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New York City sits on top of Con Edison's underground network, about 93,000 miles of cable, and its Manhattan carrier hotels hold more than a hundred network carriers under one roof. We train the electricians, building engineers and facility crews who work in it, at your facility or in an in-person class we set up in New York when you ask.
New York runs a state plan for public employees only. Private employers are inspected by federal OSHA. Every class is live, on the 2027 edition of NFPA 70E, and taught by a Certified Safety Professional. New York electrical safety training requirements →
Among the teams we have trained in the last year
Four ways to train your New York crew
Crews we train in and around New York: commercial real estate, health care, data centers and carrier hotels, transit and infrastructure, electrical contractors, public agencies.
What the class covers for New York crews
New York State has no statewide electrician license. In the city, the Department of Buildings licenses master and special electricians. That license covers installation work. NFPA 70E qualification on your equipment is still the employer's job to train and document.
Shutting down a riser in a 40-story building affects every tenant above it. We cover how to decide between an outage and justified energized work, and how to write it up so it holds up.
Carrier hotels and enterprise data rooms in Manhattan run UPS and battery systems well above street level. We cover stored energy and DC hazards for the critical facilities crews who maintain them.
A typical renovation puts the building's own engineers, a licensed electrical contractor and tenant vendors in the same electrical room. We cover how host and contract employers split responsibility for energized work.
New York at a glance
Federal OSHA (private); PESH (public)
Con Edison; PSEG Long Island (Rockaways)
NYC DOB master and special electrician
JFK, LGA, EWR
Eastern
New York: what applies to your crews
Enforcement: federal OSHA and PESH
New York's OSHA-approved state plan, run by the Department of Labor's Public Employee Safety and Health (PESH) Bureau, covers state and local government employees only. Private employers in New York City are under federal OSHA.
Licensing: city, not state
New York State does not issue a statewide electrician license. The NYC Department of Buildings licenses master electricians and special electricians for electrical work in the city.
Where NFPA 70E fits
NFPA 70E is a consensus standard, not an OSHA regulation. Employers and inspectors use it to show how the electrical requirements in OSHA 1910 Subpart S and 1926 Subpart K are met, and OSHA can cite the General Duty Clause for recognized arc flash and shock hazards. Utility crews working on generation, transmission and distribution fall under OSHA 1910.269.
New York's electrical work environment
Most electrical work in New York happens inside existing buildings. Office towers, hospitals, residential high-rises and the transit system all depend on service equipment that has been upgraded piece by piece over decades.
Lower Manhattan also holds some of the oldest data center real estate in the country. 60 Hudson Street was built as Western Union's headquarters and now hosts more than 100 carriers. 32 Avenue of the Americas was AT&T's Long Lines Building, where every Bell System trunk line in the Northeast once converged. Google owns 111 Eighth Avenue, where Equinix and Digital Realty still operate, and Sabey runs data center floors at 375 Pearl Street.
Those buildings put UPS rooms, generators and switchgear inside occupied towers, with freight elevators, tight risers and busy streets outside. Planning a shutdown means coordinating with landlords, tenants and sometimes the utility.
Con Edison and PSEG Long Island
Con Edison delivers electricity across the five boroughs, except the Rockaways in Queens, which are served by PSEG Long Island. Con Edison's service area covers about 660 square miles of New York City and Westchester County, and much of it runs underground.
Networked distribution in dense parts of the city can deliver high available fault current at the service. Arc flash studies and labels in New York buildings need to stay current, and crews should not assume a small panel means a small hazard.
Who we train in New York City and the five boroughs
Chief engineers and building engineers in office towers, operating and maintaining service equipment for tenants.
Facilities electricians at the city's hospital systems, where emergency power and patient care loads stay on.
Critical facilities crews at 60 Hudson Street, 32 Avenue of the Americas, 111 Eighth Avenue and other Manhattan data center buildings.
Contractors and maintenance crews working on subway, rail, bridge and tunnel systems.
Licensed master electricians and their crews on renovations, tenant fit-outs and new construction across the five boroughs.
City agency, school and housing maintenance staff, covered by PESH as public employers.
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Questions from New York employers
Do you have a scheduled class in New York?
Can you run the class in our building?
Our building engineers are not electricians. Do they need NFPA 70E training?
Do you cover crews in New Jersey and Westchester too?
Does finishing the class make someone a qualified electrical worker?
What the people in the room say
“Virtual can never replace hands-on, but the engagement from our instructor and the class made it feel more engaging than some in-person courses I've taken.”
“Probably one of the most useful safety courses I've ever attended. Rick genuinely cares about people and their well-being.”
“This is the 2nd arc flash training course I've taken and the class was amazing. I feel like I'm leaving the training safer than before I took this class.”
Train your New York crew on the 2027 edition.
Onsite within a few days, or private live virtual as soon as tomorrow. Need it fast? Call (813) 725-0999.