. 1

    Plan the switching

    A team works out the sequence, what it takes off supply, and who has to be told before anything moves.

  2. 2

    Prove it dead

    They isolate, lock, test, and test the tester, in an order they have to keep to under pressure.

  3. 3

    Hand it over and take it back

    The permit changes hands twice. They go through the words, so nothing is assumed at either end.

What is included

Machinery and tools

Substation isolation, low voltage

20–50 min per run

Included with every module

  • The training itself, repeated as often as you need.
  • Equipment supplied, maintained and replaced.
  • Attendance is recorded and exports into the records you already keep.
  • We run the first sessions with your team, then hand over.

Put it on your shortlist and we go through it together, with nothing to decide yet.

Next to it in the same cluster

Teams that meet this hazard usually meet the others on the same shift. The cluster page Machinery and tools holds all of them together.

Take one switching sequence and run it.

Bring a substation your people work in. We go through the training against it, start to finish.

What happens in the demo

  1. You pick the hazard From your own risk assessment, not from a demo script.
  2. We go through the training Start to finish, the same version your people would get.
  3. We look at your site Who would run it, on which shifts, and what a first group needs.