APM STEP 1

Question 1

What are the rules for accessing BPA energized facilities?

Answer 1

1. Have a permit issues IAW the Rules of Conduct Handbook.

2. Be escorted by a person with a permit or a qualified utility worker with authorization to enter BPA facilities.

Question 2

What are the footwear requirements?

Answer 2

Lace up, over the ankle leather boots meeting ASTM F 2413-11 with an EH rating or ASTM F 2413-05, Class 75 with an EH rating.

Question 3

Where must safety boots be worn?

Answer 3

In areas where a hardhat is required or in other areas as determined by a supervisor.

Question 4

What is the minimum rating for arc rated clothing?

Answer 4

8 calories/cm*2

Question 5

When must arc rated clothing be worn?

Answer 5

When inside energized substation yards or when performing work that may expose you to an arc hazard.

Question 6

What materials are prohibited in clothing?

Answer 6

Acetate, nylon, polyester and rayon, alone or in blends. Unless, labelled with an Arc Protection Thermal Value of 8 cal/cm*2.

Question 7

How must you wear long sleeve, arc rated shirts?

Answer 7

With sleeves rolled down and tucked into pants.

Question 8

Where can you find more info on arc flash PPE?

Answer 8

BPA Work Standard, BPA-WS-11-6, Shock and Arc FlasH Assessment & PPE.

Question 9

What is used to prevent contact with energized parts?

Answer 9

Barriers

Question 10

Line insulator covers and similar devices allow?

Answer 10

Work within the MAD.

Question 11

How do you install line insulator covers and similar protective devices?

Answer 11

Under the protection of a Clearance or with hot-line tools.

Question 12

What is used to maintain Minimum Approach Distances or MAD’s?

Answer 12

Guards

Question 13

Who can install electrical guards?

Answer 13

Qualified Electrical Workers (Yellow Hats)

Question 14

What do you do when you see a red/white rope?

Answer 14

DO NOT ENTER THE AREA! All persons prohibited from entering.

Question 15

Who can install and remove a red/white rope?

Answer 15

Can be installed or removed under the direction of the Qualified Electrical Worker (QEW) in charge of the job.

Question 16

Who can install or remove a yellow/black rope?

Answer 16

Can be installed under the supervision of a QEW. Can be removed by anyone with the permission of the QEW in charge of the job.

Question 17

What else can red/white and yellow/black ropes be used for?

Answer 17

Nothing. They are the only colors allowed to be used for electrical guards and must only be used for that purpose.

Question 18

Environmentally contaminated areas shall?

Answer 18

Be guarded and identified by signs and may be entered by persons trained to protect themselves from the hazards present.

Question 19

Approved eye protection shall be worn when?

Answer 19

Whenever there is a danger of injury from electrical arcs or flying objects resulting from accidental electrical contact while working on energized electrical circuits or equipment.

Question 20

Where is the info for minimum compliance eye protection?

Answer 20

Accident Prevention Manual Section E-3

Question 21

What locations must hard hats be worn?

Answer 21

1. In fenced substation yards or other hard hat designated areas.
2. When engaged in or when in the close proximity of outdoor work or in all areas where there is exposure above head level to moving equipment, work, or material handling.
3. Persons working at elevated locations more than 4 feet above the ground and utilizing fall protection PPE shall wear a BPA approved climbing style helmet attached with chin strap.
4. When working on equipment requiring Arc Flash PPE. Wearing an arc rated hood with an integral helmet is acceptable.

Question 22

When can hard hats be removed?

Answer 22

Hardhats may be removed for work inside
transformers, reactors, power circuit breakers, under vehicles, or in similarly restricted/protected situations where there is no possibility of injury from falling objects.

Question 23

Yellow hard hats?

Answer 23

Qualified Electrical Workers holding an Electrical Worker Permit.

Question 24

Blue hard hats?

Answer 24

Riggers.

Question 25

Red hard hats?

Answer 25

Construction Equipment Operators

Question 26

Gray hard hats?

Answer 26

Carpenters.

Question 27

White hard hats?

Answer 27

Bitch ass apprentices and all others.

Question 28

The ________ shall conduct job briefings with all workers associated with the job.

Answer 28

person-in-charge

Question 29

When more than one _____ are working together, the ________ must be clearly established as part of the job briefing.

Answer 29

craft, person-in-charge of the job

Question 30

All job briefings must cover at least the following subjects:

Answer 30

1. Hazards associated with the job
2. Work procedures
3. Special precautions
4. Energy source controls
5. PPE
6. Clearances, Work Permits and Hold Orders

Question 31

Work shall be suspended and personnel shall seek a safe haven during times that local or close-in lightning is within _________ and remain in the clear for _____ after the last flash of lightning is seen or thunder is heard.

Answer 31

sight or sound, thirty minutes

Question 32

What reference is used when working near lightning?

Answer 32

BPA Work Standard BPA-WS-11-12, Working Near Lighting

Question 33

No part of a worker’s body or any conductive object held by a worker shall be moved closer to energized or ungrounded circuit parts than the _________.

Answer 33

Minimum Approach Distance (MAD)

Question 34

When work is to be performed within the Minimum Approach Distance, including the installation and removal of barriers, one of the following must be employed:

Answer 34

1. Use approved barriers IAW Rule B-1.
2. Use of live-line tools.
3. Clearance with all conducting parts shorted and bonded together and to a common ground IAW Rule G-1
4. Approved bare-hand work procedures contained in the Bare Hand Manual.
5. Lockout/Tagout IAW Rule L-3.