Migna Safety Solutions

General Industry · Self-Paced · about 45 min total

Electric Power Generation, Transmission & Distribution (1910.269)

Intermediate · Course MIG-GI-213

The utility standard — qualified employees and proficiency, job briefings, de-energizing and grounding, the equipotential zone, enclosed spaces, minimum approach distances, and the arc-rated clothing rule that turns on an incident heat energy estimate.

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This is a Migna Safety Solutions course with a Migna certificate of completion. It is not OSHA Outreach Training and does not include a Department of Labor card.

1910.269 governs the operation and maintenance of electric power generation, control, transformation, transmission and distribution installations. Its construction counterpart is 29 CFR 1926 Subpart V. Together they cover line work, substations, generating stations and line-clearance tree trimming — some of the highest-consequence work in American industry, where the two things that kill people are contact with an energised conductor and the thermal energy of an arc. This course covers what the standard reaches and how it relates to Subpart S and NFPA 70E; who counts as a qualified employee and what the annual determination of proficiency actually requires; the host and contract employer information exchange; the job briefing and when a second one is owed; de-energizing lines and equipment for employee protection; protective grounding and the equipotential zone, which is the concept most often taught wrongly; enclosed spaces and why they are not ordinary permit-required confined spaces; minimum approach distances; the arc flash assessment and the 2.0 cal/cm² threshold; the clothing that must never be worn; and first aid, pole-top and manhole rescue. It deliberately prints no minimum approach distance tables and no incident energy values. Those come from your employer's own assessment and the system you work on. Issues a Migna certificate of completion.

What you are buying

30 min
Enforced seat time
3
Modules
9
Lessons
3
Interactive exercises
30
Quiz questions

Seat time is enforced on our servers. The clock is calculated from signed progress events rather than in your browser, so it cannot be sped up — a certificate that states 30 minutes of training means it. The 45 minutes shown above is that gate plus the quizzes and final exam, which are not on the clock.

This certificate does not expire on a clock

The standard behind this course sets no fixed retraining interval, so we do not print one. Retraining is triggered by events instead — a new hazard, a changed process, or an observed deficiency. Your employer or insurer may set their own interval, which is a real obligation but not a federal one.

Written against 20 published standards

Every citation below appears in the course content and is checked against the current text of the rule before publication.

  • 1910 Subpart S
  • 1910.137
  • 1910.146
  • 1910.147
  • 1910.269
  • 1910.269(b)
  • 1910.269(c)
  • 1910.269(e)
  • 1910.269(l)
  • 1910.269(m)
  • 1910.269(n)
  • 1910.269(p)
  • 1910.269(q)
  • 1910.269(r)
  • 1910.269(t)
  • 1926 Subpart K
  • 1926 Subpart V
  • 29 CFR 1910.269
  • NFPA 70E
  • Subpart S

What You Will Be Able To Do

The course is built to reach these, and the quizzes are written to confirm them.

  • State the scope of 29 CFR 1910.269 and distinguish a qualified from an unqualified employee
  • Describe what a job briefing must cover and when it must be repeated
  • Describe the de-energizing and grounding sequence that protects an employee working on a line
  • Apply the minimum approach distances and state what changes them
  • Select arc-rated clothing against an incident energy estimate, and describe the required emergency response capability

What's Covered

  1. Module 1: Scope, Qualification, and the Job Briefing

    • Who Is Covered, Who Is Qualified, and What Gets Said Before the Job

  2. Module 2: De-energizing, Grounding, and Approach

    • Clearances, the Equipotential Zone, and Enclosed Spaces

  3. Module 3: Arc Flash, Clothing, and Emergency Response

    • The Heat Energy Estimate, What Not to Wear, and Rescue