Course description
Unit 1: Regulation, Safe Practice and Effective Working
- Introduction
- Legal responsibilities and regulations
- Intrinsic safety
- Accidents at work
- Electrical safety and isolation
- Types of technical information and documentation
- Overview of roles and responsibilities
Unit 2: Basic Electrical Principles
- Atomic structure
- Electricity
- Current
- Units of measurement in more detail
- Ohms Law
- Power
- Resistance
- Capacitance and capacitors
- Circuits
- Cables
- Safe electrical installations and protection
Unit 3: Electrical Systems Documentation, Records and Certificates
- Working safely
- Risk assessment
- Technical information: types and uses
- Removal of waste
Unit 4: Basic Transmission and Distribution Systems
- Power generation
- Transformers
- Substations
- Alternators
- Balancing loads
- Resistance
- Overcurrent
Unit 5: Basic Electrical Technologies 1
- Building regulations
- Power systems
- Types of plugs and sockets
- Telecommunications (voice and data systems)
- Structured cabling
Unit 6: Basic Electrical Technologies 2: Installation and Wiring
- Supply systems
- Lighting and power circuits
- Junction boxes
- Domestic contexts
- Sizing cable
- Enclosures
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