Skip to content
Every 30 minutes, an employee suffers a serious electrical injury. A single arc flash can cause life-altering burns, hearing loss, and even permanent eye damage. The NFPA 70E standard was developed to prevent exactly these kinds of incidents by helping companies establish safe work practices, train employees, and stay compliant with OSHA requirements.
At Bowtie Engineering, we provide NFPA 70E training online and onsite to help your team recognize hazards, reduce risk, and create a lasting culture of electrical safety. Our instructors are certified professionals with real field experience, not just classroom credentials. Each NFPA 70E course covers shock prevention, arc flash awareness, PPE selection, and justified energized work assessments, all delivered in an engaging, practical way.
This isn’t a textbook lecture. It’s hands-on, belief-based training that helps your team change not just their behavior, but how they think about safety.
Contact us today to schedule your training or request program details.
We know one size doesn’t fit all. That’s why Bowtie offers flexible, instructor-led electrical safety training classes designed for your team’s environment, schedule, and learning style.
Our 8-hour onsite program brings certified instructors directly to your facility. Each session covers OSHA CFR 1910, arc flash risk evaluation, lockout/tagout procedures, and hands-on operational risk assessments. With a flat rate for up to 25 students, this NFPA 70E certification option helps teams meet compliance efficiently while minimizing downtime.
For teams across multiple sites or remote locations, Bowtie offers NFPA 70E certification online using a proctor-led format. A designated safety manager or supervisor acts as the on-site proctor while we provide full instructor materials, demo units, and guidance.
Sessions can be completed in one 8-hour day or four 2-hour segments, giving teams the flexibility to train without interrupting production. Each participant completes a supervised exam and earns a verified NFPA 70E certification upon passing.
Both formats meet OSHA and NFPA 70E standards and provide the same depth of instruction and certification outcomes.
Our NFPA 70E electrical safety training classes are trusted by organizations that rely on consistent safety performance and compliance across complex electrical systems:
Prevent production interruptions and improve worker confidence in energized environments.
Protect technicians and infrastructure with reliable arc flash risk mitigation.
Ensure compliance, reduce incident rates, and maintain system reliability under OSHA 1910 standards.
Each training program is customized to your operations, ensuring it’s practical, relevant, and immediately applicable.
NFPA 70E applies to anyone exposed to an electrical hazard as part of their work, which is a wider group than most facilities assume. It covers qualified electrical workers, and it also covers maintenance technicians, operators who open panels and supervisors who authorize energized work.
A qualified person under NFPA 70E is someone who has demonstrated skills and knowledge related to the construction and operation of the equipment, and who has received safety training to identify and avoid the hazards involved. The important word is demonstrated. The employer decides who is qualified, and that decision has to be defensible task by task. Holding a certificate does not by itself make someone qualified for a specific task on a specific piece of equipment.
In practice, every maintenance worker at a facility should have current NFPA 70E classroom training on record. If you are not certain who at your site meets that standard, establishing it is the first useful step.
The onsite program runs a full eight hours and is built around your facility rather than a generic syllabus.
It covers arc flash hazard awareness, including what an arc flash is and why incident energy determines the PPE decision. It covers shock protection and the approach boundaries that govern who can work where. It covers PPE selection, which is where most facilities get into difficulty, and how to read an arc flash label correctly. It covers lockout tagout procedures and the steps a qualified worker needs to be fluent in. It covers OSHA CFR 1910 Subpart S and how it relates to NFPA 70E. And it covers justified energized work, meaning when energized work is permissible at all and what has to be documented before it starts.
Sessions include hands on exercises and operational risk assessments using your own equipment and your own scenarios rather than textbook examples. Every participant sits a written exam, and those who pass receive a completion certificate.
NFPA 70E requires electrical safety training to be refreshed at minimum every three years. That is the floor, not the target.
Retraining should happen sooner when any of the following changes: the tasks a worker performs, the equipment they work on, the applicable codes, or the facility’s electrical system itself. It should also happen when a worker’s performance suggests the training has not held.
Track training dates against individual workers rather than against sites. Staff move between locations, and a site level record hides the gaps.
When OSHA asks about electrical safety training, it does not ask whether training happened. It asks for evidence.
That means documentation showing who attended, on what date, what content was covered, who delivered it, and that each attendee demonstrated competence, which in practice means the exam result. It also means being able to show the training was instructor led, which is why the proctor based format matters for teams spread across sites.
Bowtie provides full documentation with every session. For clients on a service contract those records sit in BowVue alongside the arc flash data and maintenance history, so the qualified worker status of every team member is visible against the equipment they work on rather than filed separately.
Onsite sessions are capped at 25 participants. The limit is deliberate. Smaller groups let the instructor work with your facility’s actual hazards, run meaningful hands on exercises and make sure every participant is prepared for the exam.
The proctor based format can be delivered as one full eight hour day or as four two hour segments, which lets teams train without stopping production. For multi site operators, sessions can be scheduled so training records stay aligned across locations rather than drifting apart site by site.
Build an electrical safety training program around your facility, your equipment and the work your team performs. Bowtie delivers instructor-led NFPA 70E training with practical exercises and documented completion.
NFPA 70E certification is valid for three years. After that, refresher training is required to stay compliant with OSHA and NFPA standards. Bowtie offers convenient NFPA 70E training online renewal options to help you stay current. Contact us to schedule your next certification.
Our NFPA 70E course covers arc flash awareness, shock protection boundaries, PPE selection, lockout/tagout, and hazard risk evaluation. We also teach energized work justification and documentation best practices. Reach out to our team for a complete course outline.
Our NFPA 70E certification online is proctor-based, meaning your supervisor or safety manager leads the session on-site using Bowtie’s instructor materials. Training can be done in one day or four shorter sessions. Get in touch to learn how to get started.
Absolutely. All of our electrical safety training classes follow OSHA 1910 Subpart S and the most current NFPA 70E standards. Our instructors are qualified professionals with years of experience in the field. Reach out to confirm compliance for your next audit.
