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San Diego is a Navy town, a shipbuilding town and a biotech town, all in one city. We train the electrical crews who support that work, at your facility or in an in-person class we arrange in San Diego on request.
California runs its own OSHA-approved state plan. Private employers here are inspected by Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA), California Department of Industrial Relations, not federal OSHA. Every class is live, on the 2027 edition of NFPA 70E, and taught by a Certified Safety Professional. California electrical safety training requirements →
Among the teams we have trained in the last year
Four ways to train your San Diego crew
Crews we train in and around San Diego: shipbuilding and ship repair, defense contractors, biotech and life sciences, healthcare, utilities and energy, electrical contractors.
What the class covers for San Diego crews
Ship repair and new construction put high-current temporary and shore power connections on the pier. Clear source control is critical when several contractors are working the same vessel.
Biotech and research labs depend on UPS and generators to protect samples and experiments. Maintenance has to be planned around that, and energized work needs a real justification.
Prime contractors, subs and government representatives share space on repair jobs. We cover how the host and contract employers split responsibility for energized work.
San Diego has a lot of rooftop solar and battery storage on commercial and public buildings. PV and battery hazards are covered in the 2-Day Intensive.
San Diego at a glance
Cal/OSHA (state plan)
SDG&E, San Diego Community Power
C-10 contractor + DIR certification
SAN
Pacific (PT)
California: what applies to your crews
Enforcement: Cal/OSHA
Cal/OSHA, part of California's Department of Industrial Relations, runs the state plan for private employers and state and local government. It enforces Title 8, with separate Low-Voltage and High-Voltage Electrical Safety Orders, and an 8-hour reporting rule for serious injuries.
Licensing: C-10 plus certification
California licenses electrical contractors through the CSLB (C-10). Their electricians must be certified by the Labor Commissioner's Electrician Certification Unit in DIR. Electricians employed directly by a lab, hospital or shipyard are qualified by that employer.
Where NFPA 70E fits
NFPA 70E is not a Cal/OSHA regulation. It is the consensus standard employers use to show how they meet Title 8's electrical requirements and the hazard training their written Injury and Illness Prevention Program must include.
San Diego's electrical work environment
Naval Base San Diego on the south bay is home port to about 54 ships, and the waterfront around it is lined with ship repair yards and contractors. General Dynamics NASSCO, headquartered in San Diego, builds Navy and commercial ships at the only new-construction shipyard on the West Coast.
North of downtown, Torrey Pines and Sorrento Valley hold one of the country's largest biotech and life sciences clusters, along with Qualcomm's headquarters and UC San Diego. Lab buildings there run on dense power with backup generation and UPS for freezers and instruments.
Between the two, San Diego has hospital systems, a busy cruise and cargo port, and contractors who work both sides of the county. A San Diego electrician might wire a lab tenant improvement one week and support a ship repair job the next.
SDG&E and San Diego Community Power
San Diego Gas & Electric, a Sempra company, owns the poles, wires and substations across San Diego. It serves about 3.7 million people through 1.4 million accounts in a 4,100 square mile territory that also reaches southern Orange County.
San Diego Community Power buys electricity for nearly 1 million customers in the city and other member communities, and SDG&E delivers it. For contractors, SDG&E remains the utility you coordinate service work, clearances and disconnects with.
Who we train in San Diego and San Diego County
Electricians and contractors at NASSCO and the repair yards along the bay, working shipboard and shore power systems.
Private contractors supporting Navy and Marine Corps installations around San Diego.
Facility engineers in Torrey Pines and Sorrento Valley labs, where UPS, generators and dense lab power run around the clock.
Hospital facility teams working on essential electrical systems across the region's medical centers.
Substation, distribution and solar and battery crews working on or near SDG&E's system.
San Diego C-10 contractors and certified electricians handling lab, commercial and public works projects.
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Questions from San Diego employers
Do you have a scheduled class in San Diego?
Can you train a ship repair contractor's crew near the waterfront?
Our lab facilities team rarely does high-voltage work. Is NFPA 70E still needed?
Can the class cover solar and battery systems?
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 San Diego 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.