Please find attached Safety Advisory SA 2025-02.
The Canada Energy Regulator (CER) expects regulated companies to demonstrate a proactive commitment to continual improvement in safety, security, and environmental protection, and to promote a positive safety culture as part of their management systems.
Preventing damage to pipelines is a responsibility shared by CER-regulated pipeline companies, third-party project owners with projects near pipelines, and the people performing the work, whether employees, contractors, or subcontractors. The enclosed Safety Advisory is being issued to reinforce regulatory requirements relating to ground disturbance activities near CER-regulated pipelines.
Safety Advisories are issued periodically to inform the oil and gas industry of an identified safety or environmental concern with the goal of preventing the occurrence of related incidents. A Safety Advisory serves to highlight CER requirements, and to convey the CER’s expectation that regulated companies take appropriate action to mitigate any potential impacts to people or the environment.
If you have any questions regarding this advisory, please contact the Director of Research and Innovation on their toll-free number at 1-800-899-1265 or via email to SafetyandInformationAdvisories@cer-rec.gc.ca.