Electrical Safety Inspection in CanadA
Table of Contents
The Crucial Importance of Electrical Safety in Canada
Electricity is the backbone of a country’s infrastructure growth. Electricity is so integral to day-to-day activities, so often we forget to recognize the potential dangers associated with it.
Electrical energy always seeks for the shortest paths to the ground – when a person or object comes in contact, or is too close with a live electric wire or part, they can become part of an electric network. Electrical current exposes the person to serious, easily spread workplace hazard risks, making them more vulnerable to the danger of electrocution, fatal electrical shock, or severe burns.
In Ontario, 52 working personnel fatalities were reported due to electrocution in the last few years (non-intentional fatal accidents caused by contact with electricity) or by the effects of electrical burns while working with electricity.
Care Labs is providing several services for electrical projects such as electrical testing, study, analysis, inspection, and certification services. Our qualified and experienced professional team provides comprehensive electrical safety inspection and testing services for all types of facilities in Canada.
What is Electrical Safety Inspection & its Need?
An electric system is easily the most important element of your premises, and ensuring the safe and efficient working of your system is important to continue powering to your property. To help you with this, Care Labs team of skilled professionals has taken the time to put together this short list of helpful electrical tips you can follow to improve safety.
Electrical safety checks are not only the law, they’re the best way to ensure the safety of your property, upgradation. An electrical safety inspection is helpful to protect the people on your property from electrical hazards.
In electrical safety inspections, an arc flash study holds paramount importance. By meticulously assessing potential hazards and implementing effective mitigation strategies, it ensures the highest level of safety for personnel and equipment, mitigating the risk of catastrophic incidents. To know more about Arc Flash study Click here
A professional electrical safety inspection should be done about once every year or at minimum every two years so that the repairs can be rectified before your commercial property becomes unsafe or your business is fined a penalty by the local safety code authority.
It helps to identify any electrical hazards, ensures that all cables and electrical switchgears meet legal safety standards and that your property is safe, checks whether the equipment is in proper condition and functioning as it should.
Inspection check includes:
- Electrical Troubleshooting
- Wiring Troubleshooting
- Wiring Inspection
- Wiring Testing
- Electrical Panel / Breaker Inspection
When electrical inspection checks are required:
- Before new electric appliances are added to the existing power network
- After upgrades are done
- After a consumer has been disconnected electricity for long
- or before power can be reconnected at a premise that has experienced a fire accident and for an insurance claim
At Care Labs, we are offering electrical safety inspections, that comply with requirements of the Electricity Act of 1998 and the Ontario Electrical Safety Code (Ontario Regulation-10/02).
Electrical Inspection Checklist:
An electrical safety inspection checklist is an important tool that helps to find whether the conditions at your workplace and employees comply with the relevant electrical safety codes. Poor electrical safety practices can cause serious harm to both your working personnel and property resources.
The electrical safety inspection checklist should include the items that ensure your property or workplace’s adherence to CSA Z462, workplace electrical safety standard, C22.1-12 – Canadian electrical code, Ontario Regulation-10/02 electrical safety standards. It can be used as a guidance document that helps in electrical safety inspections of any premises.
Our electrical inspection checklist include:
- Are all electrical plugs, sockets, and fittings robust enough to use in the working environment?
- Any equipment that has been left plugged in inspected to ensure their proper grounding.
- To check the type & condition of grounding electrodes used.
- To check the proper connections and grounding methods for the installations and their maintenance status.
- To check the wiring methods and their suitability
- To check if all conductors of a circuit are bundled together
- To check the condition of the insulations and insulation standards
- Check for the usage of extension cords of proper size and their intended purpose.
- Check whether extension cords are rated by UL, CSA, or ETL
- Check for whether damaged extension cords were reported and removed from the service
- Check for faceplate condition in all panel boards and outlets
- Check for no loose wires, connections are accessible without removing the faceplate.
- Is there frequent tripping of circuit breakers or blown out of fuses
- All electrical installations checked periodically and corrective measures carried out by a professional technician?
- Availability of PPE kit
- Signs to notify the employers about PPE
- Damaged PPE kits discarded and replaced or not
Care Labs offer electrical safety inspection services to different industries including retailers, plant operators, manufacturers, governments and different organizations.
We offer services in Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Alberta and all the major states in the Canada. Contact Now!
