Canada–Nova Scotia Offshore Area Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 144
Employer obligations 144 (1) Every employer must ensure, at each workplace under its control, that (a) hazardous energy is controlled in accordance with CSA Group standard Z460, Control of hazardous energy — Lockout and other methods ; (b) every energy-isolating device is (i) designed and located to permit its quick and safe operation at all times, and (ii) marked to identify, in the manner referred to in subparagraph 142 (a)(i), the equipment, machine, device or system whose energy source it isolates; (c) lockout devices and locks for securing them are readily available to employees who may need to carry out a lockout; (d) every lock used to secure a lockout device is (i) marked with a unique identification number, and (ii) openable only with a unique key; (e) no lockout device is secured on an energy-isolating device in a manner that prevents access to any other energy-isolating device; (f) every employee who secures a lockout device affixes to it a tag or sign containing only the following information: (i) the equipment, machine, device or system whose energy source has been isolated and the type of energy that has been isolated, (ii) words or a symbol prohibiting any person from starting or operating the equipment, machine, device or system, (iii) the date and time of the lockout, (iv) the name of the employee who secured the lockout device, and (v) the reason for the lockout; (g) no tag or sign is removed from a lockout device by anyone other than the employee who affixed it or to whom control of the device has been transferred in accordance with the procedures referred to in paragraph 142 (d); (h) any equipment, machine, device or system that has been locked out is inspected before being returned to service; (i) all electrical equipment is adequately guarded, insulated and, subject to paragraph 91 (1)(i), grounded to prevent electrical hazards; (j) all grounded electrical equipment that plugs into an electrical receptacle meets the following requirements: (i) its cord, if any, contains a grounding conductor, (ii) its plug and the receptacle into which the plug is inserted are not (A) connected or altered in a manner that might interrupt the continuity of the grounding conductor, or (B) altered to allow for use in a manner not intended by the manufacturer, and (iii) it is not used with an adapter that would interrupt the continuity of the grounding conductor; (k) work is not carried out on electrical equipment while it is energized unless necessary due to equipment design or operational limitations; (l) a competent person identifies, using an arc flash analysis, all electrical equipment that poses an arc flash hazard and that equipment has affixed to it a warning label setting out the date of the analysis and the following information reflecting the analysis: (i) the equipment’s nominal voltage, (ii) the arc flash boundary for the equipment, and (iii) an indication of (A) the available incident energy and corresponding working distance in respect of the equipment, (B) the arc flash category of personal protective equipment that must be used with the equipment, (C) the minimum arc rating of personal protective equipment that must be used with the equipment, or (D) the site-specific level of personal protective equipment that must be used with the equipment; (m) only the following persons work on energized electrical equipment used for the generation or distribution of electricity or install, repair, alter or test electrical equipment: (i) a person who is certified as an electrician under the laws of a province, (ii) a person who has qualifications from a jurisdiction outside of Canada equivalent to those of a person referred to in subparagraph (i), and (iii) a person who is undergoing on-the-job training under the direct supervision of a person referred to in subparagraph (i) for the purpose of becoming such a person and who has demonstrated an ability to perform tasks safely at their level of training; (n) electrical equi