What you can do to prevent outages
The right tree in the right place
When you plant a tree, be sure to maintain the required minimum clearance from power lines to prevent outages and nuisances in the future. Tree selection tool.
Nothing within 3 metres
Nothing is allowed to come within three metres of a power line when you are doing work outside the house (pool maintenance, scaffolding, tree pruning, etc.).
See Power safety.
If you must dig
If you need to dig (construction work, installing a pool, erecting a fence, planting a tree, etc.) call Info-Excavation at 1 800 ON-EXCAVE
(1 800 663-9228) to avoid damaging electrical, gas or telecommunications lines.
Always be safe around electricity
You can help avoid accidents and outages by adopting safe habits for your everyday electricity use. See the Power safety section.
