NEN 3140 is the Dutch standard for the safe operation of electrical installations up to 1000 volts AC. It sets out which people may carry out which operations, how that designation is recorded, and how often equipment and installations have to be inspected. NEN 3840 is its high-voltage counterpart.
The standard translates the general duty of care in the Working Conditions Act into concrete requirements. If somebody works on an installation without a valid designation and it goes wrong, the employer is left empty-handed, both towards the labour inspectorate and towards the insurer.
In practice this rarely comes unstuck on the engineering and almost always on the administration. Designations expire, somebody picks up extra tasks without the designation being updated, or the refresher instruction was given three years ago and recorded nowhere. At an audit the question is not whether somebody is capable, but whether you can show that they are authorised. Digital learning records solve that where a folder in a cupboard does not.
What is the difference between an instructed person and a skilled person?
How often does refresher instruction have to take place?
Does an e-learning count as valid instruction?
Want to apply NEN 3140 in your own training programme?
We are happy to think along about the approach that fits your installation, your audience and your timeline.
Milan
Business development, STARK Learning