Trainee Basic Electrical Classroom Education Information
HB 2546 passed both the House and Senate and raises the requirements for trainees’ classroom training to 48 hour per renewal period. This requirement is to be phased in. To renew on or after July 1, 2011, trainees must have 32 hours of classroom training. To renew on or after July 1, 2013, they must have 48 hours. This bill will improve the trainees’ educational process and knowledge – they will be better electricians.A new education requirement affecting electrical trainees became effective July 1, 2007. A change in the electrical law requires trainees to receive eight hours of basic electrical classroom education per year before renewing their training certificate.
Currently, trainees renewing their training certificate must have completed a total of sixteen hours of basic electrical classroom education during the previous two years. Trainees who attempt to renew without the required training will be placed into inactive status and cannot work until the training is completed and the training certificate is reactivated.
Classroom education classes must cover the RCW 19.28, WAC 296-46B, the currently adopted National Electrical Code, or electrical theory. Electrical theory must be based on currently published materials that are readily available through retail purchase. All classes are required to be at least eight hours in length. Classes may be divided into intervals of not less than two hours each, so long as the class is completed within a one month period. Based on input from the Electrical Board, the required exam must have at least 5 questions for each two hours of credit.
Created on 08/30/2007 12:33 AM by frank
Updated on 05/09/2010 07:37 PM by hughesl
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