High Voltage Switching Operations – Refresher
Course Overview
This refresher course provides participants with up-to-date information on legislation and a review of important safety and procedural details relating to high voltage switching operations.
Attending regular refresher training helps to meet industry best practice standards, and in WA, this will also ensure compliance with the Guidelines for the safe management of high voltage installations.
Duration
2 days
Location
Students have the option to choose between Blended Training (Partly delivered online) or Complete Face-to-Face Training delivered at one of Competency Training’s national training centres, or at a client’s facility.
Price
$1,100 GST Excluded
Funding available for Construction workers in WA. Learn more. 
Dates
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This refresher course provides a review of the following topics:
- Legislation and standards
- Electrical hazards, risk management and safety procedures
- Writing and checking switching programs
- Permit procedures
This course involves practical switching activities to a switching program, which includes:
- Remote switching operations using our customised interactive network diagrams
- Manual switching activities in our high voltage switching training facilities
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UNITS OF COMPETENCY
Participants are only eligible to be awarded a Statement of Attainment for units of competency which they have previously attained.
UEPOPS349
Operate local H.V. switchgear
UEPOPS357
Operate local L.V. switchgear
UEPOPS428
Develop H.V. switching programs
UEPOPS430
Control permit to work operations
UEPOPS456
Perform switching to a switching program
UEPOPS525
Coordinate and direct switching program
UETTDREL16
Working safely near live electrical apparatus
UETTDRRF09
Apply access procedures to work on or near electrical network infrastructure
UETTDRIS44
Perform HV field switching operation to a given schedule
UETTDRSB39
Perform power system substation switching operation to a given schedule
UETTDRIS48
Develop high voltage switching schedule
UETTDRIS50
Coordinate power system permit procedures
UETTDRIS51
Coordinate and direct power system switching schedules
UETTDRIS67
Solve problems in energy supply network equipment
- Evidence of prior attainment of units of this course.
- Relevant electrical trade qualification, if applicable.
Participants who meet prerequisites for the course will be awarded a Statement of Attainment for all nationally recognised units of competency which they have previously attained.
Students who do not meet these prerequisites will be issued a Statement of Completion for the course.
Contact us for more information or to discuss your eligibility to enrol in the course.
Who should attend?
This High Voltage Switching Operations – Refresher course is This course is intended as a periodic refresher for electrical workers who have previously completed equivalent training.
Evidence of prior training is required to be awarded a Statement of Attainment for nationally recognised units of competency.
REFRESHER TRAINING
In accordance with industry Best Practice, Competency Training recommends that this high voltage training course be refreshed every 2-3 years.
In WA, this will also ensure compliance with the Guidelines for the safe management of high voltage installations, which states:
HV switching operators are required to be assessed as being competent, and maintain currency, in units of switching contained in Industry Training Packages delivered by a Registered Training Organisation (RTO) approved to deliver Nationally Recognised Training within the Australian Qualifications Framework.