High & Low Voltage Electrical Safety Management
Clear responsibilities. Practical rules for your site.
Develop and review the systems that govern work on or near your electrical assets. Bring safety rules, operating procedures, permits and workforce requirements together for the people who operate and maintain your plant.
HV + LV
Connected safety arrangements
Site-specific rules
Reflect your plant and people
Workforce readiness
Competence and authorisation
Ongoing assurance
Review, change and improvement
When you need this
New sites.
Inherited procedures.
Unclear responsibilities.
Start with the arrangements your people use today and the changes you need to manage. Select anything that applies.
Outcomes & business value
Confidence in what trips — and when.
Make responsibilities clear
Define the roles, boundaries and coordination required between asset owners, operators, maintainers, contractors and network interfaces.
Connect rules to daily work
Give employees and contractors procedures and forms that reflect the equipment, access arrangements and work carried out on site.
Keep the system current
Establish a practical basis for training, authorisation, document control and review as the plant, workforce or operating model changes.
Scope & typical deliverables
Build the management system around your actual operation.
The work can cover a single procedure, a site-wide system or a common framework across multiple assets. We agree the boundaries and priority documents at scoping.
Review the existing arrangements
Assess current rules, procedures, diagrams, permits and audit findings. Consult the people responsible for operations and maintenance to identify gaps and document priorities.
Define the management framework
Develop or update the electrical safety management plan and rules, including responsibilities, asset boundaries, contractor interfaces and document governance.
Develop HV and LV procedures
Prepare site-specific operating and safe-access procedures, addressing isolation, lockout/tagout, switching governance, testing interfaces, earthing where applicable and return-to-service controls.
Align permits and supporting records
Develop or review access permits, isolation records and associated forms so their issue, receipt, transfer and cancellation fit the approved site arrangements.
Set workforce requirements
Define role-based competency and authorisation requirements, supporting registers and the training needs associated with the procedures.
Support implementation and review
Work through the documents with your team, identify rollout actions and establish review triggers. Procedure briefings, training and follow-up assurance can be scoped where required.
What you receive
A coordinated set of documents and implementation actions.
- Gap review and prioritised improvement actions
- Electrical safety management plan and/or Electrical Safety Rules
- HV and LV operating, isolation and safe-access procedures
- Permit templates, forms and supporting registers
- Roles, competency and authorisation framework
- Implementation plan, review requirements and editable documents as agreed
Tailored at scoping: deliverables depend on the existing system and project stage. Site visits, training delivery, detailed switching instructions and engineering studies are included where agreed.
Alignment with your site: relevant jurisdictional requirements, codes of practice, network interfaces, company procedures and manufacturer information inform the work. The document structure is agreed around your organisation’s existing management system.
Engagement options
Start with the support your site needs.
01 / Engagement option
Review & gap assessment
Understand the current system, identify inconsistencies and agree the priorities before revising the documents.
02 / Engagement option
Develop or update the system
Prepare new rules and procedures, or bring inherited documents into a consistent, site-specific framework.
03 / Engagement option
Implementation support
Plan the rollout, brief the affected teams and address training, authorisation and ongoing review needs.
Our approach
From the current arrangements to a system your team can use.
Understand the site and the work
Confirm the asset boundaries, voltage systems, operating model and people involved. Agree whether the priority is a review, a document update or a broader management framework.
Build a shared view of the gaps
Review the existing records and discuss how work is actually planned and controlled. Identify missing information, conflicting requirements and issues needing an early decision.
Prepare the agreed documents
Draft the management arrangements, rules, procedures and forms around the site requirements. Keep terminology and responsibilities consistent across the document set.
Work through the documents with your team
Review the draft with relevant operational and technical stakeholders. Resolve comments and check the interfaces and forms against representative work scenarios before client approval.
Plan adoption and ongoing review
Hand over the agreed documents with implementation actions. Identify the briefings, training and authorisation updates needed, and establish how changes and review findings will be managed.
Published project experience
Vestas Australia & New Zealand
Electrical Safety Management System
A common framework across a wind farm portfolio.
RelyOn’s published Vestas project brought existing HV Safety Rules into a broader electrical safety management system. The work addressed company policies, lockout/tagout arrangements and jurisdictional requirements across Australian and New Zealand operations, with a register to support ongoing compliance monitoring.
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FAQ's
Before you scope the work.
Are businesses legally required to manage electrical safety?
Yes. Businesses have duties under applicable WHS/OHS and electrical safety laws to manage electrical risks. In jurisdictions using the model WHS framework, a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) must eliminate risks so far as is reasonably practicable, or minimise them where elimination is not reasonably practicable. Victoria’s OHS framework places duties on employers and other duty holders. Site-specific plans, rules and procedures help put these duties into practice; the documents required depend on the installation and jurisdiction.
Can an asset owner delegate electrical safety responsibilities to a contractor?
Operational tasks can be assigned to a competent contractor, but engaging a contractor does not remove the asset owner’s own legal duties. Owners and operators retain the duties that arise from their role and their influence or control over the workplace and electrical assets. Relevant duty holders must work together to coordinate safety arrangements. We can help define responsibilities, contractor interfaces and oversight requirements so these obligations are reflected in the site’s electrical safety management system.
What if our contractor already has electrical safety procedures?
We can develop an asset-owner or site-level procedure that sets the minimum electrical safety standards and expectations contractors must meet. It can define responsibilities, competency and authorisation requirements, safe-access arrangements, permits, reporting and assurance without prescribing the contractor’s internal management structure or reproducing its detailed work methods. We can then review the contractor’s procedures against that baseline and help resolve gaps or conflicting requirements before the work starts.
Can you cover both HV and LV in one system?
Yes. We can develop a common management framework with the specific rules, roles and procedures needed for each part of the installation. The detail reflects the equipment, work activities and applicable requirements.
Can you work with our existing documents?
Yes. We review what is already in place and identify what can be retained, updated or consolidated. The aim is a coherent document set that fits your organisation and site arrangements.
What is the difference between a management plan, rules and procedures?
The management plan describes how electrical safety is governed and maintained. The rules set the requirements for people and work, while procedures and forms describe how those requirements are applied. We agree the terminology and hierarchy with your organisation.
Can you align the documents with our existing LOTO and permit system?
Yes. We review the lockout/tagout and permit arrangements alongside the electrical rules. Interfaces with contractors, network operators and other energy sources are considered within the agreed scope.
Does training automatically authorise someone to operate our equipment?
No. Training is one part of the competency requirements. The organisation responsible for the installation retains its approval and authorisation decisions, including the permitted roles, equipment and tasks. We can help define the supporting framework and records.
Can you support a portfolio across several states?
Yes. A common framework can be supported by site-specific requirements and jurisdictional differences. We agree the sites, network interfaces and local variations before defining the work.
What information should we provide?
Current safety rules and procedures, management plans, single-line diagrams, permits and isolation forms, role and competency records, network interface agreements and relevant audit findings. Recent plant or ownership changes are also useful context.
How often should electrical safety documents be reviewed?
Set a documented review cycle based on the applicable legislation, scheme requirements and site risks. Where a five-year revision requirement applies, it must be met; for example, major electricity companies in Victoria must submit revised electricity safety management schemes every five years. This is not a universal deadline for every electrical safety document. Review sooner when plant, operating arrangements, contractors or requirements change, or when incidents, audit findings or ineffective controls identify a need. We help establish the applicable review cycle and approval process.
Start with your site
Do your electrical safety arrangements reflect how your site operates?
Share your current rules, procedures or priority concerns. We’ll help define the review, documentation and implementation support you need.
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