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Wind and solar safety manual template

A complete written health and safety program for contractors whose crews build, commission, maintain and repair wind farms and solar facilities in every province and territory. It is laid out on the 14 national COR elements and written for the work: climbing turbine towers and service lifts, rescue and evacuation from the nacelle, hub and tower, rotor and yaw locks, electrical isolation and arc flash, hub and blade interiors, rope access, component exchanges, bolt tensioning, nacelle fire, ice throw, solar DC hazards and battery storage. Section 15 sets out the law of every province and territory, and federal workplaces, side by side, with each jurisdiction’s rules for electrical work, rescue at height, confined spaces and cranes. It arrives as an editable Word file you make your own.

A look inside

Sample pages from the manual, marked and cut short. Your copy has no watermark.

Cover with room for your logo and company name

Linked table of contents, laid out on the 14 national COR elements plus a section on working across Canada

Section 3: eighteen safe work practices written for wind and solar crews, rescue and evacuation shown

Section 15: each jurisdiction's rules for electrical work, rescue at height, confined spaces and cranes

Appendix A: all 74 documentation questions of the national COR elements mapped

Print-ready permits and forms: the rescue and evacuation plan shown

What’s in the manual

1. Safety and health policy

A signed, dated policy, the written program, and responsibilities for management, site leads, wind technicians, electricians, blade technicians and solar installers, and how we work under the owner’s rules and switching program.

2. Hazard assessment, analysis and control

Formal hazard assessments by type of wind and solar work, the 5 × 5 risk matrix, a critical task inventory, and the turbine or array site hazard assessment done on every job.

3. Safe work practices

Eighteen practices for wind and solar crews: climbing and service lifts, rescue and evacuation, rotor and yaw locks, electrical isolation and arc flash, hub and blade interiors, rope access, cranes and component exchanges, bolt tensioning, nacelle fire, ice throw, solar DC hazards, battery storage, composites, weather, driving, working alone and tools.

4. Safe job procedures

Step-by-step procedures for climbing and entering the nacelle, locking and isolating a turbine, entering the hub, evacuating an injured worker, a main component exchange, blade repair, isolating a solar string or inverter, and a nacelle fire or approaching storm.

5. Company safety rules

Life-saving rules for wind and solar crews (always connected, no climb without rescue, lock, test, then touch), working under the stricter of our rules and the owner’s, and a progressive discipline process applied the same way every time.

6. Personal protective equipment

Climbing harnesses and lanyards, rescue and descent kits, arc-rated clothing and rubber gloves for AC and DC, rope access gear, and protection from resins, composites and weather.

7. Preventative maintenance program

Climbing and rescue gear, AC and DC test equipment, torque and tensioning tools, lifting tools and platforms, and checking the owner’s lifts, ladders and anchors are in date.

8. Training and communication

Qualified electrical workers, climbers, rescuers and rope access technicians, a supervised first climb on each turbine model, and a tailboard at every turbine.

9. Inspections

Rescue kits, ladder fall arrest systems and service lifts, rotor and yaw locks, torque tools, rope access gear, and special inspections after an incident.

10. Investigations and reporting

Incidents reported to the owner and to the regulator where they happened, turbine-specific dangerous occurrences, and investigations.

11. Emergency preparedness

Rescue from the nacelle, hub, tower and service lift with outside help far away, nacelle fire and escape, electrical contact and arc flash, solar DC and battery incidents, ice, lightning and remote medical evacuation.

12. Statistics, records and document control

Rescue plans, isolation and lockout records, hub entry permits, lift plans and inspections, kept for the longest period any jurisdiction requires.

13. Legislation

OHS law where the turbine or array is, electrical safety law, the standards and guidance the manual follows, and the right to refuse.

14. Procurement and contractor management

Working for owners, operators and turbine makers, crane and rope access subcontractors, and buying climbing, rescue and electrical gear fit for the work.

15. Working across Canada

Whose law applies, then every province and territory and federal workplaces side by side: the act and regulation, the regulator, each jurisdiction’s rules for electrical work and the electrical safety authority, rescue at height and rope access, confined spaces and cranes, serious incidents to report and how fast, and the other rules that change at the border.

Appendix A. COR cross-reference

Every one of the 74 documentation questions in the 14 national COR elements, what it looks for in plain words, the section that answers it, and whether the auditor will also want your records.

Appendix B. Forms

36 print-ready forms that match the manual, each with a form code: among them the turbine or array site hazard assessment, rescue and evacuation plan, isolation and lockout record, hub entry permit and component exchange lift plan.

Written for the work, not just the province

A wind crew works 80 metres up, an hour from an ambulance: a rotor that wasn’t locked, a fire in the nacelle, a casualty who has to come down by your own crew’s hands. A solar crew works on modules that are live whenever the sun is up. This manual is written around them, practice by practice and procedure by procedure.

You work under the owner’s rules and switching program and the turbine maker’s manuals. The manual says how yours and theirs fit together, and the stricter rule always wins.

One program for every province you work in

Your crews follow the occupational health and safety law of the province or territory where the turbine or array is, not where your office is. The manual sets your company’s rules once and gathers what changes at each border into section 15, so a supervisor starting work in a new province looks up what applies there.

It is laid out on the 14 national COR elements, so it suits a COR audit wherever you certify. Each certifying partner uses its own audit tool, so check it against yours; our provincial manuals follow each province’s audit exactly. No template can guarantee a certificate on its own, and we don’t claim to.

Who it is for

Wind farm construction and service contractors, blade repair and rope access companies, and solar installation and maintenance contractors.

A template is a starting point, not legal or engineering advice: a qualified person must adapt it to your work and your owners’ rules before you issue it.

Lifetime updates

When the law changes, we publish a new edition and email everyone who bought the template. Every update is free, for as long as we publish it.

Version 1.0 October 16, 2026
- First edition, written for wind and solar installation and maintenance crews and laid out on the 14 national elements of the harmonized COR audit.
- Section 15 sets out the law and the electrical, rescue, confined space and crane rules of every province and territory and federal workplaces, checked against the legislation in force on 16 October 2026.