Ontario
Ontario Private Security & Investigative Services Act (PSISA)
PSISA (administered by the Ministry of the Solicitor General) licenses security businesses and individuals in Ontario. Related to electrical and low-voltage work, the Electrical Safety Authority (ESA) licenses low-voltage contractors and mandates the safety standards that low-voltage installations must meet.
Applies to
Security integrators, guards, investigators, and agencies operating in Ontario.
What it requires
The obligations, in plain English.
Licensed agency
A business providing security services, monitoring, or installation in Ontario must hold a current licence.
Licensed individuals
Technicians and guards must hold individual licences appropriate to the work they perform.
Electrical safety (ESA / OESC)
Low-voltage cabling and installations must meet the Ontario Electrical Safety Code and are subject to ESA inspection.
Insurance and bonding
Licensed security businesses must carry prescribed minimum insurance coverage and bonding.
How we design against it
From rule to drawing.
Partner-delivered model
Lunarlink owns design, integration, project management, and the ongoing client relationship. Any work covered by PSISA (installation, monitoring, and response) is delivered by PSISA-licensed contractor partners we engage per project. The licensed partner for your project is identified in your service agreement.
ESA-licensed low-voltage installation
Low-voltage cabling and installations follow the Ontario Electrical Safety Code, executed by ECRA/ESA-licensed partner contractors. Pathway, termination, and fire-stop conformity is documented per project.
OESC-compliant installation
All low-voltage cabling follows the Ontario Electrical Safety Code (pathway, termination, and fire-stop conformity), delivered by our ECRA/ESA-licensed partner crews.
Documented chain of custody
Who installed what, when, and under which partner's licence, all recorded in our project files for 7 years.
Common mistakes
What gets flagged on audit.
Engaging an integrator who self-performs PSISA-covered work without a licence.
Sub-contracting to unlicensed sub-trades.
No project-level record of which partner's licence covered the work, which breaks down on audit.
References
Where to read the source.
Ministry of the Solicitor General, PSISA Registry
The provincial lookup for current licences.
Electrical Safety Authority (ESA)
Regulator for electrical and low-voltage contractor authorization.
Audit-prep review.
We'll walk your existing system against Ontario PSISA and deliver a written gap analysis, so you know what the regulator would find before they do.
Request a Ontario PSISA review