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Fall Protection Regulations PEI Reg EC633/04

1 sections · eCFR current edition · official source ↗

  • PART 2 - GENERAL REQUIREMENTS1
    • 2.1Required training in use of a means of fall protection

Occupational Health and Safety Act General Regulations PEI Reg EC180/87

573 sections · eCFR current edition · official source ↗

  • PART 1 — DEFINITIONS AND APPLICATION3
    • 1.5Inspection of codes and standards
    • 1.6Waiver
    • 1.7Application of Regulations
  • PART 2 — TOILET AND WASHING FACILITIES8
    • 1.8Self-employed person
    • 2.1Application
    • 2.2Toilet facilities
    • 2.3Maintenance
    • 2.4Privacy
    • 2.5Separate facilities
    • 2.6Requirements
    • 75to 100 5
  • PART 3 — DRINKING WATER5
    • 2.8Requirements
    • 2.9Emergency eyewash and shower equipment
    • 3.1Drinking water
    • 3.2Containers
    • 3.3Cups
  • PART 4 — LUNCH ROOMS OR EATING AREAS3
    • 4.1Lunch and rest room
    • 4.2Exclusions
    • 4.3Conveyance of food
  • PART 5 — HOUSEKEEPING - GENERAL PROVISIONS3
    • 5.1General safety requirements
    • 5.2Care of tools
    • 5.3Changing room
  • PART 6 — ILLUMINATION3
    • 6.1Lighting
    • 6.2Illumination of work areas
    • 6.3Emergency lighting
  • PART 7 — TEMPORARY HEAT5
    • 7.1Storage of fuel
    • 7.2Safety requirement
    • 7.3Portable heaters
    • 7.4Fire extinguishers
    • 7.5Steam piping
  • PART 8 — NOISE8
    • 8.2Use of practicable means to reduce noise
    • 8.3Noise exposure limits
    • 115and greater 0
    • 8.4Measurement of noise level
    • 8.6Engineered noise control
    • 8.7Reduction of noise exposure, signs
    • 8.8Program - requirement
    • 8.9Hearing test
  • PART 9 — FIRST AID16
    • 8.10Records The employer shall keep records of
    • 9.1Definitions
    • 9.2Application
    • 9.3Employer responsibilities
    • 9.4Worker responsibilities
    • 9.5First aiders
    • 9.6First aid training
    • 9.7Workplace first aider training competencies
    • 9.8Vehicles and boats
    • 9.9Report of injury
    • 9.10Record of treatment
    • 9.11Employer shall determine classification of first aid kits
    • 9.12First aid supplies, requirements An employer shall ensure that all supplies required to b…
    • 9.13Posting of information
    • 9.14First aid room
    • 9.15Transitional – Basic Level First Aid Certificate
  • PART 10 — NON-IONIZING RADIATION4
    • 10.1Laser radiation The employer shall ensure that a laser or laser device is installed, oper…
    • 10.2Infra-red radiation
    • 10.3Ultra-violet radiation The employer shall ensure that workers are protected from dangerou…
    • 10.4Microwave and radio frequency radiation
  • PART 11 — VENTILATION12
    • 10.5Signs The employer shall ensure that controlled areas which allow only restricted occupan…
    • 11.1Adequate ventilation The employer shall ensure that the workplace is adequately ventilate…
    • 11.2Control systems Where practical, contaminants shall be controlled at the source by means …
    • 11.3Threshold limit values Where the air of working areas is contaminated by vapours, fumes, …
    • 11.4Maintenance The employer shall ensure that all parts of ventilation systems are maintaine…
    • 11.5Drawings, etc. The employer shall, upon request, submit drawings and specifications of th…
    • 11.6Air space requirement The employer shall ensure that every workplace contains at least 8.…
    • 11.7Means of ventilation The employer shall ensure that every workplace shall be adequately v…
    • 11.8Discharge The employer shall ensure that the discharge of air from any exhaust system is …
    • 11.9Humidity The employer shall ensure that the relative humidity in an office environment sh…
    • 11.10Temperature The employer shall ensure that, subject to section 11.11, the temperature of …
    • 11.11Exceptions The minimum temperature required by section 11.10 does not apply at a workplac…
  • PART 12 — EXCAVATIONS, TRENCHES AND CONSTRUCTION12
    • 12.1Location of utility lines
    • 12.2Shoring
    • 12.3Safety requirements before entry The employer shall ensure that workers are not allowed t…
    • 12.4Removal, etc. of shoring
    • 12.5Excavated material
    • 12.6Water
    • 12.7Lowering materials The employer shall ensure that no operator lowers material into an exc…
    • 12.8Observation requirement When work is carried on in an excavation or trench the employer s…
    • 12.9Standing under loads Workers in an excavation or trench shall not stand under any load or…
    • 12.10Wall supports The employer shall ensure that the walls and crests of an excavation or tre…
    • 12.11Warning lights and barricades
    • 12.12Illumination of materials
  • PART 13 — CONFINED SPACE6
    • 12.13Night lighting Where work is done at night, the excavation or trench shall be properly li…
    • 12.14Power shovels
    • 12.15Adjacent buildings No person shall dig an excavation that is likely to endanger a worker …
    • 13.1Defined, “confined space” In this Part, “confined space” means an enclosed or partially e…
    • 13.2Conditions for entry of confined space The employer shall ensure that a worker enters a c…
    • 13.3Hazardous confined space, conditions for entry The employer shall ensure that a confined …
  • PART 14 — BINS AND HOPPERS6
    • 13.4Confined space containing flammable vapours
    • 13.5Sentinels The employer shall ensure that when a worker enters a confined space, another w…
    • 13.6Signs The employer shall ensure that warning signs and barricades are installed to protec…
    • 13.7Prohibition A worker shall not enter a confined space unless the requirements of this Par…
    • 14.1Safety belts Revoked by EC126/21. (EC180/87;126/21)
    • 14.2Safety harness with life line Workers shall be provided with and shall wear approved safe…
  • PART 15 — ACCESS TO WORKPLACES5
    • 14.3Walks and platforms The employer shall ensure that wherever possible suitable walks or wo…
    • 14.4Sentinel
    • 14.5Exclusion Revoked by EC126/21. (EC180/87; 126/21)
    • 15.1Safe access The employer shall ensure that all places where work is performed shall have …
    • 15.2Access to construction site On construction sites the employer shall ensure that means of…
  • PART 18 — BRACING AND SUPPORTS DURING CONSTRUCTION3
    • 16.1Flooring Sections 16.1 to 16.9 revoked by EC632/04. (EC180/87;632/04)
    • 17.1Openings Sections 17.1 to 17.5 revoked by EC632/04. (EC180/87;632/04)
    • 18.1Bracing and supports The employer shall ensure that sufficient bracing and supports, eith…
  • PART 19 — FORMWORK1
  • PART 20 — FENCING AND BARRICADES1
    • 20.1Sidewalk covering
  • PART 21 — PLATFORMS, RUNWAYS AND RAMPS5
    • 20.2Covered way A covered way shall
    • 20.3Fences Where a building or other structure being constructed, altered, repaired or demoli…
    • 21.1Ramp, runway, etc. The employer shall ensure that a runway, ramp or platform other than a…
    • 21.2Requirements A runway or ramp shall be
    • 21.3Ramp A ramp shall have
  • PART 22 — STAIRS7
    • 21.4Guardrail A runway, ramp or platform other than a scaffold platform shall have a guardrai…
    • 22.1Egress stairs The employer shall ensure that when any work on a building has progressed t…
    • 22.2Temporary stairs The employer shall ensure that temporary stairs shall
    • 22.3Skeleton steel stairs The employer shall ensure that skeleton steel stairs shall have tem…
    • 22.4Permanent stairs The employer shall ensure that permanent stairs shall be installed as so…
    • 22.5Requirements The employer shall ensure stairs and landings shall be designed and construc…
    • 22.6Obligations of employer regarding stairs The employer shall ensure that
  • PART 23 — LADDERS10
    • 23.1Use of ladders
    • 23.2Specifications The user of a ladder shall ensure that
    • 23.3General obligations The user of a ladder shall
    • 23.4Wooden ladders The employer shall ensure that a wooden ladder
    • 23.5Step ladders
    • 23.6Fixed or permanent ladders The employer shall ensure that fixed or permanent ladders shal…
    • 23.7Fixed ladders
    • 23.8Extension ladders
    • 23.9Construction sites In a building or structure under construction
    • 23.10Single section ladders A single section ladder shall not exceed 9 144 mm (30 ft.). (EC180…
  • PART 25 — FIRE PROTECTION6
    • 24.1Sections 24.1 to 24.34 revoked by EC43/06. (EC180/87; 43/06)
    • 25.1Multipurpose extinguisher At least one approved 4.5 kg (10 lb.) ABC multipurpose fire ext…
    • 25.2Chemical extinguisher One or more dry chemical extinguishers with a capacity of 2.2 kg (5…
    • 25.3Freezing precautions Where fire extinguishing equipment might freeze, use of a suitable n…
    • 25.4Requirements Fire extinguishers shall be
    • 25.5Permanent standpipe Where a permanent standpipe is to be installed in a building, it shal…
  • PART 26 — EXPLOSIVES67
    • 25.6Starting fires No person shall use gasoline or highly volatile material for starting fire…
    • 25.7Other requirements This Part is in addition to, and not in substitution for the Fire Prev…
    • 26.1Obligations of employer Unless otherwise specified the employer shall ensure compliance w…
    • 26.2Procedures Where work is being carried out and explosives are to be used
    • 26.3Firing circuit Every firing circuit in connection with blasting operations shall be broke…
    • 26.4Dynamite outside magazine No greater quantity of dynamite or other high explosive than is…
    • 26.5Conveyance Explosives in excess of 22.7 kg (50 lbs.) shall not be conveyed in any vehicle…
    • 26.6Vehicles for transport Vehicles used to transport explosives shall be in good working ord…
    • 26.7Idem All metal in vehicles liable to come in contact with explosive packages shall be cov…
    • 26.8Worker precautions, etc. Workers engaged in the loading, unloading or conveying of explos…
    • 26.9Unauthorized persons Unauthorized persons shall not have access to explosives. (EC180/87)
    • 26.10Vehicle servicing Vehicles to be used for the transportation of explosives shall be fully…
    • 26.11Fire extinguisher Any vehicle carrying explosives shall be equipped with a fire extinguis…
    • 26.12Vehicles to be marked “Explosives” Any vehicle carrying explosives shall conspicuously di…
    • 26.13Prohibited vehicles Explosives shall not be conveyed in trailers nor in semi-trailers whi…
    • 26.14Railroad crossings Vehicles conveying explosives shall come to a full stop before crossin…
    • 26.15Gasoline refuelling The gasoline tank of a vehicle shall not be filled while explosives a…
    • 26.16Unattended vehicles Vehicles containing explosives shall not be left unattended. (EC180/8…
    • 26.17Storage receptacles An approved receptacle may be used to store a maximum amount of 4.5 k…
    • 26.18Location An approved receptacle shall be located in a place acceptable to the officer. It…
    • 26.19Construction An approved receptacle shall be substantially constructed of wood, copper or…
    • 26.20Separate store A maximum of 22.7 kg (50 lb.) of blasting explosives or a maximum of 22,00…
    • 26.21Location A separate store shall be apart from any dwelling house and at a safe distance f…
    • 26.22Construction Such a store shall be of substantial construction using 50 mm (2 in.) or equ…
    • 26.23Protection The store shall be provided with a substantial outwardly opening door or cover…
    • 26.24Ventilation, etc. The store shall be adequately ventilated and the interior and all fitti…
    • 26.25Interior The interior of the store shall be kept scrupulously clean. (EC180/87)
    • 26.26Water Where explosives that are liable to be affected by water are stored, precautions sh…
    • 26.27Safety No fires, lights, matches, oiled waste, iron, steel, grit or any article liable to…
    • 26.28Tools All tools or implements kept or used in a store where explosives are present, or us…
    • 26.29Store marked “Explosives” The store shall have the word “Explosives” clearly displayed on…
    • 26.30Compliance with Explosive Act Quantities of blasting explosives in excess of 22.7 kg (50 …
    • 26.31Handling Explosives and detonators shall be kept and handled separately until the last pr…
    • 26.32Containers Explosive containers shall be handled with care. (EC180/87)
    • 26.33Opening Explosive containers shall be opened within a storage area. (EC180/87)
    • 26.34Smoking Workers shall not smoke while handling explosives. (EC180/87; 126/21)
    • 26.35Capping of fuses Fuses shall not be capped or cartridges primed in any place where explos…
    • 26.36Thawing Explosives shall not be thawed near an open fire or a boiler, nor by direct conta…
    • 26.37Inspection After blasts have been fired, a thorough examination shall be made to ascertai…
    • 26.38Prohibition of drilling No drilling shall be done in any hole that has been charged or bl…
    • 26.39Idem Holes shall not be drilled within 600 mm (24 in.) of holes in which a misfire has oc…
    • 26.40Drill holes Drill holes, whether sunk by hand or machine drill, shall be of sufficient si…
    • 26.41Springing holes When springing holes, ample time shall be left for the hole to cool betwe…
    • 26.42Priming cartridges Priming cartridges shall not be slit or roughly tamped, and the wrappi…
    • 26.43Damaged fuses Damaged fuses shall not be used. (EC180/87)
    • 26.44Handling Fuses shall be handled with care so as to avoid pinching or bending sharply. (EC…
    • 26.45Safety fuses Safety fuses shall be stored for several hours at room temperature before ha…
    • 26.46Tamping Tamping rods of wood or other approved material shall be used, and all holes shal…
    • 26.47Fuses prohibited Fuses shorter than 900 mm (36 in.) shall not be used in any blasting ope…
    • 26.48Electric detonators All electrical detonators shall be tested with an approved galvanomet…
    • 26.49Blasting machines Blasting machines shall be regularly inspected and kept in good conditi…
    • 26.50Rated capacity Rated capacities of blasting machines shall not be exceeded unless in acco…
    • 26.51Firing charge from power lines When firing of a charge is done from power lines, a safety…
    • 26.52Warning procedure A worker in charge of firing explosive charges shall, before firing a c…
    • 26.53Fuse lighting A worker lighting fuses in a blasting operation shall be accompanied by ano…
    • 26.54Firing No more than 12 holes shall be fired in any round of shots by one worker, using sa…
    • 26.55Loading holes In blasting operations, holes shall not be loaded unless it is the intentio…
    • 26.56Loaded charge withdrawal No part of any loaded charge shall be tampered with or withdrawn…
    • 26.57Entry to area A worker in charge of firing explosives by electricity shall not enter or a…
    • 26.58Inspection and clearance A worker in charge of firing explosive charges shall make a thor…
    • 26.59Loose rocks Loose rocks shall be scaled off sides of excavations after blasting operation…
    • 26.60Methods of destroying Waste or deteriorated explosives of any sort shall be destroyed by …
    • 26.61Misfiring In cases where a charge misfires or is suspected of having misfired, workers sh…
    • 26.62Idem Holes in which a charge has misfired shall be marked by the insertion of a wooden ma…
    • 26.63Reblasting Misfired charges shall be reblasted. (EC180/87)
    • 26.64Radio transmitters Operating radio transmitters shall not be allowed within 45 750 mm (15…
    • 26.65Director to be informed Prior to commencement of any blasting operation the employer shal…
  • PART 27 — DEMOLITION18
    • 27.1Compliance Unless otherwise specified the employer shall ensure compliance with the regul…
    • 27.2Pre-demolition structure safety Where a structure to be demolished has suffered previous …
    • 27.3Pre-demolition procedure No person shall commence or continue to demolish a building or s…
    • 27.4Glass removal Glass shall be removed from windows and other locations in the project befo…
    • 27.5Debris piling No person shall stock or pile any material or debris in the project so as t…
    • 27.6Hoisting equipment Adequate supports, braces or shoring shall be provided for the support…
    • 27.7Scaffolding Scaffolding shall be made self supporting and be independent of that portion …
    • 27.8Egress, overhead protection Every means of egress shall be protected from falling materia…
    • 27.9Demolition procedure
    • 27.10Worker entry No worker shall enter or shall be permitted to enter any area where his safe…
    • 27.11Trusses and girders
    • 27.12Masonry
    • 27.13Safety measures No worker shall stand on top of a wall, pier or chimney to remove materia…
    • 27.14Debris removal to ground
    • 27.15Chutes A chute shall
    • 27.16Chute entrance requirements The entrance to a chute shall
    • 27.17Basement or excavation Following demolition of a structure, any basement or similar excav…
    • 27.18Application by section
  • PART 28 - EXPLOSIVE - ACTUATED TOOLS1
    • 28.1Minimum safety requirements The employer shall ensure that a powder-actuated fastening sy…
  • PART 29 — HAND TOOLS AND PORTABLE POWER TOOLS8
    • 29.1Definitions In this Part
    • 29.2Responsibilities of owner for tools The owner of a tool shall ensure that the tool (a) is…
    • 29.3Responsibilities of employer The employer shall ensure that
    • 29.4Handling The user shall use and handle tools in a safe manner. (EC180/87)
    • 29.5Responsibilities of user Without limiting the generality of the duties under section 29.4…
    • 29.6Responsibilities of employer, power tools The employer shall ensure that
    • 29.7Responsibilities of worker, power tools The worker shall
    • 29.8Prohibited activities The worker shall not
  • PART 30 — MECHANICAL SAFETY16
    • 30.1Definitions In this regulation
    • 30.2Guarding moving parts The employer shall ensure that all moving parts of machinery, equip…
    • 30.3General provisions respecting machinery
    • 30.4Starting machinery
    • 30.5Stopping machinery
    • 30.6Lock-out
    • 30.7Servicing
    • 30.8Contact with machinery
    • 30.9Safeguards
    • 30.10Removing and rendering ineffective safeguards
    • 30.11Abrasive and grinding wheels
    • 30.12Cutting or shaping machinery Where there is or may be a danger of injury to a worker’s ha…
    • 30.13Saws
    • 30.14Tumblers The employer shall ensure that the access doors in the guards or enclosures to t…
    • 30.15Agitators When the top of an open agitator, beater or paddle tank is less than 100 cm (40…
    • 30.16Conveyers
  • PART 31 — REPAIRS TO MACHINERY4
    • 30.17Walkways
    • 30.18Guards
    • 30.19Prohibitions
    • 31.1Inspection and repair The employer shall ensure that all power-operated machinery shall (…
  • PART 32 — PILE DRIVING EQUIPMENT4
    • 31.2Tire and rim Heavy duty tire and rim assemblies shall be maintained in such a manner that…
    • 31.3Electric Electric machinery shall have the source of power disconnected and locked during…
    • 31.4Tires, inflation Tires which have been removed from trucks or heavy construction equipmen…
    • 32.1Pile driving equipment The employer shall ensure that
  • PART 33 — POWERED MOBILE EQUIPMENT19
    • 33.1powered mobile equipment, defined In this Part, “powered mobile equipment” means self-pro…
    • 33.2Responsibilities of employer The employer shall ensure that powered mobile equipment: (a)…
    • 33.3Responsibilities of operators Every operator of powered mobile equipment shall: (a) inspe…
    • 33.4Protective structures The employer shall ensure that agricultural, construction, earthmov…
    • 33.5Modifications or repairs
    • 33.6Restraint equipment
    • 33.7Equipment requirements The employer shall ensure that powered mobile equipment: (a) has a…
    • 33.8Signals
    • 33.9Pedestrian traffic
    • 33.10Dust Where work is carried out in an area where dust may create a hazard to the health of…
    • 33.11Load handling attachments Buckets, forks, booms, hoists and other load handling attachmen…
    • 33.12Raised equipment The employer shall ensure that
    • 33.13Idem The employer shall ensure that any person or worker does not work under or go under …
    • 33.14Repair work Where repair or maintenance work is carried out at the point of articulation …
    • 33.15Precautions on slope, bank Where powered mobile equipment is used on a slope or bank whic…
    • 33.16Use of gears The operator of powered mobile equipment shall keep the equipment in gear wh…
    • 33.17Tire pressure
    • 33.18Truck seats
    • 33.19Loading A worker shall not remain in or on the cab of powered mobile equipment while the …
  • PART 34 — HOISTING APPARATUS9
    • 34.1hoisting apparatus, defined In this Part, “hoisting apparatus” includes an automotive lif…
    • 34.2Construction
    • 34.3Carrying capacity
    • 34.4Excess load
    • 34.5Maintenance
    • 34.6Responsibilities of employer
    • 34.7Signals
    • 34.8Riding on load
    • 34.9Mobile cranes The employer shall ensure that a mobile crane
  • PART 35 — HOISTS8
    • 34.10Stabilizers The employer shall ensure that
    • 34.11Change of location When a crane is moving from one location to another under its own powe…
    • 34.12Use of building materials The employer shall ensure that building materials shall not be …
    • 35.1“workers’ hoist”, defined In this Part “workers’ hoist” means a hoist for raising or lowe…
    • 35.2Prohibition The employer shall ensure that workers and materials shall not be transported…
    • 35.3Standards CSA Standard Z185-M87, Safety Code for Personnel Hoists is adopted and constitu…
    • 35.4“material hoist”, defined In this Part “material hoist” means a hoist for raising or lowe…
    • 35.5Standards CSA Standard Z256-M87, Safety Code for Material Hoists and subsequent amendment…
  • PART 36 — ELECTRICITY37
    • 36.1“competent”, defined
    • 36.2Worker qualifications The employer shall ensure that a worker shall not work on any energ…
    • 36.3Communication workers The employer shall ensure that when communication workers are requi…
    • 36.4Application of Electrical Inspection Act
    • 36.5Protective devices
    • 120v phase to ground to 25000 phase to phase circuits. primary zone, defined (6) In subsecti…
    • 240v; nor to work done with special tools that are designed for the purpose, and which are u…
    • 36.7De-energizing procedures The employer shall ensure that before a worker is permitted to w…
    • 36.8Idem The employer shall ensure that before a worker is permitted to work on electrical ut…
    • 36.9Re-energizing procedures After work has been completed on de-energized electrical conduct…
    • 36.10Protective guards and equipment The employer shall ensure that workers shall not work in …
    • 36.11Communication requirements The employer shall ensure that a worker shall not work on any …
    • 36.12Manhole requirements The employer shall ensure that manholes containing energized electri…
    • 36.13Water hazards The employer shall ensure that tunnels or manholes containing energized con…
    • 36.14Access to switching device The employer shall ensure that means of access to all electric…
    • 36.15Overhead protection When workers work on poles or structures where other persons may pass…
    • 36.16Poles between conductors The employer shall ensure that when setting or removing poles, l…
    • 36.17Protective measures The employer shall ensure that workers required to perform such work …
    • 36.18Lifting machines The employer shall ensure that lifting machines or devices used for sett…
    • 36.19Idem The employer shall ensure when the type of work outlined in section 36.18 is being c…
    • 36.20Distances from energized conductors The employer shall ensure that, subject to sections 3…
    • 751- 100,000 volts 3 600 mm (12 ft.)
    • 36.27Portable electrical conductors The employer shall ensure that where portable electric con…
    • 36.28Rubber covered cord The employer shall ensure that rubber covered cord shall be used for …
    • 36.29Grounding of equipment The employer shall ensure that armouring and sheathing of electric…
    • 36.30Grounding conductors The employer shall ensure that grounding conductors shall be of low …
    • 36.31Idem The employer shall ensure that grounding conductors shall be mechanically protected …
    • 36.32Prevention of accidental contact The employer shall ensure where it is impossible or impr…
    • 36.33Pole safety and stability
    • 36.34Obstructions Mail boxes, signs, clotheslines or other hazards shall not be allowed on or …
    • 36.35Access to switches The employer shall ensure that means of access to switches and meters …
    • 36.36Marking The employer shall ensure that all electrical distribution switches and controls …
    • 36.37De-energizing responsibility The employer shall ensure that before workers are required o…
    • 36.38Procedure When the control devices are not under the direct control of the workers, they …
    • 36.39Idem Before commencing the work on the de-energized part of the system, the worker shall,…
    • 36.40Live electrical conductor
    • 36.41Service switch and electrical panel The employer shall ensure that a main service switch …
  • PART 37 — WELDING23
    • 36.42Service switch lock The employer shall ensure that a service switch shall have a suitable…
    • 36.43Lighting The employer shall ensure that all areas in which workers are employed and the m…
    • 36.44Crane operation near power line The employer shall ensure that no person shall operate a …
    • 37.1Ventilation Where welding or cutting or soldering operations emit harmful fumes and gases…
    • 37.2Explosion precautions The employer shall ensure that a welding and cutting operation is p…
    • 37.3Tables The employer shall provide tables, jigs or work benches made of non-flammable mate…
    • 37.4Slag and sparks Overhead welding and cutting operations shall be carried out in such a ma…
    • 37.5Blankets Fire retardant blankets shall be placed over open gratings to contain slag and s…
    • 37.6Screens In places where welding and cutting operations are normally carried out and where…
    • 37.7Walls and screens Walls and screens of both permanent and temporary enclosures for weldin…
    • 37.8Fire extinguishing equipment The employer shall ensure that adequate fire extinguishing e…
    • 37.9Safety clothing The employer shall ensure that all workers engaged in welding or cutting …
    • 37.10Respirators Approved respirator equipment shall be worn if tests of air samples indicate …
    • 37.11Inspection of torches
    • 37.12Enclosed containers
    • 37.13Certification Where a container or pipe held an explosive or flammable substance or gas o…
    • 37.14Cleansing When the employer is unable so to certify in writing to the officer, welding or…
    • 37.15Procedure In order to drain, clean and ventilate the container or pipe, the employer shal…
    • 37.16Handling torches
    • 37.17Handling cylinders The employer shall ensure that cylinders for compressed, liquefied and…
    • 37.18Storage The employer shall ensure that cylinders containing flammable compressed gas are …
    • 37.19Compressed gas cylinders
    • 37.20Heating cylinders, prohibited The person emptying cylinders charged with liquefied gas sh…
  • PART 40 - TANKS AND VESSELS12
    • 38.1Standards Revoked by EC126/21. (EC180/87; 126/21)
    • 39.1Rescue equipment Sections 39.1 to 39.5 revoked by EC632/04. (EC180/87;632/04)
    • 40.1Open tank safety When workers are employed around open tanks containing harmful substance…
    • 40.2Prohibitions The employer shall ensure that no burning, welding or other hot work shall b…
    • 40.3Toxic fumes, precautions No worker shall enter any tank, vessel or chamber that may conta…
    • 40.4Electrical illumination and flashlights The employer shall ensure that
    • 40.5Tank supports
    • 40.6Walkways Walkways over open tanks containing harmful substances or over tanks 1 400 mm (4…
    • 40.7Closed containers Closed containers of a type acceptable to the officer shall be used for…
    • 40.8Cleaning barrels, etc. Barrels and similar vessels that have contained oil, gasoline or o…
    • 40.9Internal cleaning procedure When repairs are to be carried out inside tanks or vessels, t…
    • 40.10Mixing apparatus shut off When repairs are to be carried out in a tank or vessel in which…
  • PART 41 — FOREST OPERATIONS67
    • 40.11Cleaning procedure, tanks used for hazardous liquids The employer shall ensure that tanks…
    • 41.1Definitions In this Part
    • 41.2Instruction in operational safety The employer shall ensure, prior to the commencement of…
    • 41.3Entry to logging area No person, unless authorized by the employer or acting as a represe…
    • 41.4General obligations of employer The employer shall
    • 41.5Prohibited activities No worker shall
    • 41.6Protective equipment A worker shall
    • 41.7Mandatory use of protective equipment An employer shall require a worker to wear or use p…
    • 41.8Chain saw operation When operating a chain saw, the employer shall ensure that the worker…
    • 41.9Idem
    • 41.10Maintenance Where a chain saw is to be refuelled or maintenance work is to be performed o…
    • 41.11Fuel storage The employer shall ensure that a worker shall store and distribute fuel for …
    • 41.12Starting saw No worker shall start a chain saw unless it is at least 3 m (10 ft.) from th…
    • 41.13Fire extinguisher When operating a chain saw during the fire season, a worker shall have …
    • 41.14Pressure dressing Each chain saw operator shall carry an approved pressure dressing and b…
    • 41.15Chain saw maintenance A worker shall maintain a chain saw in a manner so that the chain w…
    • 41.16Stopping saw when carrying A worker shall stop a chain saw motor where the chain saw is t…
    • 41.17Holding saw When operating a chain saw, a worker shall hold the chain saw firmly in both …
    • 41.18Starting saw No worker shall start a chain saw while it is resting against any part of hi…
    • 41.19Tools The owner of hand tools, including files, shall equip the tools with proper handles…
    • 41.20Idem No worker shall use hand tools with loose, broken or defective handles. (EC180/87; 1…
    • 41.21Safety gloves A worker shall wear safety gloves or mitts while sharpening a chain saw. (E…
    • 41.22Area safety No worker shall enter a logging area where another worker is felling trees, u…
    • 41.23Idem Subject to section 41.22, a worker felling a tree shall maintain a distance of not l…
    • 41.24Exception Where two workers are required to fell a tree, the second may, under the superv…
    • 41.25Felling procedure A worker shall
    • 41.26Notches A worker shall make a proper notch in each tree being felled, and without limitin…
    • 41.27Obstructions The employer shall maintain every landing site clear of all chicots and any …
    • 41.28Vehicle operation The workers shall operate skidding and forwarding vehicles at a cautiou…
    • 41.29Idem An operator of a skidding and forwarding vehicle shall perform skidding and forwardi…
    • 41.30Idem When skidding or forwarding a log, no worker shall raise the log to a height that mi…
    • 41.31Riding No worker shall ride on a log being skidded. (EC180/87; 126/21)
    • 41.32Handling wire cable The worker shall wear puncture-resistant safety mitts or gloves when …
    • 41.33Cables The worker shall maintain a safe distance from a cable that is being tightened or …
    • 41.34Dumping area An employer shall provide a landing, log dump or loading area with adequate …
    • 41.35Sight lines No worker shall engage in the loading or unloading of logs unless he has an u…
    • 41.36Loading Where logs are being loaded or unloaded, a worker shall stand clear of the load, …
    • 41.37Position of worker No worker shall be in or under the path of travel of any log or materi…
    • 41.38Vacation of cab No worker shall remain in the cab of a vehicle which is not equipped with…
    • 41.39Signalman, location Where a signalman is used in the loading or unloading of logs, the si…
    • 41.40Release of cable Where a binder cable is manually released and a worker may be exposed to…
    • 41.41Log piles A worker shall maintain a log pile in a secure and stable condition. (EC180/87;…
    • 41.42Load capacity An employer shall establish the safe load capacity for a logging vehicle us…
    • 41.43Haul road An employer shall construct and maintain a haul road so as to provide for the s…
    • 41.44Ice road precautions Notwithstanding section 41.43, where a haul road is constructed on i…
    • 41.45Bridges The employer shall
    • 41.46Speed A worker shall operate a vehicle on a haul road at a speed in which the vehicle can…
    • 41.47Loading A worker responsible for loading a logging vehicle shall
    • 41.48Guards A worker shall equip a vehicle or machine used for logging with adequate guards to…
    • 41.49Brakes A driver of a vehicle used in logging shall ensure that the brakes of the logging …
    • 41.50Bulkheads The owner of a vehicle used to haul logs shall equip the vehicle with a bulkhea…
    • 41.51Passengers Except in the case of an emergency, the driver of a vehicle used for hauling l…
    • 41.52No riding on load No worker shall ride on the load of a vehicle used for hauling logs. (E…
    • 41.53Securing binder cables A driver of a vehicle used for hauling logs shall
    • 41.54Trailer deck clearance A driver of a vehicle used for handling logs shall clear the decks…
    • 41.55Stakes An employer shall provide stakes which support loads on logging vehicles that are …
    • 41.56Transporting workers An employer shall allow a worker to drive a vehicle used to transpor…
    • 41.57Safety requirements re transportation An employer shall ensure, where workers are being t…
    • 41.58Qualified operators only The employer shall ensure that only a qualified worker, as autho…
    • 41.59Riding A worker shall not ride on a vehicle used in logging except in the seat provided f…
    • 41.60Inspection The owner of the vehicle used in logging shall
    • 41.61Maintenance Where a dump box, bulldozer blade or any other mechanically operated attachme…
    • 41.62Canopy The owner of mobile equipment used in a logging operation shall equip the vehicle …
    • 41.63Skidding equipment The owner of skidding equipment shall provide the equipment with suffi…
    • 41.64Screens An employer shall equip all logging machinery with screens or other protective de…
    • 41.65General safety precautions The operator of a logging vehicle shall ensure that
    • 41.66Choker cables All choker cables, twitching chains or dogs shall be released and pulled aw…
  • PART 42 — EXTREMES OF TEMPERATURE2
    • 41.67Choker men Choker men or workers handling wire cables shall wear mitts or gloves of leath…
    • 42.1Standards Permissible heat and cold exposure shall conform to Threshold Limit Values (TLV…
  • PART 43 — HANDLING & STORAGE OF MATERIALS MATERIALS4
    • 43.1Temporary storage structure The employer shall ensure that a temporary storage structure …
    • 43.2Loading limits The employer shall ensure that building materials or equipment shall not b…
    • 43.3Storage prohibitions The employer shall ensure that no building material shall be stored,…
    • 43.4Piling of materials
  • PART 43 — HANDLING & STORAGE OF MATERIALS30
    • 43.5Masonry units The employer shall ensure that masonry units shall be stacked
    • 43.6Steel and pipe Reinforcing steel and pipe shall be stacked in substantially supported and…
    • 43.7Other materials The employer shall ensure that other materials to be used on the project …
    • 43.8Handling materials The employer shall ensure that
    • 43.9Hazardous liquid storage The employer shall ensure that tanks used for storing non-flamma…
    • 43.10Low temperature protection Where necessary, above ground tanks used for storing non-flamm…
    • 43.11Tanks Tanks used for storing non-flammable hazardous liquids shall not be placed above pa…
    • 43.12Pits Where tanks used for storing non-flammable hazardous liquids are installed in pits b…
    • 43.13Control valves All control valves for sunken tanks used for storing non-flammable hazardo…
    • 43.14Tank location requirements Tanks used for storing non-flammable hazardous liquids shall b…
    • 43.15Caustic liquid tanks Tanks used for storing corrosive or caustic liquids shall be provide…
    • 43.16Connections Tanks used for storing corrosive or caustic liquids shall have the filling co…
    • 43.17Storerooms for flammable liquids Where barrels or drums containing flammable liquids are …
    • 43.18Waterproof floors The floor of the storeroom or house shall be waterproof, with the water…
    • 43.19Acid drums Drums containing acids shall be stored in cool places with the bung up; they s…
    • 43.20Empty barrels Empty barrels or drums which have contained flammable liquids shall be stor…
    • 43.21Cleaning Empty barrels or drums which have contained acids or other non-flammable liquids…
    • 43.22Idem Barrels or drums which have contained hazardous non-flammable liquids, if to be re-u…
    • 43.23Steaming Barrels or drums used for flammable liquids shall be steamed before being crushe…
    • 43.24Cleaning procedure Drums and barrels used for hazardous liquids, and intended for further…
    • 43.25Carboys
    • 43.26Idem Such carboys shall not be subjected to dampness, extreme heat or sudden changes in t…
    • 43.27Transportation Special handling equipment, such as two-wheeled carboy trucks, shall be pr…
    • 43.28Emptying Adequate equipment shall be provided and used for emptying of such carboys. (EC1…
    • 43.29Storage Empty acid carboys shall be stored apart from filled carboys. (EC180/87)
    • 43.30Inspection Carboys together with their baskets or boxes shall be examined as to their con…
    • 43.31Emergency washing facilities Where caustic or acids are stored, handled or used in such a…
    • 43.32Storage bins The employer shall ensure that dry bulk materials are in bins which will per…
    • 43.33Lifebelts Where it is necessary for workers to enter bins used for storing dry bulk mater…
    • 43.34Entry precautions Workers shall not be permitted to enter bins used for storing dry bulk …
  • PART 44 — STORAGE BATTERY ROOMS4
    • 43.35Access Bins used for storing dry bulk material shall be provided, on the outside, with st…
    • 43.36Construction Bins used for storing highly combustible dry materials shall be of fire-resi…
    • 43.37Piling Where dry bulk material is piled and removed manually undermining of piles shall n…
    • 44.1Charging batteries
  • PART 45 - PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT26
    • 44.2Safety equipment The employer shall provide and shall instruct the worker to wear acid re…
    • 44.3Idem The worker shall wear acid resistant gloves, aprons, and goggles or face shields and…
    • 44.4Procedures The worker shall
    • 45.01Definitions In this Part,
    • 45.1Wearing apparel The employer shall ensure that the personal wearing apparel of a worker s…
    • 45.2Maintenance The employer shall ensure that personal protective equipment is maintained in…
    • 45.3Instruction Every employer shall ensure that every worker who is required to use personal…
    • 45.4Testing A worker wearing or using personal protective equipment shall test the equipment …
    • 45.4.1Flotation device, when required
    • 45.4.2Maintenance Where inflatable lifejackets or personal flotation devices are used, the empl…
    • 45.5Standard head protection The employer shall ensure that a worker on a worksite or at any …
    • 45.6Chin straps Chin straps or other effective means of ensuring retention of safety headgear…
    • 45.7Standard eye protection The employer shall ensure that a worker exposed to a hazard which…
    • 45.8Obligation of employer The employer shall ensure that a worker who has 20/200 vision in e…
    • 45.9Contact lenses When a worker intends to wear contact lenses at his place of employment, h…
    • 45.10Idem The employer shall ensure that no worker shall wear contact lenses where
    • 45.11Idem A worker shall not wear contact lenses while welding. (EC180/87; 126/21)
    • 45.12Approved Revoked by EC652/07. (EC180/87; 652/07)
    • 45.13Hands The employer shall ensure that all persons handling materials likely to puncture, a…
    • 45.14Handling acids, etc. The employer shall ensure that workers handling or using acids, caus…
    • 45.15Footwear The employer shall ensure that a worker on a worksite or at any place of employm…
    • 45.16Defective footwear
    • 45.17Hazardous air
    • 45.18Selection, use, care of respirators
    • 45.19Shaving Every employer shall ensure that workers required to use a respirator shall be cl…
    • 45.20Signs
  • PART 46 — CHAINS, SLINGS AND WIRE ROPE17
    • 45.21Safety equipment Revoked by EC632/04. (EC180/87;632/04)
    • 45.22Fall protection system Sections 45.22 and 45.23 revoked by EC632/04. (EC180/87;632/04) PA…
    • 46.1Specifications The employer shall ensure that chains, slings and wire ropes meet the foll…
    • 46.2Wire rope Wire rope for hoisting, lowering or hauling loads shall be of proper constructi…
    • 46.3Safety factor The factor of safety for wire rope shall be at least six. (EC180/87)
    • 46.4Loads Eye splices, sockets and rope anchorages subjected to a direct tensile load shall b…
    • 46.5Thimbles Eye splices and loops for the attachment of hooks, rings and other parts to wire…
    • 46.6Replacement of wire rope Wire rope shall be removed from service whenever its strength is…
    • 46.7Marking The size, material and the maximum safe working load shall be marked on all wire …
    • 46.8Kinks Wire ropes used for hoisting, lowering or hauling loads shall be free from kinks an…
    • 46.9Ends Ends of wire rope shall be seized to prevent the strands from becoming loose. (EC180…
    • 46.10Fastenings Fastenings of wire ropes shall be carefully examined at regular intervals, and…
    • 46.11Dangerous conditions When there is the least sign of a dangerous condition at sockets or …
    • 46.12Splices A thimble or loop splice made in any wire rope shall have at least three tucks wi…
    • 46.13Lubricants Wire ropes shall be treated at regular intervals with suitable lubricants. (EC…
    • 46.14Fibre rope Fibre rope for hoisting, lowering or hauling loads shall be of high grade hemp…
    • 46.15Safety factor Fibre rope shall have a factor of safety of ten. (EC180/87)
  • PART 47 - WORK IN COMPRESSED AIR ENVIRONMENT4
    • 46.16Tags All fibre ropes used for hoisting shall bear a metal tag on which is stamped a numbe…
    • 46.17Ends Fibre rope shall be seized on the ends to prevent fraying. (EC180/87)
    • 46.18Splices Eye splices on fibre rope shall be made around suitable thimbles. (EC180/87) PART…
    • 47.1Standard The employer shall ensure that work in a compressed air environment is conducted…
  • PART 48 - UNDERWATER DIVING OPERATIONS1
    • 48.1Underwater diving operations The employer shall ensure that all underwater diving operati…
  • PART 49 - ASBESTOS26
    • 49.1Definitions
    • 49.2Application This Part applies to every workplace where asbestos is present. (EC147/20) PR…
    • 49.3Asbestos in workplace
    • 49.4Sampling of asbestos-containing material
    • 49.5Inventory
    • 49.6Management plan An employer or owner of a workplace shall ensure that an asbestos managem…
    • 49.5from becoming airborne in the workplace, and
    • 49.7Monitoring exposure levels
    • 49.8Exposure limits
    • 49.9Asbestos contractor’s certificate
    • 49.10Requirements before commencing work
    • 49.11Suspension or cancellation
    • 49.12Product analysis
    • 49.13Protective clothing
    • 49.14Respiratory protection
    • 49.15Asbestos work area, boundaries
    • 49.16Sealants
    • 49.17General
    • 49.18Enclosure entry
    • 49.19Worker exit decontamination procedure After a worker completes asbestos work in a contami…
    • 49.20General
    • 49.21Vacuum cleaner An asbestos contractor shall provide a vacuum system with HEPA filtration …
    • 49.22Mode of removal
    • 49.23Demolition An employer shall ensure that materials with the potential of releasing asbest…
    • 49.24Emergency response An asbestos contractor shall develop emergency response procedures to …
    • 49.25Program
  • PART 50 — TRAFFIC CONTROL21
    • 49.26Worker record
    • 50.1Definitions In this Part
    • 50.2Employer responsibilities The employer shall ensure
    • 50.3Idem The employer shall ensure signallers are employed
    • 50.4Qualifications The employer shall ensure that signallers
    • 50.5Use of worker as signaller The use of a worker as a signaller if the worker does not poss…
    • 50.6Equipment The employer shall ensure that a signaller is equipped with such protective hea…
    • 50.7Use of equipment The signaller shall wear such protective health and safety equipment and…
    • 50.8Head set receivers
    • 50.9Sign The employer shall provide signallers with a signaller’s sign, octagonal in shape an…
    • 50.10Reflectors The employer shall ensure that, when signalling operations are required during…
    • 50.11Flashlight The employer shall, during the hours of darkness provide the signaller with a …
    • 50.12Visibility The employer shall ensure that a signaller is located in a position providing …
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    • 90110
    • 50.14Radio contact The employer shall ensure when the end of a one-lane section of roadway is …
    • 50.15Approved modes of signalling The following are the approved modes of signalling: (a) to s…
    • 50.16Continuous duty The employer shall ensure that signallers do not depart from their point …
    • 50.17Signs posted The employer shall ensure that “Signaller Ahead” signs shall be posted in ad…
    • 50.18Compliance
    • 50.19Authority These regulations and the Traffic Control Procedures for Roadwork Manual and an…
  • PART 51 — GENERAL3
    • 51.1Accident reports The Workers’ Compensation Board shall forward a copy of all accident rep…
    • 51.2Report of explosions A written report of all accidental explosions, whether or not anyone…
    • 51.3Application Revoked by EC632/04. (EC180/87;632/04)
  • PART 52 — VIOLENCE IN THE WORKPLACE3
    • 52.1“violence”, defined In this Part, “violence” means the threatened, attempted or actual ex…
    • 52.2Risk assessment of workplace
    • 52.3Risk identified If a risk of injury to a worker from violence in a workplace is identifie…
  • PART 53 — WORKING ALONE7
    • 52.4Inform workers of risk
    • 52.5Consult physician An employer shall ensure that a worker who reports an injury or adverse…
    • 53.1“working alone”, defined In this Part, “working alone” means a worker working at a workpl…
    • 53.2Procedure where worker is working alone
    • 53.3Employer, worker to comply The employer and the worker who is working alone shall comply …
    • 53.4Training program The employer shall implement a training program in respect of the proced…
    • 53.5Copy of procedures available to officer The employer shall ensure that a copy of the proc…
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