Electrical Safety Awareness Training in New Brunswick: Online Course
Electrical Safety Awareness, $34.95 CAD
A 30 to 40 minute online course that covers the electrical safety concepts that New Brunswick General Regulation 91-191, Part XIX (sections 286 to 289) expects New Brunswick workers to understand: how shock and arc flash injure, limits of approach to overhead lines, de-energizing and lockout, GFCIs and cord safety, the CSA Z462 boundary and PPE model, and what only a qualified electrical worker may do.
- Instant access after checkout, self-paced, works on any device
- Developed by CRSP-certified safety professionals
- Printable certificate of completion with verification code
- 30-day money-back guarantee
- Awareness level: pairs with your employer's site-specific procedure
What this course is (and is not)
It is awareness-level training: the shared knowledge every non-electrical worker, supervisor and contractor needs to recognize electrical hazards and stay outside the limits of approach. It covers the concepts in New Brunswick General Regulation 91-191, Part XIX (sections 286 to 289) in plain language, with quizzes and a final assessment.
It is not an electrician or qualified-person designation, a CSA Z462 arc flash practitioner course, or a substitute for a site electrical safety program. New Brunswick does not issue an electrical safety awareness licence, and this course does not authorize anyone to work on energized equipment. We do not claim the course meets or satisfies the regulation on its own; your employer pairs it with written procedures and supervision.
Buying for a crew? Corporate accounts let you assign seats and track completions. Need help writing the electrical safe work procedure or code of practice the regulation requires? Talk to a consultant.
What New Brunswick Requires for Electrical Safety
General Regulation (N.B. Reg. 91-191) under the Occupational Health and Safety Act, Part XIX, Electrical Safety, sections 286 to 289 including sections 287.1 to 287.41, in plain language.
In New Brunswick, electrical safety is governed by Part XIX, Electrical Safety, of General Regulation 91-191 under the Occupational Health and Safety Act, sections 286 to 289, including the detailed sections 287.1 to 287.41 added in 2001 and 2022. WorkSafeNB both administers the Act and enforces the Regulation. New Brunswick is one of the few provinces whose regulation names CSA Z462 directly.
Definitions (section 286). Electrical hazard means a danger of electric shock, arc flash burn, thermal burn or arc blast, and qualified person is defined separately for electrical equipment and for utility lines.
Qualified persons and rooms (sections 287 and 287.1). An employee may not work on energized electrical equipment, or on an energized utility line, unless the employee is the relevant qualified person. Rooms containing an electrical hazard must be marked with warning signs and entered only by qualified persons or persons who have been instructed and trained in the hazards.
Isolation and lockout (sections 287.2 and 287.3). Electrical equipment must be suitable for its use and maintained to the manufacturer's specifications. It must have a lockable, identified means of isolating its energy source in a location familiar to all employees, and the employer must supply a safety lock and key to any qualified person who may need to lock it out.
Testing and energized work (sections 287.4 and 287.41). Testing and troubleshooting must be done in an electrically safe work condition with rated, well-maintained instruments. Where work on or near energized exposed parts is justified, a written code of practice must set responsibilities, describe the equipment and hazards, justify the energized work and control access. Under section 287.41(2), the employer must use CSA Z462-15, Workplace electrical safety, or a standard offering equivalent or better protection, as a guide for selecting personal and other protective equipment, and must brief the employees involved on the code of practice.
Utility lines and distances (sections 288 and 289). Protective equipment is required for work on or near energized utility lines. An employee who is not a qualified person may not do work that could bring any person or object closer to an energized utility line than 900 millimetres up to 750 volts, 3.6 metres from 750 to 100,000 volts, 5.2 metres up to 250,000 volts and 6.1 metres up to 345,000 volts.
Enforcement, prevention resources and workplace injury insurance are all handled by WorkSafeNB.
This summary is for awareness only and is not legal advice. Always read the current consolidated text on the official site linked above.
Who Needs Electrical Safety Training in New Brunswick
Anyone who works near electrical equipment, uses powered tools and extension cords, or operates equipment near overhead or buried power lines, plus the supervisors who assign that work.
- Construction, crane and boom truck operators near lines
- Pulp and paper, sawmills and forestry operations
- Fish and seafood processing plants
- NB Power, telecom and utility contractors
- Manufacturing and metal fabrication
- Refinery, terminal and power generation sites
- Municipal public works, water and wastewater
- Agriculture, potato storage and irrigation
Also relevant for joint health and safety committee members, new and young workers, and contractors bidding on New Brunswick construction, industrial or utility-adjacent work who need documented awareness training before mobilizing.
Electrical Safety Training New Brunswick FAQs
Is electrical safety awareness training mandatory in New Brunswick?
Part XIX of Regulation 91-191 does not name a specific course for non-electrical workers. Section 287.1 allows entry to a room with an electrical hazard only by a qualified person or a person instructed and trained in the hazards, section 287.41 requires employees involved in energized work to be briefed on the code of practice, and section 289 sets the distances non-qualified employees must keep from utility lines. Employers meet those expectations by pairing general awareness training with site procedures. This course supplies the awareness half.
Does this course make me a qualified person in New Brunswick?
No. Section 286 defines qualified person by reference to Regulation 84-165 under the Electrical Installation and Inspection Act for electrical equipment, and to the lineman and power line technician certificates of qualification for utility lines; section 287 restricts energized work to those people. This is an awareness-level course for the people who work near electricity, not on it. On passing the final quiz you receive a printable certificate of completion with a verification code.
Does New Brunswick require CSA Z462?
Section 287.41(2) requires an employer to use CSA Z462-15, Workplace electrical safety, or a standard offering equivalent or better protection, as a guide for selecting the personal and other protective equipment employees must use for work on or near energized exposed parts. The course uses the Z462 boundary and PPE model to explain those concepts; it is not the Z462 practitioner course that qualified persons take.
How far must a non-qualified worker stay from a power line in New Brunswick?
Section 289(1) sets the distances: 900 millimetres up to 750 volts, 3.6 metres from 750 to 100,000 volts, 5.2 metres from 100,001 to 250,000 volts and 6.1 metres from 250,001 to 345,000 volts. An employee who is not a qualified person may not carry out work that could bring any person or object closer than those distances. The course explains the concept; the table sets the number.
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