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8 hour · 1 day Initial training 2027 edition Live · never recorded

1-Day Qualified Electrical Worker (QEW)

Eight hours of 2027-edition NFPA 70E training for the people who work on or near energized equipment. It is our most-booked class, it is built around your site's own equipment, labels and procedures, and it is the one class we also run as a monthly open session on Microsoft Teams for sites that only need to send one or two people.

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Who it is for

This is initial training. It is also what most sites use for a full retrain, because the standard moved to the 2027 edition on May 6, 2026 and a crew last trained on the 2024 edition is working from superseded material. Four groups fill most of our rooms.

Electricians and electrical technicians.

People who open panels, test for absence of voltage, rack breakers, troubleshoot and restore power. The whole class is aimed at the decisions they make before the cover comes off.

Maintenance staff who work near energized gear.

Mechanics, controls technicians and reliability staff who are not electricians but who work inside electrical rooms and around equipment that is live. They need the boundaries and the permit rules even when they never open a panel.

Supervisors and leads who authorize the work.

If you sign an energized electrical work permit or approve a job plan, you need the same training as the person doing the task. Signing a document you have not been trained to evaluate is the most common gap we find.

Crews whose records have expired.

Retraining is required at intervals not to exceed three years, and sooner when tasks, equipment or procedures change. If your last class was on an older edition, this is the class that resets the record.

Eight hours, in the order the work happens

The day follows a job rather than the table of contents. We start with who is allowed to do the work, move through assessing it, then through getting the equipment into a safe condition, and end with the paperwork that proves it. Where your site has its own labels, procedures and study, we teach against those.

The electrical safety program, and who is qualified
What the employer owes, what the employee owes, and how a qualified person is determined: by equipment and by task, not by job title.

Shock, arc flash, arc blast and contact thermal hazards
What each one does to a person, how incident energy is estimated, and why a label is only a snapshot of the system as studied.

Risk assessment and the hierarchy of controls
Likelihood and severity, elimination first, and the condition-of-maintenance question that decides whether your study still means anything.

Approach boundaries and who may cross them
Limited and restricted approach boundaries for shock, the arc flash boundary, and the 2027 additional-person rule.

PPE selection from the 2027 tables, or from the study
The category method and the incident energy method, when each applies, and why a site uses one or the other for a task.

Establishing an electrically safe work condition
Lockout/tagout under Article 120, verification of absence of voltage, and the tagout device rules as rewritten in 2027.

Energized work permits and job briefings
The permit at 130.3, the justification it demands, the standby person, and a job briefing that protects the person rather than the load.

Competency Check and documentation
A documented check with a 75% minimum, an individual qualification form, and a certificate that names the 2027 edition.

Three ways to take it

Onsite at your facility
one price per class, travel included, any shiftQuote

Private live virtual
your people only, Teams or ZoomQuote

Monthly open class
individual seats, live on TeamsSeats

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Open class dates

Written quote within one business day. Seats in the open class are registered on our sister site, ArcFlashTraining.org.

Every attendee leaves with

2027 NFPA 70E Field Guide

Individual qualification form

Documented Competency Check

Certificate with QR verification, in 4 hours

Digital wallet card

Your instructors

Certified Safety Professionals (CSP)

35+ years in EHS. OSHA Authorized Outreach Trainers. The person who wrote the class teaches it.

9.6

Rating

500+

Trained, last 6 months

Among the teams we have trained in the last year

ExxonMobilAmazon Web ServicesInternational PaperSalt River ProjectErgon RefiningLithion BatteryFormulated SolutionsGallo WineryCity of GoodyearAjinomotoChevronPortland International JetportComfort Systems of Virginia

Questions about the 1-Day class

Is one day enough to qualify someone?

One day covers the classroom training a qualified person needs on the 2027 edition. Qualification itself is a determination the employer makes about a specific person on specific equipment, which training feeds but does not replace. Crews that write their own permits or work from their own arc flash study often get more from the 2-Day Intensive, where the second day is applied practice.

Does this count as the three-year retrain?

Yes. Most sites use the full class as the retrain when the edition has changed, because a refresher assumes the room already knows the fundamentals. If your crew had the full class within the last three years and nothing else has changed, the 4-Hour Refresher resets the record without a whole day off the floor.

What is the monthly open class?

The same 1-Day class, live on Microsoft Teams, held once a month, with individual seats for sites that only need to send one or two people. Dates and registration are on this page under next live classes; registration itself runs on our sister site, ArcFlashTraining.org.

Can the class be written around our site?

For onsite and private virtual classes, yes, and that is the point. Before class we learn your equipment, your crew's roles and your site rules, and where you have a study and labels we teach against them.

Tell us about your crew. Quote within one business day.