Application
797 If a requirement of this Part conflicts with a requirement elsewhere in this Code, the requirement
of this Part prevails.
798 Repealed AR 242/2022 s182.
Protective devices or equipment
799(1) An employer must ensure that a protective device and protective equipment required by this
Part meets the requirements of the following applicable standards:
(a) CAN/ULC-60832-99, Insulating Poles (Insulating Sticks) and Universal Tool Attachments
(Fittings) for Live Workings;
(b) CAN/ULC-D60855-00, Live Working — Insulating Foam Filled Tubes and Solid Rods for
Live Working;
(c) CAN/ULC-60895-04, Live Working — Conductive Clothing for Use at Nominal Voltage Up
to 800 kV A.C. and +/ 600 kV D.C.;
(d) CAN/ULC-60900-99, Hand Tools for Live Working up to 1000 V a.c. and 1500 V d.c.;
(e) CAN/ULC-60903-04, Live Working — Gloves of Insulating Materials;
(f) CAN/ULC-D60984-00, Sleeves of Insulating Material for Live Working;
(g) CAN/ULC-D61112-01, Blankets of Insulating Material for Electrical Purposes;
(h) CAN/ULC-D61229-00, Rigid Protective Covers for Live Working on a.c. Installations;
(i) CAN/ULC-61236-99, Saddles, Pole Clamps (Stick Clamps) and Accessories for Live
Working;
(j) CAN/CSA-C225-00 (R2005), Vehicle Mounted Aerial Devices.
799(2) Subsection (1) applies only to new protective devices and protective equipment put into
service as of the effective date of this Code.
799(3) A laboratory that performs electrical insulating materials testing to the standards listed in
subsection (1) must meet the requirements of ASTM Standard D2865 06, Standard Practice for
Calibration of Standards and Equipment for Electrical Insulating Materials Testing.
Safe work practices for electric utilities and rural electrification associations
800 An electric utility and a rural electrification association must ensure that all work performed by
utility employees is in accordance with the requirements of CAN/ULC-S801-14, Standard on Electric
Utility Workplace Electrical Safety for Generation, Transmission, and Distribution.
Safe work practices for industrial power producers
801 An industrial power producer must
(a) complete a written assessment of hazards associated with the production of electrical energy,
(b) implement written safe work procedures that are made available to utility employees, and
(c) ensure all work performed by utility employees is in accordance with the safe work
procedures required by subsection (b).
Coordinated work
802 If utility employees
(a) perform work on or near a power system, and
(b) their work activities may affect or be affected by a utility employee of another electric utility,
industrial power producer or rural electrification association,
the involved electric utilities, industrial power producers or rural electrification associations must
jointly develop and follow one agreed upon set of safe work procedures for isolating electrical
equipment and lines or blocking reclosing devices.
Communication lines, cables
803 A utility employee stringing or removing communication lines or cables near any electric utility
facility must ensure that
(a) the safe limit of approach distance between the communication lines or cables and energized
equipment or lines is met as required by CAN/ULC-S801-14, Standard on
Electric Utility
Workplace Electrical Safety for Generation, Transmission, and Distribution,
(b) the communication lines or cables are prevented from contacting overhead electrical lines,
(c) the work is done under the control of the operator of the electric utility system, and
(d) the work method is acceptable to the operator of the electric utility system.
Work on energized electrical equipment or lines (above 750 volts)
804(1) If work is performed on energized electrical equipment or lines, an employer must ensure that
(a) a minimum of 2 qualified utility employees are used to perform the work and an additional
utility employee is at ground level,
(b) aerial devices are equipped with both upper and lower controls, and
(c) if an aerial device is used to perform the work, either an additional utility employee qualified
to operate the lower controls is present at the work site at ground level or the utility employee
already at the work site is qualified to operate the lower controls.
804(2) Despite subsection (1), subsection (1)(a) and (1)(c) do not apply if
(a) a professional engineer certifies that an alternative live line work procedure provides adequate
utility employee protection,
(b) the live line work on the electrical equipment or lines is performed by one qualified utility
employee, and
(c) a 2nd qualified utility employee is present at the work site at ground level.
804(3) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to
(a) switching work,
(b) fuse replacement work,
(c) phasing work,
(d) measuring clearances with live line tools,
(e) power quality measurements with live line tools, and
(f) emergency situations in which, in order to protect life or property, a qualified utility employee
performs work to eliminate the electrical hazards.