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FIELD SAFETY MANUAL | WRITTEN FOR THE OILFIELD, NOT THE CLASSROOM
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DAN DUDLEY & ASSOCIATES | ELECTRICAL TRAINING SOLUTIONS
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Practical Electrical Safety for the Oilfield
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Keep the Juice in Check on the Pad
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Real tips, NFPA 70E basics, and field tools for lease crew electricians, automation techs, and linemen working live equipment in the patch.
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314 pages · 8.5"x11" · Paperback (KDP Print-on-Demand)
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WE WROTE THE BOOK ON IT
This is the field manual we wish every crew had before their first live-equipment call. Not a franchised curriculum. Not a slideshow read by someone who's never opened an MCC in the field.
The patch is not a clean industrial shop. It's dust, mud, H2S, blowing sand, extreme heat, winter ice, a generator feeding a skid modified on the last location, and five contractors on one pad each with a different idea of who's in charge. This book was written for that environment — not a classroom.
15
Chapters, Cover to Cover
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8
Field-Ready Appendices
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3rd Gen
Master Electrician Author
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“Licensed” Is Not the Same as “Qualified”
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A person can be a skilled residential electrician and still be unqualified to troubleshoot a 480-volt motor control center on a production facility. A lineman may be highly qualified on overhead distribution and still unfamiliar with the stored energy inside a VFD. Qualification is tied to the specific equipment, voltage, hazard, and task — not a license number.
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Licensed ≠ Qualified. Experienced ≠ Qualified. Authorized ≠ Qualified.
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What's Inside
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Fifteen chapters covering the hazards that are actually specific to the patch — plus eight appendices built to be printed, filled out, and used on location.
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CHAPTERS 1–5
The oilfield environment, NFPA 70E on the pad, building a JSA/JHA that actually holds up, lockout/tagout with multiple energy sources, and PPE selection for the patch.
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CHAPTERS 6–10
Portable and temporary power, drilling rig and pulling unit electrical systems, static/bonding/grounding during fluid transfer, hazardous-location equipment, and overhead lines around cranes and mobile equipment.
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CHAPTERS 11–15
Electrification of modern oilfield operations, real-world case studies of what went wrong and why, electrical rescue when EMS is 45 minutes away, torque as a safety issue, and NFPA 70B maintenance for oilfield equipment.
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8 FIELD APPENDICES
Ready-to-use field forms and checklists, completed field examples, a 22-diagram safety graphics atlas, quick-reference tables, an emergency/rescue package, an NFPA 70B maintenance starter package, and a full glossary and regulatory matrix.
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Chapter 12: Case Studies — When Things Went Wrong
Composite field incidents built from recurring failure patterns — a VFD arc flash at an SWD facility, and more. Electrical incidents rarely happen because one person made one bad move. They happen because several controls looked fine separately and failed when the job crossed boundaries. Each case is broken down into what happened, what the evidence showed, and the real cause that had to be corrected.
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Who This Book Is Written For
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• Electricians working on services, generators, switchgear, motor control centers, VFDs, ESP systems, pumps, compressors, and temporary power
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• Automation and instrumentation techs working on PLCs, RTUs, transmitters, control panels, radios, solar systems, and battery banks
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• Linemen building or maintaining overhead and underground supply systems serving leases and pads
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• Pumpers, operators, rig hands, mechanics, welders, and supervisors whose work puts them close to electrical equipment or whose actions can change an electrical hazard
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Keep the power flowing. Keep every person on the crew alive and able to go home.
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314 pages · 8.5"x11" · Grayscale Paperback · Written by a 3rd-Generation Master Electrician
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electricaltrainingsolutions.org
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Dan Dudley & Associates / Electrical Training Solutions · P.O. Box 14476, Odessa, TX 79761
800-718-2717 · Text 432-770-0407 · [email protected]
electricaltrainingsolutions.org · dandudley.com
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