Title:Mobile and Portable Buildings Association (MPBA) Pre-delivery
Inspection and Testing Training –
1 day re-assessment / standardisation
Duration:1 day
Aims:To re-affirm, standardise, and / or provide the underpinning knowledge and practical skills to enable MPBA member company employees to undertake the pre-delivery inspection and testing of a portable building (Cabin only) electrical installation prior to delivery to a site.
Objectives:Given the underpinning knowledge, practical competencies, tools, test equipment and documentation at the end of the course delegates will be able to:
- Visually inspect a cabin electrical installation for common visual defects
- Carry out safe isolation of a cabin supply.
- Carry out minor repair and replacement of cabin electrical installation components, e.g. trunking, cables, socket outlets, switches, isolators, consumer units, RCD’s, space heaters, luminaries, lamps, and water heaters.
- Carry out appropriate electrical tests, e.g. continuity of protective conductors, final circuit continuity test, insulation resistance, polarity, and rcd operation.
- Complete and sign off the inspection report form.
Content:
NOTE: For the 1 day “refresher” training the following will be an overview of the following content with opportunity to ask questions further to the candidate’s initial training and / or other training provided by third parties.
1. Health and Safety and other related legislation and codes of practice
-HASWA
-Management of H & S at Work Regulations
-Electricity at Work Regulations
-BS7671
-On-Site guide
-Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations
- Safe systems of work, safe access & egress, permit to work
- Emergency procedures, actions in the event of an accident,
fire or power failure.
- Limitations of non-electricians
2. Electrical Theory
-Electrical supply system in the UK
- Electricity, what it is.
-Terminology, current, volts, amps, watts, power, volt-drop, impedance, etc.
-Ohms law
-Hazards of electricity
-Electric shock, the risks, effects, burns & fire.
-Precautions, First aid action
-Protection against electric shock
-Overload protection
-Earthing and bonding
3. Electrical Components, (those that make up an installation in a cabin)
-Cables, types inc. SWA, cross sectional area, current carrying capacity, cable insulation materials, cable colours, Safety notices and labels, I P rating.
-Isolators, fuses, circuit breakers, RCD’s, RCBO’s,
-Trunking, cable fixings, Connections, terminations and BS 4343 connectors
-Consumer units,
-Wiring systems, ring circuits, radial circuits.
-Switches, fused switches, isolators.
-Luminaries and lamps,
-Erection methods, fixings and component mountings
-Wall mounted heaters,
-Water heaters,
-Special applications e.g. shower units with electric showers, ventilator fans and macerators.
-Self powered units/Generators
4. Installation methods.
- Tools and equipment
-Cable pulling and replacement
-Component mountings and fixings
5. Electrical tests and visual inspections.
-Why test and inspect?
-Visual inspection, what to look for
-Electrical tests
-Dead tests, live tests.
-Safe isolation, proving dead
-Test instruments
-Electrical tests, types and how to do them
-Continuity, final circuit continuity, Polarity, Insulation resistance,
RCD testing,
-Test results and interpretation
-Certification and paperwork
-Forms and how to complete them
6. Practical Exercises
-Demonstration, practice and supervised practice of the following:
-Safe isolation
-Removal and replacement of cables
-Fitting BS4343 plug to cable
-Renewing cables and components
-Electrical tests.
7. Course assessment.
60 question multiple choice open book assessment.
- Practical assessment of safe isolation
- Practical assessment of completion of inspection & test of a “test” cabin
- Completion of electrical condition report.
8. Certification.
-On completion successful delegates will be issued a joint ECS/JIB Card valid for 3 years.
9. Refresher training:
-Delegates will be re-assessed every 3 years via a 1 day course & assessment
Note: Test Equipment will need to be provided to operatives at each depot:
Voltage indicator and proving unit
Insulation & continuity tester
Test socket adaptor
RCD tester - optional
Loop tester – optional
Cost MPBA Members only
1 day Refresher/Assessment
£240.00 per delegate + Vat to include JIB Card
based on a minimum number of 8 delegates per course
Updated 29thAugust 2014