Electrical Safety, Protection and Relays
6th - 7th April 2026
Dusit Thani Hotel, Dubai U.A.E.
Meet Our Trainer
David Davenport
This course is delivered by a highly experienced Chartered Electrical Engineer with over 40 years’ expertise, beginning as an electrical apprentice in the mining industry and progressing to senior leadership roles across aerospace, mining, oil & gas, data centres, heavy industry, marine, and micro-grids. He is a Board Member and Chief Electrical Engineer with ESIPAC, and a recognised authority in electrical safety, high-voltage operations, commissioning, and infrastructure project delivery. His career includes leadership of high-profile international projects such as Airbus A380, Concorde re-flight, hydrogen power plants, biomass generation, and major industrial sites. A CEng, MIET, Fellow of the Institute of Leadership & Management, IOSH-certified, and Senior Authorised Person (HV & LV), he has delivered global training, conferences, and seminars across Europe, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, and was recently recognised at the House of Lords for service to industry.
Learning Outcomes Key Topic
- Understanding of Protection Systems: Gain an in depth grasp of both HV and LV electrical protection systems, importance of discrimination and settings including fault analysis and short circuit studies following IEC and IEEE standards.
- Insight into Instrument Transformers: Learn the critical role of CTs and VTs in relaying accurate signals, including proper selection, installation, and potential pitfalls.
- Protection Scheme Design: Familiarize with protection methods such as overcurrent, differential, distance, motor, generator, and transformer, generator, arc flash and safe access protection to design resilient safety systems.
- Practical Skills in Testing and Coordination: Acquire hands on experience.
- Practical and Enhanced Troubleshooting and Decision Making: Develop the ability to diagnose issues and apply best practices to mitigate risks, ensuring rapid and precise responses in critical industrial settings, effective troubleshooting and system optimization.
- Interactive Learning Environment: Engage in Q&A sessions, real world case studies, and discussions that bridge the gap between theory and practical application.
Reason To Attend This Training
- Strengthen Electrical Safety Competence: Reduce the risk of equipment damage, life threatening failures, and power system downtime through expert relay coordination and fault detection techniques.
- Apply International Standards with Confidence: Learn how to implement IEC and IEEE standards in practical protection schemes that meet global safety and reliability benchmarks.
- Bridge the Gap Between Theory and Practice: Move beyond textbooks into hands-on applications, real-life case studies, and interactive discussions that prepare you for actual site challenges.
- Stay Ahead in a Fast-Evolving Field: As technologies evolve and systems become more integrated, understanding protection relay design, settings, and testing methods is critical for operational excellence.
- Work Smarter and Safer: Leverage techniques to improve system reliability, reduce downtime, and prevent catastrophic failures—critical for engineers tasked with ensuring safe and efficient operations.
Course Details
Day 1
Day 2
Electrical Safety, Arc Flash, Fault Studies and Protection
Session 1: Course Objectives, Electrical Safety and HV/LV Protection Standards
- - Open debate to assess improvements in understanding electrical safety, process and planning, followed by an introduction to protection and control systems and the purpose of electrical protection in networks to enhance safety and reliability in industrial power systems.
- - Overview of high voltage and low-voltage protection setups, including differences in relay types, breaker systems, and typical protection schemes used at different voltage levels.
- - Introduction to IEC and IEEE standards governing protective relaying practices, establishing best practices and terminology used throughout the course.
Session 2: Electrical Safety and Arc Flash Practices
- - Electrical safety as paramount to worker competence and confidence, including improving risk assessments, applying the hierarchy of controls, and general good practices considering high incident energy levels.
- - Prevention of arc flash through careful planning, evaluation of all available options, understanding inadvertent causes of catastrophic incidents in today’s electrical infrastructure, and time proven working methods that support worker safety.
Session 3: Faults, Short Circuit Studies and CT/VT Fundamentals
- - Fundamentals of electrical faults and short circuit analysis, common fault types, calculation of fault currents using IEC/IEEE methods, and understanding fault magnitudes for equipment rating, relay setting, and protection device selection.
- - Current and voltage transformers providing critical inputs to protective relays, including their importance, characteristics such as ratio, accuracy class, burden and saturation, and proper selection and installation in accordance with IEC/IEEE standards.
Session 4: Overcurrent and Earth Fault Protection
- - Overcurrent and earth fault protection in HV and LV systems, including instantaneous and time-delayed tripping using inverse time characteristics (IEC, ANSI or IEEE relay curves) and their application in protective devices.
- - Detection and clearance of residual and ground fault currents to prevent shock and equipment damage, with practical examples from HV feeder relays and LV circuits, setting the foundation for protection coordination.
Protection Relays, Testing and Emergency Power Integration
Session 1: Differential Protection
- - Principle of differential protection for detecting internal faults by comparing currents entering and leaving a protected zone such as transformers, generators, or busbars, and isolating equipment when faults occur.
- - Application considerations including CT ratio matching, pickup threshold settings, and stabilisation against external faults or inrush currents, discussed in line with IEC/IEEE guidelines.
Session 2: Motor and Generator Protection and Black-Start Testing
- - Protection and control schemes for motors and generators, covering thermal overload, locked rotor, phase imbalance, ground fault protection, high inrush currents, and frequent start-stop duties.
- - Generator protections including differential, overcurrent, ground fault, voltage and frequency protection, reverse power, loss-of-excitation, black-start schedules, benefits, risks, and operational awareness for on site staff.
Session 3: Transformer Protection
- - Transformer fault scenarios and dedicated protection methods, including differential protection settings, servicing considerations, harmonic restraint, bias settings, and stability during inrush or external faults.
- - Electrical and mechanical protection including overcurrent, earth-fault, arc flash, restricted earth fault (REF), Buchholz relays, pressure relief devices, temperature monitoring, and asset lifetime enhancement in line with IEC/IEEE best practices.
Session 4: Protection Relays for Personnel and Asset Safety
- - Value of protection relays in preventing life loss, injury and catastrophic failures through correct settings that ensure fast fault intervention without nuisance tripping.
- - Identification of partial discharge, humidity and thermal warnings, and integration of early detection and prevention procedures to avoid long-term or catastrophic failures.
Session 5: Relay Testing and Commissioning
- - Relay testing and commissioning using primary and secondary injection (e.g. OMICRON), including test planning, pickup and time-delay verification, and differential relay testing with injected unbalanced currents.
- - Interpretation of results, comparison with relay settings, safety and best practices, routine maintenance and calibration to ensure reliable deployment and long term performance.
Final Q&A, Course Wrap Up and Feedback
- - Open Q&A to reinforce learning across both days, revisit key concepts and protection schemes, and ensure confidence in practical application.
- - Summary of key takeaways, best practices, overall electrical safety and system protection framework, and participant feedback and real world challenges.
Course Fee
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