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Training, Education & Safety
Line Worker Apprenticeship Program
In conjunction with the Tennessee Valley Public Power Association, Georgia EMC conducts a comprehensive Line Worker Apprenticeship Training Program for EMC line employees who are working to become senior "journeyman linemen." This comprehensive program consists of four correspondence units and three on-site laboratory sessions. It usually takes two to three years to complete the apprenticeship program.
See Calendar for dates and to register online, or contact Greg
McKoy.
Laboratory Sessions
Each lab is a five-day session conducted at the Electric Cooperative Training Center in Smarr, Ga.
- (+) Lab A: Climbing Fundamentals
- How to fit, inspect, and care for climbing tools
- Pole inspections
- Hitch-hiking techniques
- Free climbing
- Use of a brace and bit
- Use of handline and blocks
- Basic knot tying
- Climbing with a partner
- Techniques for hanging crossarms
- Use of pole-gin to hang transformer
- How to armor rod and tie in conductors
- Climbing over and around obstacles
- Pole-top rescue with and without arm
- Determine primary and secondary voltages
- Recognition of minimum approach distance
- Demonstrate proper fitting of climbing tools.
- Demonstrate proper donning of climbing equipment.
- Demonstrate proper adjusting of safety strap.
- Demonstrate proper pre-climbing inspection of climbing tools.
- Demonstrate proper sharpening of climbing gaffs using a 10" mill cut file.
- Demonstrate proper free climbing techniques.
- Demonstrate proper belted climbing techniques.
- Demonstrate proper changing positions on the pole.
- Demonstrate proper circling of pole.
- Demonstrate proper pre-climbing pole inspection.
- Demonstrate proper care and storage of climbing tools.
- Demonstrate proper climbing with climbing partner.
- Demonstrate proper tying of the following knots:
Square knot Clove-hitch Timber-hitch Single Bowline Bowline on Bight Running Bowline Taunt Hitch Grapevine Hitch Half-hitch Sheet Bend Rain Suit - Demonstrate how to install an eye splice in a rope.
- Demonstrate proper techniques for installing an armor rod on a conductor.
- Demonstrate proper conductor tying-in (both preform and conventional copper and aluminum ties).
- Demonstrate proper installation of a single crossarm.
- Demonstrate safe climbing techniques for climbing around a crossarm.
- Demonstrate installation of a temporary guy using a rope sling and handline.
- Demonstrate installing a crossarm in the buck position.
- Demonstrate installation of a double crossarm.
- Demonstrate proper techniques of climbing over a set of double crossarms.
- Demonstrate pole top rescue using the handline method.
- Demonstrate locating what is energized and what is not energized at different overhead line locations.
- Demonstrate locating the primary voltages and the secondary voltages on a pole.
- (+) Lab B: Construction Fundamentals
- How to take a job from beginning to end
- Draw and build six spans of three-phase line
- Perform grounding procedures
- Perform methods for sagging wire
- Underground cable preparation
- Underground system design
- All work conducted from pole
- Demonstrate proper use for personal protective equipment for installing and removing overhead lines.
- Demonstrate proper job briefing.
- Demonstrate proper pre-use tool inspection for both personal and line tools.
- Demonstrate knowledge of minimum approach distances.
- Demonstrate proper installation of pole guys.
- Demonstrate knowledge of common voltages.
- Demonstrate the use, make-up, and storage of a handline.
- Demonstrate the proper use of rope slings.
- Demonstrate installation of a line, using a print or drawing.
- Demonstrate proper framing of poles, following specifications.
- Demonstrate using the correct wire grip for the job or application.
- Demonstrate proper sagging of wire, using the target, timing, dynamometer, and transit method.
- Demonstrate checking for nominal voltage prior to applying grounds.
- Demonstrate proper sequence for applying grounds.
- Demonstrate proper application of grounds for the protection of employees.
- Demonstrate proper procedures for applying single-point grounding.
- Demonstrate knowledge of safely removing overhead distribution lines.
- Demonstrate proper installation of cutout and surge arrester.
- Demonstrate proper procedures for changing out a transformer using rope blocks and a transformer gin.
- Demonstrate knowledge of underground cable design.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the fundamentals of underground distribution.
- Demonstrate knowledge of radial, loop, and dual underground feeders.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the difference between live-front and dead-front equipment.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the personal protective equipment needed for working on an underground.
- Demonstrate proper procedures for grounding of cable equipment.
- Demonstrate proper procedures for cutting of table.
- Demonstrate proper cable preparation for a cable splice.
- Demonstrate proper procedures for making a clean splice.
- Demonstrate the completion of cable splice, conforming to the manufacturer's directions.
- Demonstrate proper cable preparation for an elbow termination.
- Demonstrate proper installation of an elbow termination.
- Demonstrate proper preparation for a porcelain and rubber termination.
- Demonstrate proper installation of a porcelain or rubber termination.
- (+) Lab C: Operations Fundamentals
- Knowledge and the purpose of a sub-station
- Transformer banking
- Switching of underground and overhead lines
- Simulated hot work
- Basic operation of a voltage regulator
- Basic knowledge of line coordination
- Discuss and use phasing tools
- Demonstrate knowledge of the purpose of a substation.
- Identify the major equipment in a substation.
- Demonstrate a general knowledge of substation requirements.
- Demonstrate how to properly isolate an underground distribution transformer.
- Demonstrate how to properly isolate a cable in a loop system.
- Demonstrate how to properly isolate a riser pole in an underground system.
- Demonstrate knowledge about radial, loop, and dual feeders.
- Demonstrate how to properly ground an underground cable or equipment.
- Differentiate between live-front and dead-front transformers.
- Demonstrate proper use of personal protective equipment and tool inspection process.
- Demonstrate three-phase wye-delta, three-wire transformer connection.
- Demonstrate three-phase wye-delta, four-wire transformer connection.
- Demonstrate three-phase delta-delta, three-wire transformer connection.
- Demonstrate three-phase delta-delta, four-wire transformer connection.
- Demonstrate three-phase open wye-open delta, three-wire transformer connection.
- Demonstrate three-phase open wye-open delta, four-wire transformer connection.
- Demonstrate three-phase open delta-open delta, three-wire transformer connection.
- Demonstrate three-phase open delta-open delta, four-wire transformer connection.
- Demonstrate three-phase wye-wye, four-wire connections.
- Demonstrate pre-trip inspection and critical component inspection of a bucket truck.
- Demonstrate an effective job briefing for jobs.
- Demonstrate proper tool inspections at job sites.
- Demonstrate proper grounding of bucket truck.
- Demonstrate proper protection from contact with bucket by groundman.
- Demonstrate proper use of handline while working from a bucket.
- Demonstrate proper cover-up for energized line work.
- Demonstrate framing out a dead-end pole in vicinity of energized lines.
- Demonstrate transfer of energized dead-ends from one dead-end pole to another.
- Demonstrate proper removing of dead-end pole in vicinity of energized lines.
- Demonstrate use of proper PPE for transfer of three-phase dead-end.
- Demonstrate safe transfer of lines from crossarm on pole to new pole.
- Demonstrate proper testing of three-phase overhead line.
- Demonstrate proper pre-climbing checks of poles and personal equipment.
- Demonstrate proper untying and tying in three-phase conductors.
- Demonstrate proper procedures for returning the job back to service.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the minimum approach distances for different voltages.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the purpose of and the basic operation of a voltage regulator.
- Demonstrate the proper electrical connections for a voltage regulator.
- Demonstrate the knowledge of the safety when working on a voltage regulator.
- Demonstrate proper bucket truck rescue procedures.
- Demonstrate knowledge of "line coordination."
- Demonstrate knowledge of the equipment used in "line coordination."
- Demonstrate knowledge of equipment that is used for over-voltage protection.
- Demonstrate knowledge of basic troubleshooting steps.
- Demonstrate knowledge of steps to isolate a system problem.
- Demonstrate correct procedures for splicing an energized overhead conductor.
- (+) Unit I: Basic Math and Electricity
- Electricity: A Necessity of Modern Life
- Generation and Transmission of Electricity
- The Distribution System
- Basic Electricity
- Mathematics Review
- Trigonometry and Vectors
- Simple Ways of Making Electricity
- More Mathematics
- Measuring Electricity
- Electric Current
- (+) Unit II: Fundamentals of Alternating Current
- Alternating Current and Circuits Containing Resistance
- Inductance in Alternating Current Circuits and Resistance and Impedance in Series Circuits
- Capacitors are Not Only Fun, They're Important Too!
- Series Circuits: Resistance, Inductive Reactance, and Capacitive Reactance
- AC Parallel Circuits and Series-Parallel Circuits
- Three Phase Systems
- AC Instruments and Meters
- Alternating Current Generators
- Transformers
- Transformer Connections and Special Applications
- (+) Unit III: Basic Skills and Knowledge for the Line Worker Apprentice
- Working Safely
- Basic Tools and Equipment for Line Work
- Ropes, Knots, Splices, and Gear
- Distribution and Transmission Poles
- Line Conductors and Connections
- Stringing and Sagging Operations
- Line Work Communications
- Insulators
- Underground Distribution System
- Maintenance of Transmission and Distribution Line
- (+) Unit IV: Advanced Skills and Knowledge for the Line Worker Apprentice
- Transformer Connections and Refusing
- Meters and Their Applications
- Substations and Substation Operation
- Insulators
- Protective Grounding
- Right of Way Clearing
- Work Procedures - Transformers, Regulators, Reclosers and Sectionalizers
- The Use of Hot Line Tools
- Phasing and Measuring Voltage and Current
- System Operations
Upon completion of this lab, the trainee will have competent knowledge of and will be able to perform the following:
Students must bring the following equipment:
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Hard hat |
Gloves |
Upon completion of this lab, the trainee will have competent knowledge of and will be able to perform the following:
Students are required to bring the following equipment:
|
Hard hat |
Gloves |
Upon completion of this lab, the trainee will have competent knowledge of and will be able to perform the following:
Students must bring the following equipment:
|
Hard hat |
Gloves |
Correspondence Units
The allotted completion time is six months each for Units I and II and a full year each for Units III and IV.
See Georgia EMC calendar for dates.
