Practical training that helps your people recognise the risks of working near the electricity network and make safer decisions before the job begins.

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Making the risk visible on a familiar worksite

Overhead powerlines are easy to overlook when they have been part of the landscape for years. On a busy site with tipper trucks, excavators, cranes and elevated work platforms moving around them, that familiarity can lead to decisions that put people in serious danger.

This course gives participants a clear understanding of how contact with the network happens, what the consequences can be and which controls make the difference. The content is drawn from electricity network experience and real incident learnings, so it connects directly to the work your people do every day.

What Participants Take Back to the Worksite

How electricity behaves around overhead conductors and why contact can occur without touching a line

Identifying overhead electrical infrastructure and the hazards it presents on site

Approach distances, exclusion zones and the role of a safety observer

Planning work near powerlines, including assessing the site before plant arrives

Effective controls for vehicles, machinery and loads working near the network

What to do if plant contacts a powerline, and how to keep others safe during an incident

Lessons from real incidents and what they reveal about everyday decisions

Training is facilitated on behalf of Allens Training RTO #90909

WHO IT’S FOR

Built for people who work around the network

The course suits anyone whose work brings them near overhead electrical infrastructure, including plant and machinery operators, civil construction and earthmoving crews, council outdoor workforces, transport and heavy vehicle operators, tree and vegetation workers, and farming and rural contractors. Supervisors and safety staff also benefit from understanding how the risk should be planned for and managed.

HOW IT’S DELIVERED

Training arranged around your people and your site

Sessions are delivered on site or at a venue that suits your team, and can be scheduled around rosters, pre-starts or dedicated training days. Examples and discussion are shaped around your industry, equipment and the conditions your crews actually work in, so the learning carries straight over to the job.

There are no fixed public dates. Each engagement is arranged directly with your organisation based on group size, location and training requirements.

“The team found the session both informative and engaging, and the feedback has been very positive. They took away several valuable learnings that will continue to support our commitment to maintaining a strong safety culture.”

- Alison Hilton, Gore Earthmoving

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Working Around Overhead Powerlines