Data center safety and access control

Skills you'll practise

• Follow access-control rules (badging, tailgating, visitors, cages) and spot violations in logs
• Respond correctly to fire alarms and clean-agent pre-discharge warnings
• Recognize electrical hazards (arc flash, panels, EPO) that only qualified people handle
• Apply safe lifting, rack-stability and floor-tile practices

Course outline

1. 1.Data center safety and access controlVideo · 2 min
2. 2.Access control and visitorsLesson · 12 min
3. 3.Fire, electrical and physical hazardsLesson · 15 min
4. 4.Lone working, noise, heat and working at heightLesson · 13 min
5. 5.Data center safety and access control: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 25 questions
6. 6.Data center safety and access control: practical exerciseKnowledge check · 1 question
7. 7.A vendor without a visitor bookingScenario
8. 8.Final exam8 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out

Sources it draws on

The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.

• NFPA 75: Standard for the Fire Protection of Information Technology Equipment
• NFPA 70E: Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace (arc flash, lockout/tagout)
• NIOSH Revised Lifting Equation (recommended weight limit 23 kg / 51 lb under ideal conditions)
• OSHA 29 CFR 1910.95: Occupational noise exposure (US general industry; 85 dBA action level and 90 dBA PEL as 8-hour TWAs)
• ANSI/TIA-942: Telecommunications infrastructure standard for data centers
• General data-center operations practice