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Event Registration - Electrical Safety for Center Pivot Irrigation Systems

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Wednesday, January 30, 2019
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time
To ensure electrical safety during operation, maintenance, inspection and testing of center pivot systems, this webinar will help you become aware of the potential electrical hazards you could be exposed to and understand the safe work practices and protective equipment necessary to ensure safety around these systems. This webinar will help you understand: -electrical safety concerns. -how the human body responds to electrical current in wet or damp areas. -electrical hazards commonly identified around center pivot irrigation systems. -how to identify suspect equipment installations, potentially unsafe conditions and hazardous conditions around center pivot irrigation systems. -safety practices and equipment needed to work safely. This webinar is worth one CEU in the Tier 1 - Irrigation Training category
  • Speaker(s)
    • Greg Stark
      Texas A&M Agrilife - College Station
      Greg Stark, PE, grew up in a small farming community in south-central Nebraska and received both bachelor's and master's degrees in agricultural engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Stark started his career in 1982 as a research engineer at the University of Nebraska assisting rural electric cooperatives in Kansas and Nebraska with irrigation and other agricultural load management programs. From 1988 to 2002, Stark served as executive director of the Texas Agri-Business Electric Council, an association of the investor-owned electric utilities in Texas operated by Texas A&M University that provided customer and employee training, as well as technical assistance to the utility company members. For the past 16 years he has split time between his consulting practice and the biological and agricultural department at Texas A&M University as an assistant professor of practice. Stark has been involved throughout his career with electrical standards for irrigation wiring through the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers and the National Electric Code. He is a licensed professional engineer in Texas and has authored or co-authored numerous technical publications, papers and conference proceedings.




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