Course detail
Safety in Electrical Engineering
FEKT-XPC-ELBAcad. year: 2025/2026
The main idea of the course is to introduce the students to the following problems:
- legal regulations related to labour safety and health protection in the Czech Republic
- principles of risk prevention
- safety rules for handling and operating an electrical apparatus
- safety rules for the maintenance of an electrical apparatus
- realizing protection against electric shock
- protection of electrical devices against lightning and overvoltage
- fire protection of electrical devices
- first aid upon electric shock
The course is not intended for first-year students bachelor students!
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
- an in-class test, 0 – 40 points
- a final test, 0 – 60 points
Any student who scores at least 75% of total points in each test is eligible to take an oral interview before an examining board. If successful, the student will be awarded a Certificate of professional qualifications in electrical engineering according to Section 6 of Notice No. 50/1978 Coll. Holders of the Certificate are considered highly qualified for independent operation and maintenance of an lv electrical apparatus (up to 1000 V).
Students wishing to be awarded the Certificate of professional qualifications in electrical engineering are required to attend the course instruction/lectures between weeks 3 and 8.
Aims
The course is not intended for first-year students bachelor students!
- evaluate the risks and avoid any danger posed by electricity,
- interpret the legal or technical regulations and standards related to the given discipline,
- explain the dangers of electricity to persons not familiar with this province,
- instruct persons intending to operate an electrical apparatus,
- apply first aid in case of electric shock.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Nařízení vlády č. 194/2022 Sb. o požadavcích na odbornou způsobilost k výkonu činnosti na elektrických zařízeních a na odbornou způsobilost v elektrotechnice (CS)
Zákon č. 250/2021 Sb. o bezpečnosti práce v souvislosti s provozem vyhrazených technických zařízení a o změně souvisejících zákonů (CS)
Recommended reading
ČSN EN 61140-ed. 3 Ochrana před úrazem elektrickým proudem. Společná hlediska pro instalaci a zařízení (CS)
ČSN 33 2000 Elektrické instalace budov, část 1 až 7 (CS)
Elektro v praxi 1. díl: Právní předpisy, základní normy, silnoproud. Olomouc: Solid, 2014. (CS)
ZS ČR. ZÁKLADNÍ ZNALOSTI ZÁSAD PRVNÍ POMOCI [online]. [cit. 2015-02-01]. Dostupné z: www.hzscr.cz/soubor/zakladni-znalosti-zasad-prvni-pomoci-pdf.aspx (CS)
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme BPC-AMT Bachelor's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
- Programme BPC-BTB Bachelor's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
- Programme BPC-ECT Bachelor's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
- Programme BPC-MET Bachelor's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
- Programme BPC-SEE Bachelor's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
- Programme BPC-TLI Bachelor's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
- Programme MPC-AUD Master's
specialization AUDM-TECH , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
specialization AUDM-ZVUK , 0 year of study, summer semester, elective - Programme MPC-BIO Master's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
- Programme MPC-EAK Master's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
- Programme MPC-EEN Master's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
- Programme MPC-EKT Master's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
- Programme MPC-EVM Master's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
- Programme MPC-IBE Master's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
- Programme MPC-KAM Master's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
- Programme MPC-MEL Master's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
- Programme MPC-SVE Master's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
- Programme MPC-TIT Master's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
- Programme BPC-NCP Bachelor's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
- Programme BPC-EMU Bachelor's 0 year of study, summer semester, elective
- Programme BIT Bachelor's 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
- Programme BIT Bachelor's 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Legal regulations, technical standards, and qualifications in electrical engineering: the Czech Republic and other European countries, electrical apparatuses and networks.
2. Electric shock in rooms and spaces, shielding and protection of powered objects, safe electrical products and installations, connection of electrical appliances.
3. Impact of the electric current on the human organism, protection against electric shock.
4. Protective equipment, assessment of operational risks, standardized safety signs and instructions; communicators and controllers, safe handling and operation of an electrical apparatus.
5. Fire safety of electrical devices.
6. In-class test.
7. Immediate first aid and resuscitation practice using a dummy.
8. Protection of electrical and electronic devices against lightning and overvoltage.
9. Summary of issues for examination before the interview.
10. Final test.
11. Interview.
12. Interview.
13. Interview.