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Medical Locations Appreciation Course BS7671

Medical Locations Appreciation Course

1 DAY

Introduction

Medical Location Electrical Installations play a key role within modern Medical care. A loss of power, lack of Maintenance, or misunderstanding of Medical location power requirements could be critical to patients and staff within such a location.

CTTC(UK) have developed this course to allow key personnel who are responsible for the safe operation and maintenance requirements of Electrical Equipment within Medical locations. The course aims to provide an overview of the basic requirements of Medical Location Electrical requirements (both Maintenance and Installation) and also looks to demonstrate Legislative and Best practice applications. This course can also lead to more advanced and specialised Medical Location Electrical Training.

 

Who should attend?

If you are a practising Electricians and Electrical Technicians working within medical locations. The course will also be useful for Supervisors, maintenance managers, Responsible persons and anyone who has a defined scope of work within an Electrical Medical environment.

 

Objectives

The course aims to provide information on the following subject areas;

  • Introduction to Medical Locations
  • Introduction to HTM 06-01 and HTM 06-02 + the relationship with BS 7671
  • Introduction to Governance and Risk Management
  • Understanding the risk from loss of supply
  • Introduction to Initial design consideration
  • Power quality
  • Introduction to Distribution Strategy for resilience
  • Maximum interruption times to primary supply
  • Secondary power centres and plants
  • Protection and switchgear
  • Electromagnetic compatibility
  • Earthing
  • Introduction to Maintenance requirements
  • Appointments, roles and duties of personnel

Training environment

The training will take place in a Lecture room environment with open and direct questions and case studies. Learning will be assessed by open questions and a short end of course theoretical assessment is also used to assess information received by the delegates.

Benefits

At the end of the course, you will able to;

  • Evaluate section 710 (Medical locations) within BS 7671.
  • Discuss recent changes to BS 7671 and analyse how this will affect Medical locations
  • Appreciate the relationship between HTM 06-01, HTM 06-02 and BS 7671.
  • Evaluate Risk Management
  • Analyse basic power distribution systems within medical locations
  • Elaborate on basic requirements of Medical Location Earthing systems
  • Discuss basic maintenance requirements of medical locations
  • Evaluate basic roles and appointments of Electrical personnel