This 90-hour course meets 4 days a week for 10 hours over two- weeks. As a result of this training students will be able to demonstrate hot stick safety practices including safe working distances, and minimum approach/clearance, and explain the use of the basic types of hot sticks and hot stick accessories used for transmission line maintenance; demonstrate the basic safety principles and methodologies of the "Bare-Hand Method"; explain substations and switchyards' basic function, purpose, and common equipment, then describe the safety hazards commonly encountered in substations and switchyards; identify tree cuts used for clearing trees and tree limbs from power lines and the safety hazards associated with tree trimming work then describe ways to avoid them; list the basic steps of troubleshooting overhead line problems and describe how these steps can be used to identify and correct both simple and complex problems; describe how to prepare for emergency situations and how problems are prioritized, and the safety considerations that must be followed during emergencies. Then demonstrate appropriate communications between field personnel and the dispatcher during an emergency situation.This 90-hour course meets 4 days a week for 10 hours over two- weeks. As a result of this training students will be able to demonstrate hot stick safety practices including safe working distances, and minimum approach/clearance, and explain the use of the basic types of hot sticks and hot stick accessories used for transmission line maintenance; demonstrate the basic safety principles and methodologies of the "Bare-Hand Method"; explain substations and switchyards' basic function, purpose, and common equipment, then describe the safety hazards commonly encountered in substations and switchyards; identify tree cuts used for clearing trees and tree limbs from power lines and the safety hazards associated with tree trimming work then describe ways to avoid them; list the basic steps of troubleshooting overhead line problems and describe how these steps can be used to identify and correct both simple and complex problems; describe how to prepare for emergency situations and how problems are prioritized, and the safety considerations that must be followed during emergencies. Then demonstrate appropriate communications between field personnel and the dispatcher during an emergency situation.