NFPA 70E Resources
Everything here is free, editable, and built from what actually gets used in the field — not from what looks impressive in a table of contents.
01A note on using any of this
Every template below is a starting point, not a finished document. A permit form that has not been adapted to your equipment, your voltage classes, and your approval chain is a form someone will fill out without thinking — which is the opposite of what a permit is for.
Adapt them. Put your company name on them, change what needs changing, delete what does not apply, and have someone who knows your facility review them before they go into service. That is not a disclaimer; it is the actual instruction.
02Templates & forms
Editable Word and Excel files, plus a printable pocket card. No email required for any of these — click and they download.
Energized Electrical Work Permit
Seven parts: job identification, justification, shock risk assessment, arc flash risk assessment, job safety plan, additional person, and approvals. Includes the written statement that schedule and cost are not infeasibility.
Download .docx → PDFEnergized Work Permit — print version
The same permit as a two-page PDF, for sites that want a fixed form rather than an editable one.
Download .pdf → PDFJob Safety Plan & Pre-Job Briefing Card
A two-sided pocket card for the two-minute conversation that catches the backfed panel and the mislabeled disconnect. Print on cardstock, cut, and laminate.
Download .pdf → WORDHost / Contractor Information Exchange
Six sections documenting the two-way exchange required before contract electrical work begins — twelve items the host must inform, nine the contractor must, and a log for hazards discovered during the work.
Download .docx → EXCELQualification Matrix & ESP Audit Checklist
Two working sheets. The matrix tracks qualification by person, task, and equipment with automatic expiration flags. The checklist is 50 scored audit items across eight sections with a live score summary.
Download .xlsx →03Toolbox talk library
Thirteen one-page talks, each built on a real NIOSH FACE fatality investigation with the report number printed on the page. Ten minutes, three discussion questions, and a sign-in grid. No email required.
Browse all 13 toolbox talks
Test before touch · the circuit that wasn't on the drawing · reaching across the live bus · wrong meter, wrong voltage · aerial lift into the lines · the aluminum ladder and the gust of wind · and more.
Open the library → PDFComplete library — one file
All thirteen talks as a single 13-page PDF. Print it once, keep it in the gang box, and work through one a week for a quarter.
Download .pdf →04Interactive tools
All five run in your browser. Nothing you type into any of them is transmitted or stored.
The NFPA 70E Decision Tree
Walk a real task through all 32 gates — normal operating condition, the de-energize decision, justification, the eight steps to a safe work condition, both risk assessments, and re-energizing.
Scored self-auditESP Gap Assessment
29 questions scoring your program against Article 110, weighted by consequence, with your gaps named and ranked in the order I would fix them.
Program designElectrical Safety Program Builder
Six questions about your facility produce a tailored program outline — the sections you need, in order, with why each one is there.
GeneratorEnergized Work Permit Generator
Fill it in, generate it, print it or save it as a PDF. Includes a guard that tells you when the honest answer is to de-energize instead.
Table methodPPE Category Selector
Equipment and task in, category out — plus the four conditions that must be true before the table's answer means anything.
ReferenceOSHA – NFPA 70E Crosswalk
22 OSHA citations mapped to the 70E articles that satisfy them, searchable and filterable, with what each one means in practice.
Quick referenceArc Flash & Approach Boundaries
The three boundaries in plain language, with a shock protection distance lookup and where the arc flash boundary actually comes from.
05Get the whole pack in one email
If you would rather not click five downloads — or you want them somewhere you can forward to a colleague — I will send the complete pack in a single email.
The complete NFPA 70E template pack
Everything above, in one email, plus a short note on the two things I would fix first in almost any electrical safety program.
- Energized electrical work permit (Word and PDF)
- Job safety plan & pre-job briefing pocket card (PDF)
- Host / contractor information exchange form (Word)
- Qualification matrix with automatic expiration flags (Excel)
- 50-item electrical safety program audit checklist (Excel)
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