WATERTOWN, SD -- NATE: The Communications Infrastructure Contractors Association has officially opened registration for the first nine Electrical Safety Awareness for Telecom Workers Training sessions that will be facilitated by the Association in 2023.


Overall, twelve Electrical Safety Awareness for Telecom Workers Courses that will be hosted nationwide in 2023 to industry employees and employers due to a Susan Harwood Training Grant (SH-39154-SH2) from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor.

The new curriculum is tailored specifically to the communications infrastructure industry and includes detailed instruction on electrical safety awareness that telecom workers need to know such as overhead transmission and distribution, equipment, basic electrical theory, lock-out/tag-out procedures and standards, installation of electrical telecom equipment, underground power, grounding and bonding, induced current, PPE, batteries and necessary safety, tower lighting and capacitors, and job hazard analysis documentation specific to telecom electrical awareness.

The Electrical Safety Awareness for Telecom Workers Training will be held Friday, June 16, 2023, at the Hampton Inn & Suites Gulfport I-10 located at 15580 Daniel Boulevard in Gulfport, Mississippi 39503.