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Boston's electrical work is concentrated in its hospitals, universities and transit system, along with One Summer Street, the downtown data center building that holds about 100 network providers. We train the electricians and facility crews who work across Greater Boston, at your facility or in an in-person class we set up in Boston when you ask.
Massachusetts runs a state plan for public employees only. Private employers are inspected by federal OSHA. Every class is live, on the 2027 edition of NFPA 70E, and taught by a Certified Safety Professional. Massachusetts electrical safety training requirements →
Among the teams we have trained in the last year
Four ways to train your Boston crew
Crews we train in and around Boston: hospitals and health care, universities and research, transit and airport, data centers and telecom, electrical contractors, public employers.
What the class covers for Boston crews
The Board of State Examiners of Electricians issues Class A master and Class B journeyman licenses, and journeymen must carry theirs on the job. The license covers the trade. NFPA 70E qualification on your equipment is still yours to train and document as the employer.
Medical and research buildings rarely get a convenient window to drop a feeder. We cover the decision between an outage and justified energized work, and how to document it.
Since 2022, Massachusetts has run an OSHA-approved plan for state and municipal workers through the Department of Labor Standards. City and state electrical crews now need the same documented training as private crews.
Boston's older building stock keeps getting retrofitted for new uses. More load on an old service means updated studies and labels, and we cover how crews should treat gear whose label predates the change.
Boston at a glance
Federal OSHA (private); DLS (public)
Eversource
Class A master, Class B journeyman
BOS (Logan)
Eastern
Massachusetts: what applies to your crews
Enforcement: federal OSHA and DLS
Private employers in Boston are under federal OSHA. In 2022 OSHA granted initial approval to a Massachusetts state plan, run by the Department of Labor Standards, that covers state and municipal employees only.
Licensing: master and journeyman
The Board of State Examiners of Electricians, within the Division of Occupational Licensure, issues Class A master and Class B journeyman electrician licenses. Journeymen must carry their license and show it on request.
Where NFPA 70E fits
NFPA 70E is a consensus standard, not an OSHA regulation. Employers and inspectors use it to show how the electrical requirements in OSHA 1910 Subpart S and 1926 Subpart K are met, and OSHA can cite the General Duty Clause for recognized arc flash and shock hazards.
Boston's electrical work environment
Hospitals dominate Boston's list of top employers. Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's, Dana-Farber, Beth Israel Deaconess, Boston Children's and Boston Medical Center are all among the city's largest, and four of them sit in the Longwood Medical Area. Their facility electricians maintain emergency power and patient care systems that cannot simply be switched off.
Downtown, Markley runs One Summer Street as a 920,000 square foot data center with about 100 network providers inside. Markley lists a 2N electrical architecture for all critical IT loads, so the facility team maintains two independent paths of gear.
The MBTA is also one of the city's biggest employers, and its subway, bus and commuter rail systems need electrical maintenance at all hours. Logan International Airport and the universities round out the picture.
Eversource and ISO New England
Eversource delivers electricity in Boston. Its Massachusetts business grew out of NSTAR and Boston Edison, and it serves about 1.7 million customers in the state.
Massachusetts is part of the ISO New England grid. Inside the city, large institutions own a great deal of their own electrical infrastructure, including switchgear, emergency generators and transfer equipment. That gear, and the safety program for working on it, is the owner's responsibility.
Who we train in Boston and Greater Boston
Facilities electricians at Mass General, Brigham and Women's, Boston Children's, Beth Israel Deaconess and Boston Medical Center.
Campus electrical shops and lab facility teams at Boston's universities and research institutes.
MBTA maintenance crews and contractors, plus facility teams at Logan International Airport.
Critical facilities staff at One Summer Street and enterprise data rooms downtown.
Licensed masters and journeymen on renovation, lab fit-out and new construction work across Greater Boston.
City, state and school maintenance staff, now covered by the Massachusetts state plan.
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Questions from Boston employers
Do you have a scheduled class in Boston?
Can you train a hospital facilities team in Boston?
We are a city department. Does the state plan affect our electrical training?
Our journeymen are licensed. Do they still need NFPA 70E training?
Does finishing the class make someone a qualified electrical worker?
What the people in the room say
“Virtual can never replace hands-on, but the engagement from our instructor and the class made it feel more engaging than some in-person courses I've taken.”
“Probably one of the most useful safety courses I've ever attended. Rick genuinely cares about people and their well-being.”
“This is the 2nd arc flash training course I've taken and the class was amazing. I feel like I'm leaving the training safer than before I took this class.”
Train your Boston crew on the 2027 edition.
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