Canada Occupational Health and Safety Regulations

8.18 (1) The guarantee of isolation ends when work on, or a live test of, isolated electrical equipment is completed and the following conditions are met:

• (a) every person in charge,

  • (i) has informed the guarantor that the work or live test is completed, and

  • (ii) has made and signed a record containing the date and hour when they informed the guarantor and the name of the guarantor; and

• (b) on receipt of the information referred to in paragraph (a), the guarantor made and signed a record containing

  • (i) the date and hour when the work or live test was completed, and

  • (ii) the name of the person in charge.

(2) The records referred to in subparagraph (1)(a)(ii) and paragraph (1)(b) shall be kept by the employer at the employer’s place of business nearest to the work place in which the electrical equipment was located when it was isolated, for a period of one year after the day on which they are signed.