Your company needs a written Electrical Safety Program. We build it for you.
NFPA 70E requires employers to implement and document an electrical safety program — and it's the first document OSHA asks for after an incident. We develop complete, site-specific ESPs built on the 2027 edition, tailored to your industry, your equipment, and your actual staffing.
Dan Mercer, CSP — 35+ years EHS experience, trainer to Fortune 500 industrial and tech clients. Every program is developed and technically reviewed personally — not generated from a template mill.
01Why this service exists
After more than 50 classes a year, a pattern is impossible to miss: most companies sending people to NFPA 70E training don't have the written program the training is supposed to plug into. They have LOTO procedures, some PPE, maybe an arc flash study from a previous decade — but no Electrical Safety Program document that ties qualification, risk assessment, permits, PPE selection, auditing, and contractor coordination into one system with someone's name on it.
That gap matters three ways:
- It's a compliance requirement, not a nice-to-have. NFPA 70E directs employers to implement and document an ESP as part of an overall occupational health and safety management system — and OSHA's first document request after an electrical incident is exactly this program. "We send people to training" is not a program.
- Training without a program doesn't stick. A student leaves my class knowing what an energized work permit is. If their employer has no permit form, no approval chain, and no policy, that knowledge dies in the parking lot.
- Small and mid-size employers are structurally underserved. Fortune 500 sites have corporate EHS departments to write this. The 40-person machine shop, the regional food plant, the rural water district, and the five-truck electrical contractor do not — and they carry the same legal duty.
02What you get
A complete, ready-to-adopt Electrical Safety Program — written for your company, not downloaded from a template library. Every engagement includes:
- Site and industry tailoring — built around your equipment classes, voltage levels, staffing model, shift structure, and the industry-specific issues covered in our industry guides (washdown environments, uptime culture, remote lone workers, host/contractor relationships, and so on)
- Full NFPA 70E 2027 alignment — including the additional-person requirement, job safety planning, contact thermal hand protection, PPE conformity assessment documentation, and host/contract employer coordination
- Working documents, not just policy prose — energized work permit form, job safety planning/pre-job brief form, qualification matrix and training plan, PPE selection tables keyed to your equipment, LOTO/ESWC integration, contractor information-exchange form, and an annual audit checklist
- State-specific layers where they matter — licensing interfaces, public-sector coverage gaps, and enforcement context (see the Texas guide for the kind of detail we build in)
- A rollout path — implementation sequence, training requirements mapped to the program, and first-year audit milestones
03Sample excerpts
These excerpts are drawn from the program framework we tailor per client — shown here so you can judge the depth before you call. Your program will differ where your facts differ.
4.2.1 No employee shall be assigned electrical work within the Limited Approach Boundary or the Arc Flash Boundary unless designated as a Qualified Person for that task class on the Qualification Matrix (Appendix B).
4.2.2 Designation requires all of the following, documented: (a) completion of NFPA 70E-based classroom training current within three years; (b) task-specific demonstration of skills — including voltage verification, boundary determination, and PPE selection — witnessed and signed by the Program Administrator; (c) equipment-specific familiarization for each equipment class listed on the Matrix.
4.2.3 A state electrical license, journeyman card, or years of experience shall not, by themselves, constitute qualification under this Program.
7.1.1 All electrical work shall be performed in an electrically safe work condition established per Section 6, except where the employer demonstrates one of the justifications in 7.1.2, documented on the Energized Electrical Work Permit (Appendix D).
7.1.2 Permitted justifications are limited to: (a) de-energization introduces additional or increased hazards; (b) infeasibility due to equipment design or operational limitations, as defined by NFPA 70E. Production schedule, customer preference, inconvenience, and cost are not infeasibility and shall not be accepted on any permit.
7.1.3 Where a permit specifies electric shock or arc flash PPE, an additional person meeting the emergency response training requirements of Section 10 shall be stationed outside the greater of the Limited Approach or Arc Flash Boundary for the duration of the task. Tasks that cannot meet this staffing requirement shall be rescheduled. [2027 provision — trigger language verified against the published edition during development]
- Description of circuit/equipment, location, and work to be performed
- Justification category (7.1.2) with supporting infeasibility determination
- Shock risk assessment: nominal voltage, limited/restricted approach boundaries, shock PPE
- Arc flash risk assessment: incident energy or PPE category, arc flash boundary, required arc-rated PPE
- Job safety plan reference and pre-job briefing record
- Additional-person assignment and emergency response verification
- Means of restricting unqualified persons from the work area
- Approvals: Qualified Person → Supervisor → Program Administrator (all three required)
04Who this is for
| You are… | What the engagement looks like |
|---|---|
| A small-to-mid manufacturer, food plant, or facility with maintenance techs doing electrical work | Full ESP development from a site assessment: equipment classes, staffing reality, LOTO integration, qualification plan |
| An electrical contractor | Contract-employer ESP: service-work SOPs, host-site information exchange, crew qualification documentation you can hand to hosts |
| A public entity — municipal utility, water district, school district | Program adopted by policy with board-ready language — because in federal-OSHA states, no one else is coming |
| A larger site with an outdated program | Gap assessment and rewrite to the 2027 edition, keeping what works, replacing what doesn't |
| A company that just had an incident or citation | Priority rebuild with abatement documentation in mind |
05How it works
- 1. Discovery call — your operations, equipment, staffing, and current documents (free, no obligation)
- 2. Site assessment — on-site or structured-remote review of equipment classes, work practices, and existing studies/labels
- 3. Draft program — full ESP with working appendices, delivered for your review
- 4. Review cycle — we walk the draft with your team and revise to fit how the work actually happens
- 5. Rollout support — implementation sequence, and training for your team through ArcFlashTraining.org mapped directly to the program's requirements
Program development pairs naturally with training — the class teaches your people the system; the ESP is the system — but neither is required to buy the other.
Tell us your industry, headcount, and what you have today — we'll tell you honestly what you need, even if the answer is "less than you think."
ESP development is a documentation and program-design service. It does not replace an incident energy analysis (arc flash study), which requires engineering calculation of your specific electrical system — though we'll coordinate with your study provider and build the program around the study's outputs.