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Frequently Asked Questions
- Gas
To qualify for a Gas Fitter licence you need a letter from the Saskatchewan Apprenticeship and Trade Certification Commission showing your successful examination results and the date your achieved this.
Not all Gas Fitters achieve their qualifications from SaskApprenticeship – we require proof of qualifications, either a Certificate of Qualifications from another province, or a letter of exam results from SaskApprenticeship.
- Gas
When working in Saskatchewan, two different licences are required:
- The Gas Fitter licence is for the individual to be allowed to perform the work in the province as a qualified Gas Fitter. We require a copy of their credentials as proof of qualifications to issue the licence; and
- The Gas Contractor licence is for the business/company to pull the permits through TSASK Inspections. We require a Gas Contractor’s guarantee bond to issue the licence.
- Electrical
- Gas
No, we issue our own Saskatchewan licence to you. We require proof of qualifications of your licence you obtained through your own province.
- Gas
Yes, these changes are important to keep accurate records of your account. If you do not have a qualifying Gas Fitter, your licence will be closed and you will not be able to pull permits with TSASK Inspections.
- Gas
Yes, you can reopen your licence without additional fees, as long as it is not past the expiry date.
- Electrical
- Gas
Yes, you can reopen your licence without additional fees, as long as it is not past the expiry date and you provide a new or renewed bond.
- Electrical
- Gas
Your licence will be closed and you won’t be able to pull permits with TSASK Inspections.
- Gas
We process completed applications within 24-48 hours. Your licence will be mailed via Canada Post.
- Amusement Rides & Devices
- Boilers & Pressure Vessels
- Electrical
- Elevating Devices
- Gas
A notice will be sent out one month prior to expiration of your licence.
- Gas
No. If you are the primary (qualifier) for a Gas Contractor, you can not work for another Gas Contractor.
- Electrical
- Gas
Surety bonds protect consumers by ensuring licensed gas and electrical contractors adhere to their legal responsibilities to correct non-compliant work. Currently, a $10,000 surety bond is required of both gas and electrical contractors in Saskatchewan.
- Electrical
- Gas
A bond is available from any licensed insurance company.
- Electrical
- Gas
Your licence will be closed and you won’t be able to pull permits with TSASK Inspections.
- Boilers & Pressure Vessels
You can pay your invoice online with VISA or MasterCard.
Other Payment Options:
- Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) – for Companies only – please contact our finance department by email at finance@tsask.ca for more details. This option is currently unavailable for individuals.
- Cash – in person only
- Debit – in person at our Regina Office only
- Cheque or Money Order – by mail or courier to: Technical Safety Authority of Saskatchewan, 2202 2nd Avenue, Regina, SK S4R 1K3
To help ensure the proper application of your payment, please include the bottom portion (or copy) of the first page of your invoice. You can also include the equipment inventory list if you have indicated any changes in ownership, location, or status. If you are submitting payment online, there is an upload function to attach a scanned copy of your invoice.
- Boilers & Pressure Vessels
The current licence for your equipment expires on June 30th; as of July 1st, you will be operating without a valid licence. Send payment as soon as possible.
- Boilers & Pressure Vessels
Your payment will be applied to the overdue fees before the current fees. If you do not pay the entire balance, we are unable to issue a current licence to operate your equipment.
Please be advised that should you choose to continue operating your equipment without paying all outstanding licensing fees, the equipment is considered to be non-compliant, which may result in additional fines/penalties.
- Boilers & Pressure Vessels
No, GST does not apply to licence based fees.
- Boilers & Pressure Vessels
Any changes to the status of equipment must be reported prior to removing any items from your invoice.
If you were invoiced for equipment that is no longer in service, please complete the Pressure Equipment Status Update form under Update Your Information, or email boilerpermits@tsask.ca.
Any changes to your equipment listing and the resulting invoice adjustments will be made within 5 business days of TSASK receiving and verifying your update. Please be advised that incomplete information may result in extended turnaround times.
- Boilers & Pressure Vessels
Any changes to the status of equipment must be reported prior to removing any items from your invoice.
If you were invoiced for equipment that you no longer own, please complete the Pressure Equipment Status Update form under Update Your Information.
Any changes to your equipment listing and the resulting invoice adjustments will be made within 5 business days of TSASK receiving and verifying your update. Please be advised that incomplete information may result in extended turnaround times.
- Boilers & Pressure Vessels
Please identify any changes required on the equipment list and submit a copy of the list with payment.
- Boilers & Pressure Vessels
The information on your invoice reflects our records as of April 18th. If you submitted changes or added additional equipment recently, it may not appear on your invoice. If something is missing from your equipment list, please contact our Customer Service Team by email at info@tsask.ca, or by phone at 1-866-530-8599.
- Boilers & Pressure Vessels
To work as a Pressure Welder in Saskatchewan, you must have a valid Saskatchewan welder’s licence issued by TSASK. Your licence will indicate the pressure welding you are allowed to perform. You may need to have more than one licence, depending on the type of welding you want to do.
If you have a valid Pressure Welder’s licence from outside of Saskatchewan, you can apply for an out of province welder’s licence transfer. It must have an expiry date that is at least 3 months later than the date of application for out of province transfer; otherwise, you can only be issued a valid welder’s licence by successfully completing a pressure weld test.
If you have never had a Pressure Welder’s ticket, you will be required to complete an initial 6” weld test as your first weld test.
- Boilers & Pressure Vessels
Pressure weld testing is available in Regina and Saskatoon every week – alternating between Wednesday and Thursday depending which facility is scheduled for that week. Clients can refer to the weld test schedule for clarification. Welding tests must be booked in advance by submitting an application form and fee before the cut off date.
- Boilers & Pressure Vessels
Weld testing can be done at a client’s welding facility on a request service basis for any process with a registered WPS. Additional fees will apply.
- Boilers & Pressure Vessels
We are unable to invoice for weld test payments or out of province licences. Your organization can submit the payment directly to us with your application or you can submit the fee yourself and ask them to reimburse you.
- Boilers & Pressure Vessels
Your SK ID number is a unique number we assign to you to help us manage your information. SK ID numbers are only assigned to Pressure Welders in Saskatchewan. You can find your number on any of the newer typed Welder’s Licenses. You will not have a number if you have never had one of the typed weld tickets.
If you do not have a number, or are unsure what your number is, you can leave that section of your form blank.
- Boilers & Pressure Vessels
If your Saskatchewan welder’s licence has expired, you are no longer able to do any welding that would require that weld ticket. There is no grace period or extension of your expiry date.
If you want to perform work that requires that weld ticket, you will need to obtain a new valid welder’s licence by successfully completing the weld test again. You are not required to re-perform an initial 6” weld test before re-testing for an expired licence, regardless of how long ago it expired.
If one of your welder’s licenses expires, it has no effect on any other valid Saskatchewan welder’s licenses that you have. You may continue to perform work using any other valid Saskatchewan welder’s licenses that you have.
- Boilers & Pressure Vessels
Please let us know what the error is and submit your ticket to one of our offices. We will issue your corrected ticket once we have received the incorrect one.
- Boilers & Pressure Vessels
To get a copy of your welder’s licence, complete the Application for Duplicate Welder’s Licence form and submit it along with the applicable fee.
- Boilers & Pressure Vessels
You will need to contact the jurisdiction you will be working in to see what their requirements are.
- Boilers & Pressure Vessels
We do not test for CWB. You can contact Saskatchewan Polytechnic for more information.
- Boilers & Pressure Vessels
Once you receive your certificate in the mail, you can purchase your licence online.
- Boilers & Pressure Vessels
If your licence expires and you are still working, you are operating illegally. Any steam time obtained while your licence is not valid, and will NOT count towards your next level of certification.
- Boilers & Pressure Vessels
No. However, please keep in mind that there is a chance you may have to rewrite your exams for that specific class if you let your licence expire for more than 5 years.
- Elevating Devices
The Ministry identified The Passenger and Freight Elevator Regulations, 2003, as a candidate for a full review to comply with Government’s objective to review regulations every 10 years, under the Red Tape Reduction Action Plan that establishes a framework to ensure the Government of Saskatchewan’s business related regulations remain effective, efficient and relevant.
As a result of the review, the Ministry worked with TSASK to identify the issues, options and the proposed amendments for each of the technical safety regulations. TSASK also conducted stakeholder consultations that contributed to identifying the issues and proposed solutions.
- Elevating Devices
The rewritten regulations will:
- Update codes and standards to the latest editions as applicable and continue Saskatchewan’s adoption of the established codes and standards for elevators, ski lifts, personnel hoists and lifts for persons with physical disabilities
- Remove all fee references as fees are set by TSASK bylaw
- Improve language and terminology within the regulations
- Elevating Devices
- For passenger elevators, freight elevators, dumbwaiters, dumbwaiters with automatic transfer devices, escalators, material lifts and moving walks, the ASME A17.1-2013/Canadian Standards Association standard B44-2013 Safety Code for Elevators, as amended by Part I of the Appendix
- For personnel hoists, the Canadian Standards Association standard CAN/CSAZ185-M87 Safety Code for Personnel Hoists
- For manlifts, the Canadian Standards Association standard B311-02 Safety Code for Manlifts
- For passenger ropeways, the Canadian Standards Association standard Z98-14 Passenger Ropeways
- For lifts for persons with physical disabilities, the Canadian Standards Association standard B355-15 Lifts for Persons with Physical Disabilities
- For electrical wiring, apparatus and devices associated with the construction or operation of an elevator, the latest prescribed edition of the Canadian Electrical Code, within the meaning of subsection 5(1) of The Electrical Inspection Act, 1993
- Elevating Devices
Additional exemptions were added for work platforms and freight platforms.
For example, freight elevators with limited elevation, mainly used for unloading materials from semi-trailer units to ground level are now exempt from the requirements of the regulations.
- Elevating Devices
New categories of contractor licensing classes have been established for owners in industrial locations, limiting the scope for work by approved personnel on site such as power plants, potash mines or mining operations:
- Class D, which authorizes the holder to:
- Provide elevator safety training programs and instruction to elevator emergency personnel, including those persons licensed as a Class B – Owner
- Access the elevator equipment areas such as the hoistway, top of car, pit areas, machine rooms and control rooms for the purpose of conducting a survey, audit, or developing elevator specifications on behalf of the elevator owner
- Class E, which authorizes the holder to:
- Conduct alterations to the interior of elevator cars for the purpose of refurbishing, restoring or replacing interior cab panels or ceiling materials and lighting fixtures
- Elevating Devices
The new regulations will not only improve public safety, but the public will support updating the regulations to better reflect current practices and ensure protection for people.
- Elevating Devices
Yes, where it is appropriate to do so and in the best interests of industry and the province. Part of any review is to look at what other jurisdictions are doing with respect to the application of codes and standards.
We believe that harmonization of codes and standards will lead to increases in productivity, reduce the regulatory burden on industry, which in turn should align with objectives in our trade agreements to limit barriers.
The province is committed to the process of notifying other jurisdictions of any changes to allow them to identify any impediments to trade or labour mobility under the New West Partnership Trade Agreement (NWPTA).
- Elevating Devices
Currently, contractors performing modifications to the interior of elevator cars are not required to have a specified permit. Interior car modifications affect the integrity of the elevator as a whole and require additional inspections and tests to be conducted to ensure overall safety.
The addition of a specific licence to perform interior car modifications will clarify notification and other requirements to renovate interior car spaces to ensure there is no adverse impact on elevator safety or operation.
The Red Tape Committee approved the approach to clarify matters with respect to interior elevator car renovations in the regulations.
- Elevating Devices
Complete the Request for Extension on Elevator Orders form to apply for an extension. You will be asked to include the following:
- Inspection Report ID
- Licence #
- The reason why the directives cannot be addressed on time
- Expected date of compliance
You will be contacted by email within 5 business days to confirm whether or not the extension has been approved.
- Elevating Devices
Your licence will remain suspended until all deficiencies have been cleared. If all outstanding items have been addressed, please re-submit a copy of the completed inspection/order to correct reports to our office.
Email elevatorsafety@tsask.ca or by mail/in person to:
Technical Safety Authority of Saskatchewan
2202 2nd Avenue
Regina, SK S4R 1K3
- Elevating Devices
If you received a licence suspension package, it means our records indicate the continued operation of a provincial elevating device with correction orders that remain outstanding 90+ days past their comply by date.
- Elevating Devices
You and/or your Elevator Contractor must address all outstanding directives, pay any outstanding invoices or reinstatement fees and provide our office with a completed copy of the inspection/order report.
Submit completed inspection/order to correct reports to elevatorsafety@tsask.ca or by mail/in person to:
Technical Safety Authority of Saskatchewan
2202 2nd Avenue
Regina, SK S4R 1K3
- Elevating Devices
- Please circle the units that are incorrect on the invoice and indicate what the issue is. For example: “We no longer use this elevating device. It is inactive”.
- Scan and email the corrected invoice with your changes to info@tsask.ca.
- We will investigate and send you an updated invoice.
- Elevating Devices
Licences are valid from January 1st – December 31 of the calendar year. As your licence expires on December 31st, please submit payment by January 1 or your elevating device will be operating without a licence. Licences are not pro-rated.
- Elevating Devices
Please check your junk/spam email folder to ensure your renewal invoice wasn’t redirected there. If the invoice was not marked as junk/spam, please email us at info@tsask.ca or call our office at 1-866-530-8599. Provide us with your owner name and licence number(s) and we will send you another copy.
- Elevating Devices
We can process your payment over the phone. Please call our office at 1-866-530-8599.
- Elevating Devices
To pay by cheque, please indicate the invoice number on your cheque and pay to the order of:
Technical Safety Authority of Saskatchewan
2202 2nd Avenue
Regina, SK S4R 1K3
- Elevating Devices
Our turnaround time is 10 business days. For your convenience, we can email your licence to you.
- Elevating Devices
Please complete the Update Company and/or Contact Information form located under Update your Information.
- Elevating Devices
Please complete the Request Change of Equipment Ownership form located under Update Your Information.
- Electrical
Electrical licence applications are found here on our website under Licensing. You can apply online, print the application form and mail it in, or visit our office in person.
- Electrical
You need proof of your Journeyperson certificate showing your qualifications, including your seal with inter-provincial number.
- Electrical
The Contractor licence is for the business/company to pull permits through TSASK Inspections.
You must have at least one Qualifier who is a licensed Electrical Journeyperson who has held their Red Seal for a minimum of 2 years. The Qualifier cannot be employed by another licensed electrical contractor.
We require a guarantee bond (bond number, surety, seal and/or signatures) to issue the licence.
- Electrical
No, you cannot.
- Electrical
Once a completed application is received, the licence is issued within 1-3 business days and mailed via Canada Post.
- Electrical
Renewals can be completed online through our website under Licensing.
- Electrical
Yes, you can reopen your licence without additional fees, as long as it is not past the expiry date.
- Electrical
Yes, these changes are important to keep accurate records of your account, if you do not have a qualifying electrician, your licence will be closed and you will not be able to pull permits with TSASK Inspections.
- Electrical
You need a permit before doing any electrical installation work. You can obtain a permit by logging into GEIS or call 1-866-530-8599.
- Electrical
You need an Electrical Contractor’s licence in order to pull permits.
- Electrical
When working in Saskatchewan, two different licenses are required:
- The Electrical Journeyperson licence is for an individual to be allowed to perform the work in the province as a qualified Journeyperson. We require a copy of your credentials as proof of qualifications to issue a licence and the qualifying Journeyperson must have held their Red Seal for a minimum of two years.
- The Electrical Contractor licence is for the business/company to pull the permits through TSASK Inspections. We require an Electrical Contractor’s guarantee bond to issue the licence.
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The only journeyperson credentials recognized in Saskatchewan are credentials that have been issued in Canada. If you have obtained a journeyperson certificate in another country and want journeyperson certification in Saskatchewan, you must apply for a trade qualifier assessment with Saskatchewan Apprenticeship and Trade Certification Commission.
You can apply to be assessed and see if you would meet the eligibility requirements to write the certification examination here in Saskatchewan. In order to qualify as an Internationally Trained Worker in the trade, you must prove required hours and years of trade experience.