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| Ryan_J |
Our state has a requirement that electricians recieve 16 hours of approved continuing education every 2 years. This year when the license packets were mailed out, about 15-25% came with audits. Because of this I am completley bombarded with requests for Saturday classes. I am already scheduled out through all of July. Anyway, what I want to know is, if you were required to go to an 8 hour code class, what would you like to have discussed? The two that I do the most are hazardous and overcurrent, and I have taught them too much. I need to creat more material and and could really use your help. Thanks in advance. All work and no beer makes Ryan go crazy. |
| cs409 | they should change the requirement for continuing education to ever 3yrs, and it should be during the spring of the year after the new NEC comes out,,,make it all code updates along with general understanding of the code.... |
| Scott Vickrey | I think Grounding and Bonding would be a good subject. In Texas we are just starting to require this. This comes with other major changes like a state-wide license. Some areas in Texas were already required to take continuing education classes. I think they are a great idea. |
| SteveMc | I agree with Scott, grounding and bonding are the most misunderstood areas of the code and IMO the most important. Good luck with your classes. |
| JimmyDee | quote: This is required in Michigan. I think it works good. Jim |
| cs409 | Jimmy, how many hours required? |
| cal_sparky | Ryan, --spas --pools --old wiring (corectly adding onto and also evaluating condition). Cliff |
| Electricmanscott | Ryan I would like to go to a class and have the instructor ask what we would like to discuss. Maybe a room full of people that do mostly residential could talk about on the job issues that come up. Kind of an informal code session that develops through the day. Reading through these boards everyday it is amazing some of the stuff I read. Things I thought were basic common knowledge to everyone usually aren't. Our Massachusetts requirements are 15 hours of code update every three years and 6 hours of another type of continuing ed also. Total of 21 hours. The thing that gets me about this is there is no deadline other than the three year code cycle. It would make more sense to me to allow one year max to get updated when the code changes. |