Electrician & QEW safety training requirements
Also called: Commercial electrician, cell site electrician, journeyman, qualified electrical worker
Your license says you can do the work. OSHA separately wants proof you were trained to do it safely — and most employers now ask for NFPA 70E by name.
Required by regulation
Training the rules spell out. The citation is next to each one — look it up, it’s all public.
Qualified-person training
OSHA 1910.332, 1910.269(a)(2)Approach distances, how to tell live parts from dead, the skills that make you “qualified” in OSHA’s sense.
Lockout / tagout
OSHA 1910.147(c)(7), 1910.333Every authorized employee has to be trained, and retrained when the procedures change.
Ground-fault protection
OSHA 1926.404(b)GFCIs or an assured grounding program on every construction site.
Commonly required by employers
Not always in the regulation, but contractors, carriers and GCs ask for it before you get on site.
NFPA 70E arc flash
NFPA 70E (2027)Not law on its own, but it’s how OSHA and insurers judge electrical safety programs — so most employers require it. Refresher every three years.
Medium voltage (1–35 kV)
OSHA 1910.269, employer programsFor switchgear, distribution and utility-side work above 600 V.
First aid & CPR
OSHA 1910.269(b), contractor rulesRequired on power generation and T&D jobs; most electrical contractors ask for it everywhere.
What an online course won’t give you
You’ll need these too. We don’t sell them, and we’d rather you hear it here.
Electrician license
Journeyman and master licenses come from your state or city board. No safety course replaces one.