Manager Environmental Operations (Retired) Norfolk Southern Railway Hixson, Tennessee, United States
The program will follow the recommendations as set by the NFPA 472 standards and discuss the misunderstanding of what ground resistance is and why do we do it first. Then by demonstration the instructor will show how we set up a grounding field for the damaged container, grounding field for the recovery container and appliances and how to bond then together. This is an interactive program that will ask the student to discuss the subject.
Learning Objectives:
The participant, upon completion of the session, shall understand, based on regulatory and consensus standards, why grounding and bonding is completed response operations including the concepts of ground resistance.
The participant, upon completion of the session, shall understand, when grounding and bonding operations shall be completed at an emergency operation and the conditions that can or will be present.
The participant, upon completion of the session, shall understand, how to set up a grounding and bonding field to include equipment and key contact points.
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