Canada Gazette, Part I, Volume 155, Number 30: Canada–Nova Scotia Offshore Occupational Health and Safety Regulations

July 24, 2021

Statutory authority
Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Resources Accord Implementation Act

Sponsoring departments
Department of Natural Resources
Department of Employment and Social Development
Department of Transport

REGULATORY IMPACT ANALYSIS STATEMENT

For the Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement, see the Canada–Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Occupational Health and Safety Regulations.

PROPOSED REGULATORY TEXT

Notice is given, pursuant to subsection 210.127(1)footnote a of the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Resources Accord Implementation Actfootnote b, that the Administrator in Council, pursuant to paragraph 210.001(3)(a)footnote a and section 210.126footnote a of that Act, proposes to make the annexed Canada–Nova Scotia Offshore Occupational Health and Safety Regulations.

Interested persons may make representations concerning the proposed Regulations within 30 days after the date of publication of this notice. All such representations must cite the Canada Gazette, Part I, and the date of publication of this notice, and be addressed to Kim Phillips, Senior Regulatory Officer, Offshore Petroleum Management Division, Department of Natural Resources (email: kim.phillips@canada.ca).

Ottawa, July 8, 2021

Julie Adair
Assistant Clerk of the Privy Council

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Canada–Nova Scotia Offshore Occupational Health and Safety Regulations

PART 1

General

1 Definitions

2 Incorporation by reference

3 Inconsistency or conflict

PART 2

Occupational Health and Safety Management and Oversight

4 Occupational health and safety policy

5 Occupational health and safety management system

6 Occupational health and safety program

7 Workplace committee

8 Record keeping

9 Posting of documents

PART 3

Reporting and Investigation

10 Report to supervisor or employer

11 Report to employer with control

12 Employer obligations

13 Notification of Chief Safety Officer

14 Investigation

PART 4

Training — General

15 Provision of general training

16 Competent person

17 Records

PART 5

Emergency Response and Preparedness

18 Emergency response plan

19 Posting of information

20 Instruction and training

21 Means of evacuation

22 Emergency equipment

23 Emergency alert system

24 Emergency electrical power

25 Emergency descent control

26 Fire and explosion

27 Firefighting equipment

28 Fire team equipment

29 Falls into ocean

30 Emergency drills and exercises

PART 6

First Aid and Medical Care

31 Operator's obligations

32 Employer obligations

33 Medics

34 First aiders

35 Treatment records

PART 7

Employee Well-being

36 Occupational health and safety program

37 Impairment

38 Fatigue training

39 Rest periods

40 Thermal stress

41 Musculoskeletal injury

42 Workplace violence and harassment

43 Disruptive behaviour

PART 8

Personal Protective Equipment

44 Employee obligations

45 Requirements

46 Prescribed equipment

47 Respiratory protective equipment

48 Personal gas monitoring device

49 Records

PART 9

Passengers in Transit

50 Transit by helicopter

51 Transit by vessel

52 Safe entry and exit

PART 10

Work Permits

53 Contents

54 Occupational health and safety program

55 Employer obligations

PART 11

Facilities

56 Application

57 Accommodations area

58 Washrooms

59 Portable toilet units

60 Handwashing facilities

61 Showers

62 Changing facilities

63 Sleeping quarters

64 Dining area

65 Smoking areas

PART 12

Sanitation and Housekeeping

66 Waste material

67 Pests

68 Cleanliness and orderliness

69 Storage

PART 13

Food and Drinking Water

70 Food safety

71 Potable water

PART 14

Lighting

72 Non-application

73 Minimum levels

74 Emergency lighting

75 Handling, storage and disposal

PART 15

Sound Levels

76 Unimpeded communication

77 Noise

PART 16

Ventilation

78 Air quality

79 Ventilation system

80 Internal combustion engine

PART 17

Pressure Equipment

81 Definitions

82 Inspection

83 Records

PART 18

Structural Safety

84 Movement within workplace

85 Doors

86 Guard-rails

87 Wall and floor openings and open edges

88 Open-top enclosures

89 Structural openings

PART 19

Equipment, Machines and Devices

90 Requirements

91 Removal from service

92 Hair, clothing and accessories

93 Pedestrian passage

94 Standards

95 Fuelling

PART 20

Elevators and Personnel Lifts

96 Standards

97 Elevator documentation

PART 21

Ladders, Stairs and Ramps

98 Application

99 Ship's ladder

100 Requirement to install

101 Stairs, ramps and fixed ladders

102 Temporary stairs

103 Ramps

104 Fixed ladders

105 Portable ladders

PART 22

Scaffolding and Platforms

106 Definition of elevating work platform

107 Use — general

108 Prevention of contact

109 Scaffolds

110 Elevating work platforms

PART 23

Fall Protection and Rope Access

111 Risk of falling

112 Means of protection

113 Rope access

114 Work permit

115 Instruction and training

PART 24

Falling Objects

116 Risk of injury

PART 25

Materials Handling

117 Definitions

118 Lifting risks

119 Work permit

120 Prohibitions

121 Hazardous conditions

122 Manual handling

123 Rated capacity

124 Materials handling equipment

125 Cranes and hoists

126 Wire rope clips

127 Mobile equipment

128 Additional standards

129 Personnel transfer

130 Signalling

131 Inspection

132 Instruction and training

PART 26

Confined Spaces

133 Evaluation

134 Occupational health and safety program

135 Work permits

136 Entry and occupation requirements

137 Atmosphere

138 Attendants

139 Instruction and training

140 Completion of work

PART 27

Hot Work

141 Risks

142 Work permit

143 Requirements

PART 28

Hazardous Energy

144 Definitions

145 Occupational health and safety program

146 Work permit

147 Employer obligations

148 Approach boundaries

PART 29

Compressed Gas

149 Hose lines

150 Compressed gas cylinders

151 Portable compressed gas cylinders

PART 30

Abrasive Blasting and High-Pressure Washing

152 Definition of enclosure

153 Employer obligations

PART 31

Explosives

154 Definition of activity involving an explosive

155 Occupational health and safety program

156 Work permit

157 Employer obligations

PART 32

Hazardous Substances

158 Definitions

159 Occupational health and safety program

160 Investigation and assessment

161 Employer obligations

162 Identification

163 Hazardous products — labelling

164 Hazardous products — safety data sheets

165 Exemption from requirement to disclose

166 Instruction and training

167 Information required in emergency

PART 33

Diving

168 Definitions

169 Occupational health and safety program

170 Prohibitions

171 Instruction

172 Dive safety specialists

173 Emergency response plan

174 Emergency drills and exercises

175 Dive project plan

176 Dive contractor obligations

177 Diving record

PART 34

Coming into Force

178 January 1, 2022

SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULE 2

Canada–Nova Scotia Offshore Occupational Health and Safety Regulations

PART 1

General

Definitions

1 (1) The following definitions apply in these Regulations.

accommodations area
means the area of a marine installation or structure that contains the sleeping quarters, dining areas, food preparation areas, general recreation areas, office areas and medical rooms, and includes all washrooms in that area. (aire d'habitation)
Act
means the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Resources Accord Implementation Act. (Loi)
advanced first aid certificate
means a certificate evidencing the holder's successful completion of a training program whose curriculum conforms to the curriculum for advanced first aid set out in CSA Group standard Z1210, First aid training for the workplace – Curriculum and quality management for training agencies, or, in the case of marine crew on a vessel, whose curriculum conforms to Chapter 4 of Department of Transport publication TP 13008, Training Standards for Marine First Aid and Marine Medical Care. (certificat en secourisme avancé)
ANSI
means the American National Standards Institute. (ANSI)
ASME
means the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. (ASME)
competent person
means a person who, in respect of a task,
  • (a) has the knowledge, training and experience necessary to do the task in a manner that protects the health and safety of all persons at the workplace; and
  • (b) has knowledge of the provisions of the Act, these Regulations and the occupational health and safety program referred to in section 210.02 of the Act that apply to the task and of the potential or actual danger that the task poses to the health or safety of persons. (personne compétente)
confined space
means an enclosed or partially enclosed space that
  • (a) is not designed or intended for human occupancy except on a temporary basis for the purpose of performing a specific task;
  • (b) is or may become hazardous to a person in it, including by reason of its design, construction, location or atmosphere or the materials or substances it contains, without regard to any protection that may be afforded to the person through the use of personal protective equipment or additional ventilation; and
  • (c) has restricted means of access and egress, or an internal configuration, that could make first aid, evacuation, rescue or other emergency response services difficult to provide. (espace clos)
de-energized,
in respect of equipment, a machine, a device, a system or a component of any of those things, means that it is disconnected from all energy sources and void of any residual or stored energy. (hors tension)
dive project
means any work or activity for which an authorization to dive has been issued. (projet de plongée)
electrical equipment
means equipment that uses electricity or that is used for the generation or distribution of electricity. (équipement électrique)
energized,
in respect of an electrical conductor, a circuit part or electrical equipment, means that it is a source of voltage or is electrically connected to a source of voltage. (Version anglaise seulement)
energy
includes electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, chemical, radiant, thermal and gravitational energy. (énergie)
energy-isolating device
means a device that physically prevents the transmission or release of energy or a substance that is a source of energy, including
  • (a) a manually operated electrical circuit breaker;
  • (b) a disconnect switch;
  • (c) a manually operated switch by which the conductors of a circuit can be disconnected from all ungrounded supply conductors;
  • (d) a valve; or
  • (e) a blind, blank or blocking seal. (dispositif d'isolation des sources d'énergie)
environmental conditions
means meteorological, oceanographical and other natural conditions, including ice conditions, that may affect operations at a workplace. (conditions environnementales)
first aider
means a person, other than a medic designated under paragraph 32(1)(f), who holds a valid standard first aid certificate or advanced first aid certificate or who meets the requirements referred to in subsection 33(1). (secouriste)
hazard information,
in respect of a hazardous substance, means information respecting the health and physical hazards posed by the substance and respecting its proper and safe storage, handling, use and disposal. (renseignements sur les risques)
high-pressure washing
means the use of water or other liquid delivered from a pump at a pressure exceeding 10 MPa, with or without the addition of solid particles, to remove unwanted matter from a surface. (lavage sous haute pression)
hot work
means any work or activity, other than the use of explosives, that involves the use of or is likely to produce fire, sparks or another source of ignition. (travail à chaud)
IMO Resolution MSC.81(70)
means the annex to International Maritime Organization Resolution MSC.81(70), Revised Recommendation on Testing of Life-Saving Appliances. (résolution MSC.81(70) de l'OMI)
lockout
means the securing, in accordance with the procedures referred to in paragraph 145(b), of a lockout device on an energy-isolating device that is being used to isolate the energy source of a piece of equipment, machine, device or system. (cadenassage)
lockout device
means a device that prevents the manipulation or removal of an energy-isolating device. (dispositif de cadenassage)
LSA Code
means the annex to International Maritime Organization Resolution MSC.48(66), International Life-Saving Appliance (LSA) Code. (recueil LSA)
materials handling equipment
means equipment, other than an elevator or personnel lift, that is used to transport, lift, move or position things or persons and includes gear and devices used in conjunction with other equipment in carrying out those functions. (équipement de manutention)
mobile equipment
means wheeled or tracked materials handling equipment that is engine- or motor-powered,together with any attached or towed equipment. (équipement mobile)
piping system
means an assembly of pipes, pipe fittings, valves or other control or safety devices, pumps, compressors and other fixed equipment. (réseau de canalisations)
professional engineer
means a competent person who is registered or licensed to engage in the practice of engineering under the laws of the province in which they practise. (ingénieur)
rated capacity
means the maximum load that equipment can handle or support safely, including, if applicable, in a given operational position or configuration, without regard to environmental conditions. (capacité nominale)
safety data sheet
has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Hazardous Products Act. (fiche de données de sécurité)
specialized dive physician
means a physician who is licensed to practise medicine in Canada and meets the competencies of a Level 3 Physician set out in CSA Group standard Z275.4, Competency standard for diving, hyperbaric chamber, and remotely operated vehicle operations. (médecin de plongée spécialisé)
standard first aid certificate
means a certificate evidencing the holder's successful completion of a training program whose curriculum conforms to the curriculum for intermediate first aid set out in CSA Group stan-dard Z1210, First aid training for the workplace – Curriculum and quality management for training agencies or, in the case of marine crew on a vessel, whose curriculum conforms to Chapter 3 of Department of Transport publication TP 13008, Training Standards for Marine First Aid and Marine Medical Care. (certificat en secourisme général)
threshold limit value
means the threshold limit value established for a substance or agent by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists in its publication TLVs and BEIs: Based on the Documentation of the Threshold Limit Values for Chemical Substances and Physical Agents & Biological Exposure Indices. (valeur limite d'exposition)
work area
means the specific area in which an employee carries out their tasks. (espace de travail)
work permit
means a permit referred to in section 53. (permis de travail)

Definitions under Part III.1 of Act

(2) The following definitions apply for the purposes of Part III.1 of the Act.

dive site,
in relation to a diving operation that is carried out from a light diving craft, means that craft jointly with the primary vessel from which it is deployed. (lieu de plongée)
diving operation
means any work or activity associated with a dive that takes place from the start of pressurization or descent for the dive to the end of depressurization or ascent, including any work or activity involving a diver or carried out by a person assisting a diver. (opération de plongée)
incident
means an event that resulted in any of the following occurrences or in which any of the following occurrences was narrowly avoided:
  • (a) death;
  • (b) serious injury within the meaning of subsection 210.017(5) of the Act;
  • (c) missing person;
  • (d) fire or explosion;
  • (e) collision;
  • (f) exposure to a hazardous substance in excess of the threshold limit value or biological exposure index for that substance;
  • (g) impairment of any structure, facility, equipment or system critical to the safety of persons;
  • (h) implementation of emergency response procedures. (événement)

Incorporation by reference

2 (1) In these Regulations, any incorporation by reference of a document is an incorporation by reference of that document as amended from time to time.

Bilingual documents

(2) Despite subsection (1), if a document that is incorporated by reference is available in both official languages, any amendment to it is incorporated only when the amended version is available in both official languages.

Inconsistency or conflict

3 In the event of inconsistency or conflict among provisions of these Regulations, including those that incorporate documents by reference, the provision that imposes the most stringent requirement applies.

PART 2

Occupational Health and Safety Management and Oversight

Occupational health and safety policy

4 The occupational health and safety policy referred to in section 210.011 of the Act must contain

Occupational health and safety management system

5 (1) The occupational health and safety management system referred to in section 210.015 of the Act must set out procedures for

Auditing

(2) The audit referred to in paragraph 210.015(2)(g) of the Act must be carried out at as soon as practicable after either of the following occurrences and, in any event, at least once every three years:

Improvements

(3) The operator must implement any improvements identified during the audit referred to in paragraph 210.015(2)(g) of the Act as soon as practicable.

Occupational health and safety program

6 (1) The occupational health and safety program referred to in section 210.02 of the Act must

Auditing

(2) The audit referred to in paragraph 210.02(2)(h) of the Act must be carried out at as soon as practicable after any of the following occurrences and, in any event, at least once every three years:

Improvements

(3) The employer must implement any improvements identified during the audit referred to in paragraph 210.02(2)(h) of the Act as soon as practicable.

Workplace committee

7 (1) A workplace committee that establishes rules of procedure must include among them

Minutes

(2) Every workplace committee must, for the purpose of paragraph 210.043(4)(d) of the Act, provide a copy of the minutes of its committee meetings to any employee on request.

Record keeping

8 All records that are required under the Act to be kept must be maintained in a manner that ensures their accessibility.

Posting of documents

9 (1) The period for which an operator or employer, as the case may be, must ensure that a document is posted under paragraph 210.098(4)(a) of the Act is at least 45 days.

Appeal

(2) If a decision or order is appealed under subsection 210.101(1) of the Act, the operator or employer, as the case may be, must ensure that all related documents referred to in paragraphs 210.098(1)(a) to (d) of the Act remain posted until the 45th day after the day on which the decision or order is revoked, confirmed or varied under subsection 210.101(9) of the Act.

PART 3

Reporting and Investigation

Report to supervisor or employer

10 An employee who becomes aware of an occupational disease or an accident, incident or other hazardous occurrence at the workplace must, without delay, report it to their supervisor or their employer, orally or in writing.

Report to employer with control

11 A supervisor to whom or employer to which — if that employer does not have control over the workplace — an occupational disease, accident, incident or other hazardous occurrence is reported under section 10 must, without delay, report it to the employer with control over the workplace, orally or in writing.

Employer obligations

12 An employer that becomes aware of an occupational disease or an accident, incident or other hazardous occurrence at a workplace under its control must, without delay,

Notification of Chief Safety Officer

13 An operator that is required under subsection 210.017(1) of the Act to notify the Chief Safety Officer of an occupational disease, accident, incident or other hazardous occurrence must do so in writing.

Investigation

14 (1) An operator that is required, under subsection 210.017(2) of the Act, to investigate an occupational disease, accident, incident or other hazardous occurrence must obtain, within 14 days after the day on which it becomes known to the operator, a report, prepared by a competent person and accompanied by supporting documentation, that sets out, in respect of the disease, accident, incident or other occurrence and to a level of detail that is proportional to its actual or potential severity,

Report

(2) The operator must submit a copy of the report and supporting documentation without delay to

Material change

(3) If the operator becomes aware of new information that may result in a material change to the report, the operator must obtain an updated report and supporting documentation and submit a copy without delay to the persons referred to in paragraphs (2)(a) and (b).

Records

(4) For the purpose of subsection 210.017(2) of the Act,

PART 4

Training — General

Provision of general training

15 The training that every employer must provide to each of its employees includes

Competent person

16 Every employer must ensure that all instruction and training that it is required to provide under the Act is developed by and, if applicable, delivered by a competent person.

Records

17 Every employer must retain records of all instruction and training provided under the Act for

PART 5

Emergency Response and Preparedness

Emergency response plan

18 (1) Every employer must, having regard to the risk assessment carried out by it for the purposes of its occupational health and safety program referred to in section 210.02 of the Act, develop, implement and maintain a written emergency response plan for each workplace under its control that is a marine installation or structure in preparation for any reasonably foreseeable emergency that might compromise the health and safety of persons at that workplace or at any other workplace under its control that is a workboat or dive site associated with that marine installation or structure.

Contents of plan

(2) The emergency response plan must

Availability of plan

(3) The employer must ensure that a copy of the emergency response plan is made readily available to all employees at the workplace.

Multiple employers

(4) If an employer has employees at a workplace not under its control, it must ensure that those employees comply with

Posting of information

19 Every employer must ensure that the following items are posted in the specified locations, separately from the emergency response plan, at each workplace under its control that is a marine installation or structure:

Instruction and training

20 The instruction and training that every employer must provide to each of its employees includes

Means of evacuation

21 Every employer must ensure, with respect to each workplace under its control that is a marine installation or structure, that

Emergency equipment

22 (1) Every employer must ensure that the location of all equipment to be used or worn in implementing emergency response procedures at each workplace under its control is clearly identified with light-reflecting or illuminated signs.

Grab bags

(2) Every employer must provide, in all sleeping quarters at a workplace under its control, a readily available grab bag for each person assigned to the sleeping quarters containing a smoke hood, heat-resistant gloves and a portable light source to enable the person to reach muster stations, temporary refuge areas and evacuation stations in conditions of fire, intense heat or smoke.

Emergency escape breathing devices or respirators

(3) Every employer must ensure that the emergency escape breathing devices or respirators that it provides in accordance with paragraph 46(a) are provided in appropriate quantities and locations at the workplace to facilitate escape, having regard to

Immersion suits

(4) Every employer must ensure that the immersion suits that it provides in accordance with paragraph 46(b) are provided in appropriate quantities, sizes and locations to facilitate abandonment, having regard to

Minimum number required

(5) Despite subsection (4), the employer must provide the following minimum number of immersion suits:

Emergency alert system

23 Every employer must ensure that each workplace under its control that is a marine installation or structure is equipped with a public address and alarm system that is audible or visible, as the case may be, in all areas of the workplace where a person may be present and is to be used to warn persons if

Emergency electrical power

24 Every employer must ensure that each workplace under its control that is a marine installation or structure is equipped with a secondary electrical power supply that is sufficient to operate the following to the degree necessary to allow for safe occupancy of or egress from the workplace in the case of a failure of the main power system:

Emergency descent control

25 (1) Every employer must provide, on each derrick or other elevated part of a workplace under its control that is a marine installation or structure, if there is only one other means of escape from that location, a device that would allow a person to descend from the location at a controlled speed in an emergency.

Loss of power

(2) The device must be capable of being operated despite the loss of the main source of power.

Instructions

(3) The employer must ensure that written instructions for operating the device are kept in a conspicuous place near the location where the device is stored.

Fire and explosion

26 (1) Fire and explosion are prescribed risks for the purpose of paragraph 210.02(2)(a) of the Act and every employer must ensure that each workplace under its control is designed, constructed, arranged and maintained to minimize those risks.

Hazardous areas

(2) The occupational health and safety program referred to in section 210.02 of the Act in respect of a workplace that is a marine installation or structure must identify

Signage

(3) The employer with control over the workplace must ensure that signs are posted in conspicuous places at each of the areas referred to in subsection (2), identifying them as areas in which there is a risk of fire or explosion.

Prohibition

(4) The employer must ensure that no person uses an open flame or other source of ignition in an area referred to in subsection (2) unless they are carrying out hot work in accordance with Part 27.

Temporary or portable heating equipment

(5) Every employer must ensure that any temporary or portable heating equipment that is used at a workplace under its control is located, protected and used in a manner that prevents it from being overturned or damaged and any combustible materials in the vicinity from igniting.

Firefighting equipment

27 Every employer must equip each workplace under its control with the firefighting equipment that is appropriate for the type of workplace and all classes of fire that may occur there.

Fire team equipment

28 (1) The personal protective equipment that every employer with control over a workplace that is a marine installation or structure must provide to each of its employees, and any other individual at the workplace, who is tasked with fighting fires includes

Other equipment

(2) The employer must also provide,

Alternative equipment

(3) Despite subsection (1) and paragraph (2)(a), if a workplace is a ship used for construction or diving or for geotechnical or seismic work, the employer may instead provide fire-fighter's outfits that conform to the International Maritime Organization's International Code for Fire Safety Systems.

Quantity

(4) The number of sets of equipment referred to in subsections (1) and (2) or fire-fighter's outfits referred to in subsection (3), as the case may be, that the employer must provide at the workplace — and their sizing, if applicable — is to be determined having regard to the risk assessment carried out by the employer for the purposes of the occupational health and safety program referred to in section 210.02 of the Act.

Minimums

(5) Despite subsection (4), the number of sets of equipment or outfits, as the case may be, that the employer must provide is at least

Equipment accessibility

(6) The employer must ensure that the equipment provided in accordance with this section is kept ready for use and stored in a place that is easily accessible, with at least two sets of equipment or two outfits, as the case may be, being easily accessible from the marine installation or structure's helicopter deck, if any.

Falls into ocean

29 The risk of a person at a workplace falling into the ocean is a prescribed risk for the purpose of paragraph 210.02(2)(a) of the Act and the employer with control over that workplace must

Emergency drills and exercises

30 (1) Every employer must establish, for each workplace under its control that is a marine installation or structure, and having regard to the risk assessment carried out by it for the purposes of its occupational health and safety program referred to in section 210.02 of the Act, a plan describing the emergency drills and exercises that must be conducted at the workplace in relation to various scenarios and setting out the frequency with which they must be conducted.

Minimum frequency

(2) Despite subsection (1), the employer must ensure that

Alternative to launching drill

(3) If compliance with subparagraph (2)(d)(ii) is not feasible, the employer must ensure that additional inspections and testing of all components that would otherwise be tested by the launching drill are carried out in consultation with the lifeboat manufacturer and with the prior approval of the Chief Safety Officer.

Equitable scheduling

(4) The employer must schedule drills and exercises to ensure the equitable participation of all employees, regardless of shift or rotation.

Visitors

(5) The employer must ensure that any person visiting the workplace who has not participated in the emergency drills or exercises is accompanied throughout the visit by someone who has done so.

Records

(6) The employer must keep a record of all emergency drills and exercises conducted that contains

Record retention

(7) The employer must retain the records referred to in subsection (6) for at least three years after the day on which the drill or exercise is carried out.

PART 6

First Aid and Medical Care

Operator's obligations

31 Every operator must ensure that

Employer obligations

32 (1) Every employer with control over a workplace must

TABLE
Item

Column 1

Number of persons at the workplace

Column 2

Number of first aiders with standard first aid certificate
or higher

Column 3

Number of additional first aiders with advanced first aid certificate or qualifications equivalent to those of a medic

Column 4

Number of medics

1 6–10 1 plus 1 for every 2 persons in excess of 6 0 0
2 11–30 3 plus 1 for every 2 persons in excess of 10 1 0
3 31–40 13 plus 1 for every 2 persons in excess of 30 1 0
4 More than 40 17 plus 1 for every 2 persons in excess of 40 2 plus 1 for every 10 persons in excess of 40 1

First aid kits

(2) The first aid supplies referred to in paragraph (1)(c) must include first aid kits that

Automated external defibrillators

(3) If the workplace is a marine installation or structure, the first aid equipment referred to in paragraph (1)(c) must include

Medical rooms

(4) If the workplace is a marine installation or structure, the facilities referred to in paragraph (1)(c) must include a medical room

Medics

33 (1) To be designated as a medic under paragraph 32(1)(f), a person must

No other duties

(2) The employer must not assign to the medic any other duties that will interfere with the prompt and adequate provision of first aid and medical care.

Responsibility

(3) A medic must, in providing first aid or medical care to an injured or ill person,

First aiders

34 (1) Every employer must allow any first aider — and any other employee that the first aider needs for assistance — to provide prompt and adequate first aid to an injured or ill person and ensure that they have adequate time to do so, with no loss of pay or benefits.

Responsibility

(2) A first aider must, in providing first aid to an injured or ill person,

Treatment records

35 (1) Every first aider or medic who provides care to an injured or ill person or from whom treatment is sought must make and sign a record containing the following information:

Retention

(2) The employer with control over the workplace at which the record is made must retain it, from the day on which the injury or illness is first documented, for

PART 7

Employee Well-being

Occupational health and safety program

36 The occupational health and safety program referred to in section 210.02 of the Act must set out measures for promoting mental health and healthy lifestyles and must address substance abuse, the effects on mental health of working in a remote location and the management of mental illness.

Impairment

37 (1) Impairment, including as a result of fatigue, stress, injury, illness, another physical or psychological condition, alcohol or drugs, is a prescribed risk for the purpose of paragraph 210.02(2)(a) of the Act and the occupational health and safety program referred to in section 210.02 of the Act must

Working while impaired

(2) Every employer must ensure that no employee at a workplace under its control is permitted to work if their ability to do so is impaired in a manner that is likely to be hazardous to their health or safety or that of any other person at the workplace.

Investigation of incidents

(3) Impairment must be considered as a potential causal factor in the investigation of all incidents at the workplace.

Fatigue training

38 The instruction and training that every employer must provide to its employees includes instruction and training on the factors that contribute to fatigue, procedures for identifying and reporting fatigue and the role and duties of employees in managing fatigue.

Rest periods

39 (1) Every employer must ensure that no employee works at a workplace under its control unless they have been provided with a minimum of 11 consecutive hours of rest in the previous 24 hours.

Exception

(2) An employer may, in extenuating circumstances, allow an employee to work without that rest period if the employer has assessed the risk associated with the employee working the extra hours and determined, in consultation with the employee, that the work can be carried out without increased risk to their health or safety.

Documentation

(3) If an employer allows an employee to work without that rest period, the employer must ensure that a description of the work, the name of the employee, the hours worked, the reason for the exception and the result of the risk assessment referred to in subsection (2) are recorded.

Non-application in emergency

(4) Subsection (1) does not apply in the event of an emergency at the workplace that may be hazardous to the health or safety of employees.

Alternative

(5) Despite subsections (1) and (2), the employer with control over a workplace for which an authorization has been issued for a period of less than six months may alternatively comply, in respect of the marine crew, with the daily hours of work and minimum rest requirements outlined in the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW), 1978.

Thermal stress

40 Thermal stress is a prescribed risk for the purpose of paragraph 210.02(2)(a) of the Act and every employer must ensure, in respect of all persons at each workplace under its control who may be exposed to heat or cold, that

Musculoskeletal injury

41 (1) In this section, musculoskeletal injury means an injury to or disorder of the muscles, tendons, ligaments, joints, nerves, blood vessels or related soft tissue, including a sprain, strain or inflammation.

Procedures

(2) Musculoskeletal injury is a prescribed risk for the purpose of paragraph 210.02(2)(a) of the Act and the procedures referred to in that paragraph must include the assessment, in consultation with the following persons, of the extent to which that risk is associated with each type of work carried out at the workplace:

Hazard control measures

(3) The employer must ensure that interim hazard control measures are implemented without delay after the risks of musculoskeletal injury are assessed and permanent measures, determined with regard to the parameters established by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists in its publication TLVs and BEIs: Based on the Documentation of the Threshold Limit Values for Chemical Substances and Physical Agents & Biological Exposure Indices, are implemented as soon as practicable.

Workplace violence and harassment

42 (1) In this section, workplace violence and harassment means any action, conduct or comment, including of a sexual nature, that can reasonably be expected to cause offence, humiliation or other physical or psychological injury or illness to an employee.

Policy

(2) Workplace violence and harassment is a prescribed risk for the purpose of paragraph 210.02(2)(a) of the Act and every employer must develop and post at a place accessible to all employees a policy setting out the employer's commitment to

Occupational health and safety program

(3) The occupational health and safety program referred to in section 210.02 of the Act must

Training

(4) The training that every employer must provide to each of its employees includes training on the factors that contribute to workplace violence and harassment.

Disruptive behaviour

43 Every employer must instruct all employees at each workplace under its control to refrain from engaging in disruptive behaviour at the workplace that may be hazardous to themselves or any other person.

PART 8

Personal Protective Equipment

Employee obligations

44 (1) The personal protective equipment that every employee must use or wear for the purpose of paragraph 210.027(b) of the Act includes, in respect of any hazard to which they are exposed, all personal protective equipment that the employer or operator provides to them for the purpose of preventing or reducing injury from that hazard.

Compatibility with clothing

(2) Every employee must ensure that any clothing worn by them does not interfere with the proper functioning of any personal protective equipment used or worn by them.

Requirements

45 Every employer must ensure that all personal protective equipment that it provides to its employees, or to other individuals at a workplace under its control,

Prescribed equipment

46 The personal protective equipment that every employer must provide to its employees and other individuals at a workplace under its control includes

Respiratory protective equipment

47 (1) Every employer must ensure that any respiratory protective equipment that they provide to employees or other individuals at a workplace under its control is used in accordance with CSA Group standard Z94.4, Selection, use, and care of respirators.

Air supply

(2) The employer must ensure that any respiratory protective equipment that supplies air is used only if

Personal gas monitoring device

48 Every employer must ensure that each personal gas monitoring device used at a workplace under its control is bump tested before each use.

Records

49 Despite subsection 90(2), every employer must retain the records referred to in paragraph 90(1)(f) in respect of all personal protection equipment that they provide for as long as the equipment is in service.

PART 9

Passengers in Transit

Transit by helicopter

50 (1) The information and instruction that every operator must, for the purpose of paragraph 210.014(1)(a) of the Act, ensure is provided to each of the employees and other passengers being transported on a helicopter to or from any of its workplaces includes

Equipment

(2) The equipment and devices with which every operator must, for the purpose of paragraph 210.014(2)(b) of the Act, ensure that any helicopter going to or from any of its workplaces is equipped includes

Personal protective equipment

(3) The personal protective equipment that every operator must, for the purpose of paragraph 210.014(3)(a) of the Act, ensure is provided to each of the employees and other passengers on a helicopter going to or from any of its workplaces includes

Training

(4) The training that every operator must, for the purpose of paragraph 210.014(3)(b) of the Act, ensure is provided to each of the employees and other passengers on a helicopter going to or from any of its workplaces includes

Exception

(5) The requirements to provide or wear a helicopter passenger transportation suit system or emergency underwater breathing apparatus or to provide training in their use do not apply in respect of any passenger in respect of whom there is an exemption, under subsection 5.9(2) of the Aeronautics Act, from the requirements under the Canadian Aviation Regulations respecting the wearing of a helicopter passenger transportation suit system or the use of an emergency underwater breathing apparatus.

Transit by vessel

51 (1) The information and instruction that every operator must, for the purpose of paragraph 210.014(1)(a) of the Act, ensure is provided to each of the employees and other passengers being transported on a vessel to or from any of its workplaces includes

Equipment

(2) The equipment and devices with which every operator must, for the purpose of paragraph 210.014(2)(b) of the Act, ensure that any vessel going to or from any of its workplaces is equipped includes

Personal protective equipment

(3) The personal protective equipment that every operator must, for the purpose of paragraph 210.014(3)(a) of the Act, ensure is provided to each of the employees and other passengers on a vessel going to or from any of its workplaces includes an immersion suit that conforms to paragraph 46(b).

Training

(4) The training that every operator must, for the purpose of paragraph 210.014(3)(b) of the Act, ensure is provided to each of the employees and other passengers on a vessel going to or from any of its workplaces includes practice in donning and doffing the provided immersion suit.

Safe entry and exit

52 (1) Every operator must establish procedures for safe entry to and exit from each of its workplaces that is a marine installation or structure, including procedures respecting the use of gangways and fast rescue boats to transfer persons between marine installations and structures.

Swing rope prohibited

(2) The procedures must prohibit the use of swing ropes for entering to or exiting from a marine installation or structure.

PART 10

Work Permits

Contents

53 (1) A work permit that is required by these Regulations must be issued, in either paper or electronic form, by a competent person designated by the employer with control over the workplace at which the activity to which the work permit relates is carried out, must be approved by a second competent person designated by that employer and must set out

Signatures

(2) The work permit must be signed by the person who issued it, the person who approved it and every person involved in the activity to which it relates, to certify that they have read and understood its contents.

Occupational health and safety program

54 The occupational health and safety program referred to in section 210.02 of the Act must address the issuance and use of work permits, including

Employer obligations

55 (1) Every employer must ensure that

Retention of copy

(2) Every employer must retain a copy of each work permit issued at a workplace under its control for at least three years after the day on which the activity to which it relates is completed.

PART 11

Facilities

Application

56 This Part applies in respect of a workplace that is a marine installation or structure.

Accommodations area

57 (1) Every employer must ensure that the accommodations area at each workplace under its control

Storage of equipment

(2) The employer must ensure that no equipment is stored in an accommodations area unless

Washrooms

58 (1) Every employer must make available a sufficient number of washrooms for use by persons of all gender identities at each workplace under its control, in locations conveniently accessible from all work areas.

Multiple toilets

(2) If there are multiple toilets within a washroom, the employer must ensure that

Requirements

(3) The employer must ensure that all washrooms

Portable toilet units

59 (1) If the number of washrooms at a workplace is insufficient to accommodate the number of persons at that workplace during its commissioning or decommissioning, the employer with control over the workplace may satisfy its obligations under subsection 58(1) by supplementing the available washrooms with portable toilet units.

Requirements

(2) The employer must ensure that all portable toilet units

Handwashing facilities

60 (1) Every employer must make available a sufficient number of handwashing facilities for use by persons at each workplace under its control, in locations conveniently accessible from all work areas.

Requirements

(2) The employer must ensure that all handwashing facilities

Showers

61 (1) Every employer must make available a sufficient number of showers for use by persons at each workplace under its control.

Requirements

(2) The employer must ensure that all showers

Changing facilities

62 Every employer must provide, at each workplace under its control, a changing facility that

Sleeping quarters

63 (1) Every employer must ensure that the sleeping quarters at each workplace under its control contain, for each person assigned to those quarters,

Private room and washroom

(2) Every employer must, to the extent feasible, assign each person at a workplace under its control their own sleeping quarters, with direct access to their own washroom containing a shower.

Alternative

(3) If compliance with subsection (2) is not feasible, the employer must

Dining area

64 Every employer must ensure the provision, at each workplace under its control, of a dining area that is

Smoking areas

65 (1) It is prohibited to smoke or use a vaping device at a workplace other than in an area designated for that purpose by the employer with control over the workplace.

Designation of areas

(2) An employer must select any area that it designates as an area in which smoking or the use of a vaping device is permitted having regard to

Prohibition in vicinity of drilling or production

(3) It is prohibited to smoke or use a vaping device — even within a designated area — on the deck of a marine installation or structure if drilling or production activities are being carried out in the vicinity.

Indoor areas

(4) The employer must ensure, with respect to any indoor area that it designates as an area in which smoking or the use of a vaping device is permitted, that

Signage

(5) Every employer must ensure that signage is posted outside each entrance to an area in which smoking or the use of a vaping device is permitted, indicating

Designation removed

(6) If an employer removes the designation of an area as an area in which smoking or the use of a vaping device is permitted, it must ensure that the signage referred to in paragraph (5)(a) remains posted outside each entrance to the area until it contains no residual contaminants from the smoking or vaping activity.

PART 12

Sanitation and Housekeeping

Waste material

66 The risks associated with the accumulation of and exposure to waste material, including garbage, recyclable refuse, food waste and debris, are prescribed risks for the purpose of paragraph 210.02(2)(a) of the Act and every employer must ensure, at each workplace under its control, that

Pests

67 (1) The risks associated with the presence of pests are prescribed risks for the purpose of paragraph 210.02(2)(a) of the Act and every employer must ensure that the enclosed parts of each workplace under its control are constructed, equipped and maintained in a manner that prevents, to the extent feasible, the entry of pests.

Elimination of pests

(2) If pests have entered an enclosed part of the workplace, the employer must immediately take all steps necessary to eliminate the pests and prevent their re-entry.

Records

(3) The occupational health and safety program referred to in section 210.02 of the Act must provide for the keeping of pest control inspection and pesticide application records.

Cleanliness and orderliness

68 The hazard control measures set out in the occupational health and safety program referred to in section 210.02 of the Act must include procedures for

Storage

69 Every employer must ensure that all things at each workplace under its control are stored or placed in a manner that does not a present a hazard to the health or safety of any person, including by

PART 13

Food and Drinking Water

Food safety

70 The risks arising from the consumption of unsafe food are, in respect of every workplace at which food is served, prescribed risks for the purpose of paragraph 210.02(2)(a) of the Act and the employer with control over the workplace must ensure that

Potable water

71 (1) In this section, potable water means water that conforms to the Department of Health's Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality.

Employer's obligations

(2) Every employer must provide, to all persons at each workplace under its control, potable water for drinking and food preparation and must ensure that clean and sanitary cups are provided for drinking water that is not provided from a drinking fountain.

Occupational health and safety program

(3) The risks associated with the consumption of non-potable water are prescribed risks for the purpose of paragraph 210.02(2)(a) of the Act and the occupational health and safety program referred to in section 210.02 of the Act must

PART 14

Lighting

Non-application

72 This Part does not apply to the lighting of the bridge of a mobile offshore drilling unit or the bridge of any ship used for construction, production or diving or for geotechnical or seismic work.

Minimum levels

73 Every employer must, in respect of each workplace under its control, ensure that

TABLE
Item

Column 1

Work Position or Area

Column 2

Minimum Average Level in lx

1 Office areas:
(a) work positions at which cartography, drafting, plan reading or other tasks requiring high visual precision are performed 800
(b) work positions at which business machines are operated or prolonged reading or writing tasks are performed 500
(c) other areas 50
2 Laboratories:
(a) work positions at which instruments are read or hazardous substances are handled if errors in such reading or handling may be hazardous to the health or safety of an employee 800
(b) work positions at which close or prolonged attention is given to laboratory work 500
(c) other areas 50
3 Workshops and garages:
(a) work positions at which fine or medium bench, machine or repair work is performed 500
(b) work positions at which rough bench, machine or repair work is performed 300
(c) other areas 50
4 Process areas:
(a) work positions in major control rooms or rooms with dial displays at which tasks essential to the control of equipment or machinery that may be hazardous to the safety of employees are performed 800
(b) work positions at which a hazardous substance is used, stored or handled 500
(c) work positions at which gauges and meters that are not self-illuminating are located 50
(d) other areas 20
5 Loading platforms and warehouses:
(a) work positions at which packages or goods are checked or sorted 150
(b) work positions at which loading or unloading work is frequently performed 100
6 Storage areas:
(a) areas in which there is a high level of activity 50
(b) other areas 20
7 Derricks, drill floors and moon pools:
(a) work positions at which there is a high level of activity 100
(b) other areas 20
8 Entrances, exits, elevators, corridors, aisles and stairways:
(a) areas in which there is a high level of activity or where there is a high frequency of traffic 100
(b) other areas 50
9 Medical rooms:
(a) work positions at which first aid or medical care is rendered or examinations are conducted or at which other tasks essential to the health or safety of an employee are performed 1000
(b) other areas 500
10 Food preparation areas:
(a) work positions at which prolonged cutting or preparation tasks are performed 1000
(b) other areas 300
11 Dining areas and recreation areas 200
12 Sleeping quarters 100
13 Washrooms and showers 200
14 Boiler, engine, ballast control and generator rooms 200
15 Rooms in which principal heating, ventilation or air-conditioning equipment is installed 70
16 Emergency shower facilities, emergency equipment locations, muster stations, temporary refuge areas and lifeboat and life raft locations 50

Emergency lighting

74 (1) Every employer must ensure that each workplace under its control that is a marine installation or structure is equipped with an emergency lighting system that

Verification

(2) The employer must ensure that the emergency lighting system is verified to be in working order at least once a month.

Handling, storage and disposal

75 Every employer must ensure that lighting components and bulbs at each workplace under its control are handled, stored and disposed of in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions and in a manner that does not pose a risk to any person.

PART 15

Sound Levels

Unimpeded communication

76 Every employer must ensure that sound levels at each workplace under its control do not impede communication during normal or emergency operations.

Noise

77 (1) Excessive noise is a prescribed risk for the purpose of paragraph 210.02(2)(a) of the Act and every employer must ensure, with respect to each workplace under its control, other than an underwater area, that

Survey results

(2) The employer must retain the results of all noise surveys for at least 10 years after the day on which they were carried out.

Instruction and training

(3) The instruction and training that every employer must provide to its employees includes instruction and training on the risks posed by excessive noise.

PART 16

Ventilation

Air quality

78 (1) Poor air quality is a prescribed risk for the purpose of paragraph 210.02(2)(a) of the Act and every employer must ensure that all contaminants in the air at each workplace under its control are kept below the applicable threshold limit values, including — if the workplace is a marine installation or structure — through the installation, use, maintenance and testing of appropriate ventilation systems and other engineering controls.

Local exhaust ventilation

(2) The ventilation systems must, if feasible, include local exhaust ventilation systems where necessary to prevent contaminants from entering an employee's breathing zone while working.

Ventilation system

79 Every employer must ensure, with respect to any ventilation system installed at a workplace under its control, that

Internal combustion engine

80 If mobile equipment powered by an internal combustion engine is operated indoors or in an enclosed work area, the employer with control over the workplace at which it is operated must ensure that the engine is maintained to ensure conformity with the requirements of American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists standard Industrial Ventilation: A Manual of Recommended Practice for Design relating to vehicle exhaust ventilation.

PART 17

Pressure Equipment

Definitions

81 The following definitions apply in this Part.

inspection
means an inspection for the purpose of verifying the safety of pressure equipment that is carried out by a person recognized under the laws of Canada or of a province as being qualified to carry out such an inspection or by a representative of a certifying authority referred to in section 143.2 of the Act. (inspection)
pressure equipment
means
  • (a) a boiler, other than a heating boiler that has a heating surface of 3 m2 or less;
  • (b) a pressure vessel, other than one that
    • (i) has a capacity of 40 L or less,
    • (ii) is installed for use at a pressure of 100 kPa or less, or
    • (iii) has an internal diameter of
      • (A) 15.2 cm or less, or
      • (B) 61 cm or less, if it is used for the storage of hot water or is connected to a water pumping system containing air that is compressed to serve as a cushion; or
  • (c) a piping system that contains a substance under pressure, other than a domestic water and plumbing system or a refrigeration plant that has a capacity of 18kW or less of refrigeration. (équipement sous pression)

Inspection

82 Every employer must ensure that all pressure equipment at a workplace under its control is, despite paragraph 90(1)(e), subject to

Records

83 Every employer must ensure that the person who carries out an inspection under section 82 includes in the record referred to in paragraph 90(1)(f)

PART 18

Structural Safety

Movement within workplace

84 Every employer must ensure, to the extent feasible, that all persons at each workplace under its control that is a marine installation or structure are able to move around the workplace, including through corridors, without bending, sidling or tripping and must ensure that any changes in floor elevation and ceiling height that pose a risk of injury and cannot be eliminated are clearly marked.

Doors

85 Every employer must ensure, at each workplace under its control that is a marine installation or structure, that

Guard-rails

86 Any guard-rail that is required under these Regulations must

Wall and floor openings and open edges

87 Every employer must ensure that, in any area on a marine installation or structure under its control to which a person might have access,

Open-top enclosures

88 (1) Every employer must ensure, at each workplace under its control, that, if an employee has access to the top of a bin, hopper, tank, vat, pit or similar enclosure with an opening at the top that is large enough for a person to fit through,

Support capability

(2) The grating, screen, covering or walkway must be capable of supporting the greater of

Access to inside

(3) If an employee is required to access the inside of an open-top enclosure from its top, the employer must ensure that there is a fixed ladder on the inside wall of the enclosure to permit the employee to safely enter and exit.

Structural openings

89 Every employer must ensure, before any opening is made in the structure, including any floor or wall, of a marine installation or structure under its control, that the locations of all pipes, cable and conduits in the area where the opening is to be made are clearly marked.

PART 19

Equipment, Machines and Devices

Requirements

90 (1) Every operator and employer must ensure, with respect to any equipment, machine or device that that operator or employer provides for use at a workplace, including any part of or accessory used with one of those things, that

Records

(2) The operator or employer, as the case may be, must retain the records referred to in paragraph (1)(f), as well as a record setting out the date they acquired the equipment, machine or device, until five years after the day on which the equipment, machine or device is taken out of service at the workplace and must ensure that those records are made readily available to any person who uses, inspects, tests, maintains, repairs or modifies the equipment, machine or device.

Exception — maintenance, repair or cleaning

(3) Despite subparagraph (1)(g)(i), a person is permitted to maintain, repair or clean a powered piece of equipment, machine or device while it is operational if

Exception — use without guard

(4) Despite subparagraph (1)(g)(ii), a person is permitted to operate any equipment, machine or device without its guard in the proper position if necessary to

Alternative procedures

(5) Every employer must establish — and must instruct all employees to follow — procedures for minimizing the risk of injury if equipment, machines or devices at a workplace under the employer's control must be maintained, repaired, cleaned or tested while operational and without a guard in place and it is not feasible to control their energy source as described in paragraph (3)(b) or subparagraph (4)(b)(i).

Removal from service

91 Every employer must ensure that any equipment, machine or device at a workplace under its control that it has reason to doubt is safe for use is taken out of service and identified in a manner that ensures it is not inadvertently returned to service until a competent person determines it to be safe for use.

Hair, clothing and accessories

92 Every employer must ensure that all persons at each workplace under its control tie, cover or otherwise secure any long hair, loose-fitting clothing, dangling accessories, jewellery or other similar items as necessary to prevent them from coming into contact with equipment or machines or otherwise presenting a risk to their health or safety.

Pedestrian passage

93 Every employer must ensure, at each workplace under its control, that a path for pedestrian use is clearly identified with floor markings or physical means through any area in which mobile equipment or other equipment that presents a risk of injury to persons passing through is being used.

Standards

94 (1) Every employer must ensure, in respect of each workplace under its control, that

Alternative safeguards

(2) If it is not feasible for equipment or a machine to be equipped as described in paragraph (1)(c), (n) or (o), or for wire rope in tension to be protected as described in paragraph (1)(p), the employer must ensure that another guard, safety device or awareness barrier is put in place to protect against the hazard.

Fuelling

95 (1) Every employer must ensure that no equipment or machine at a workplace under its control is fuelled and no fuel is transferred between containers

Exception

(2) Despite subparagraph (1)(a)(ii), equipment may be fuelled in the hold of a vessel or another enclosed space if

Procedures

(3) Every employer must develop procedures to be followed respecting the fuelling of equipment to protect employees' health and safety.

PART 20

Elevators and Personnel Lifts

Standards

96 (1) Every employer must ensure that each elevator at a workplace under its control is designed, maintained, tested, inspected and used in accordance with ASME standard A17.1/CSA Group standard B44, Safety code for elevators and escalators, and that each personnel lift at a workplace under its control is designed, installed, maintained, tested, inspected and used in accordance with CSA Group standard CAN/CSA-B311, Safety Code for Manlifts.

Inspection and testing

(2) The employer must ensure that every elevator and personnel lift is inspected and tested

Inspection validity

(3) An inspection ceases to be valid one year after the day on which it is carried out.

Record

(4) The employer must ensure that the person who inspects an elevator or personnel lift includes in the record referred to in paragraph 90(1)(f) the date on which the inspection ceases to be valid.

Elevator documentation

97 Every employer must ensure that a document is posted in each elevator at a workplace under its control that identifies the elevator by its location, indicates its capacity and sets out the date on which its most recent inspection ceases to be valid.

PART 21

Ladders, Stairs and Ramps

Application

98 This Part applies in respect of a workplace that is a marine installation or structure.

Ship's ladder

99 For the purposes of this Part, any reference to stairs includes a permanently installed structure, commonly known as a ship's ladder, that has a steep pitch, rigid treads supported by rigid side rails and a handrail on each side.

Requirement to install

100 If an employee in the course of routine work is required to move between levels that are more than 45 cm apart, the employer with control over the workplace must ensure that a fixed ladder, fixed stairs or a fixed ramp is installed between the levels.

Stairs, ramps and fixed ladders

101 (1) Every employer must ensure that all stairs, ramps and fixed ladders that are installed at each workplace under its control, as well as all cages, landings and platforms used with the fixed ladders, are designed and maintained to support any load that is likely to be imposed on them and to safely accommodate all persons who are likely to use them and all equipment that is likely to pass over them.

Hazard protection

(2) If stairs, a ramp or a fixed ladder end in direct proximity to anything that would pose a risk of injury to a person were they to inadvertently come into contact with it, the employer must ensure that a barricade is installed that will protect persons using the stairs, ramp or ladder from that hazard.

Temporary stairs

102 Every employer must ensure that all temporary stairs installed at a workplace under its control are securely fastened in place and have

Ramps

103 Every employer must ensure that every ramp installed at a workplace under its control is

Fixed ladders

104 (1) Every employer must ensure that any fixed ladder installed at a workplace under its control, other than one installed as part of a scaffold,

Use

(2) While ascending or descending a fixed ladder at a workplace, every employee must

Prohibition

(3) An employee must not use a metal or wire-bound fixed ladder if there is a risk of it coming into contact with an energized electrical conductor or circuit part or with energized electrical equipment.

Portable ladders

105 (1) Every employer must ensure that any portable ladder used at a workplace under its control

Use

(2) An employee who uses a portable ladder at a workplace must do so in accordance with CSA Group standard Z11, Portable ladders, and must ensure that, while the ladder is in use,

Prohibitions

(3) An employee must not

PART 22

Scaffolding and Platforms

Definition of elevating work platform

106 In this Part, elevating work platform means a type of integral chassis aerial platform that has an adjustable position platform that is supported from ground level by an articulating or telescoping boom or by a vertically oriented, telescoping or elevating mast.

Use — general

107 (1) Every employer must ensure that no employee uses a scaffold, suspended work platform or elevating work platform at a workplace under the employer's control unless

Hazardous conditions

(2) The employer must ensure that no employee uses a scaffold, suspended work platform or elevating work platform in environmental conditions that are likely to increase the risk to the health or safety of the employee unless necessary to remove a hazard or rescue a person.

Prevention of contact

108 The employer must ensure that, if there is a risk of a person or equipment coming into contact with a scaffold, suspended work platform or elevating work platform in a manner that would pose a hazard, a barricade is installed or, if that is not feasible, another means of preventing the contact is provided.

Scaffolds

109 (1) Every employer must ensure, with respect to any scaffold used at a workplace under its control, that

Ladder jack scaffold

(2) Every employer must ensure that no ladder jack scaffold is used at a workplace under its control.

Elevating work platforms

110 Every employer must ensure, with respect to any elevating work platform at a workplace under its control, that

PART 23

Fall Protection and Rope Access

Risk of falling

111 The risk of a person falling from any of the following locations is a prescribed risk for the purpose of paragraph 210.02(2)(a) of the Act:

Means of protection

112 (1) Every employer must ensure that whichever of the following means of fall protection is most appropriate in the circumstances is provided whenever a person at a workplace under its control is in a location referred to in section 111:

Occupational health and safety program

(2) The occupational health and safety program referred to in section 210.02 of the Act must

Fall-arrest system required

(3) Despite subsection (1) and paragraph (2)(a), the employer must ensure that a fall-arrest system described in paragraph (1)(d) is provided to every person

Use

(4) The employer must ensure that any means of protection referred to in paragraphs (1)(c) to (e) that it provides is used in accordance with the standards referred to in those paragraphs and, in the case of a fall-arrest system provided to a person referred to in paragraph (3)(a), is secured to an anchorage point that is approved by the platform's manufacturer or a professional engineer.

Safety net

(5) The employer must ensure that any safety net provided

Components

(6) The employer must ensure that

Rope access

113 (1) In this section, rope access means the use of ropes, in combination with other devices, to get to or from a work area or to maintain one's position in a work area.

IRATA code

(2) Despite subsections 112(1), (3) and (4), every employer must ensure that any rope access carried out at a workplace under its control, or by any of its employees at a workplace not under its control, conforms, subject to subsection (4), to the IRATA International code of practice for industrial rope access, published by the Industrial Rope Access Trade Association.

Interpretation of code

(3) For the purpose of subsection (2), all recommendations in the code are mandatory, unless compliance with the measure is not feasible, in which case the employer must demonstrate to the Chief Safety Officer, before any non-conforming rope access is carried out, that other controls are in place to mitigate or eliminate the risk that the measure is intended to address.

Alternative standards

(4) A requirement in the code to conform to a standard in respect of equipment is satisfied by instead conforming, as applicable, to

Headwear

(5) The personal protective equipment that every employer is required to provide to any of its employees, and to any other individual at a workplace under its control, who is engaged in rope access includes headwear that conforms to

Work permit

114 A work permit is required for any activity at a workplace that requires the use of a fall-arrest system or travel restraint system.

Instruction and training

115 (1) The instruction and training that every employer must provide to its employees and other individuals at a workplace under its control who are involved in activities requiring the use of a fall-arrest system or travel restraint system includes

Timing

(2) The instruction and training must be provided

PART 24

Falling Objects

Risk of injury

116 (1) The risk of injury from an object or material at the workplace falling over or from its previous position is a prescribed risk for the purpose of paragraph 210.02(2)(a) of the Act.

Toe board or panel

(2) Subject to subsection (3), every employer must ensure, at each workplace under its control, that wherever there is a risk of objects or material falling from a raised work area onto a person below, a toe board or other solid or mesh panel that extends from the floor of the raised area to a sufficient height to prevent the objects or material from falling from the raised area is installed.

Alternative measures

(3) If the installation of a toe board or panel is not feasible, the employer must ensure that

PART 25

Materials Handling

Definitions

117 The following definitions apply in this Part.

personnel transfer
means the transfer by crane of employees between a vessel and marine installation or structure, between vessels or between marine installations or structures. (transfert du personnel)
signaller
means a person who directs, by means of visual or auditory signals, the safe movement and operation of materials handling equipment. (signaleur)

Lifting risks

118 (1) The risks associated with the use of materials handling equipment to lift persons and things are prescribed risks for the purpose of paragraph 210.02(2)(a) of the Act and the occupational health and safety program referred to in section 210.02 of the Act must

Personnel transfer risk

(2) For the purpose of paragraph (1)(b), a personnel transfer must not be classified as a low risk lift.

Work permit

119 A work permit is required for all lifts carried out at a workplace using materials handling equipment, except those classified under the employer’s occupational health and safety program as low risk.

Prohibitions

120 It is prohibited for

Hazardous conditions

121 The employer must ensure that no person uses materials handling equipment at a workplace under its control in conditions in which that use presents a risk to the health or safety of any person unless necessary to prevent a greater risk to the health or safety of any person.

Manual handling

122 Every employer must ensure that, if the manual handling of any thing may be hazardous to the health or safety of an employee, including because of its weight, size, shape or toxicity, it is, to the extent feasible, handled only using materials handling equipment.

Rated capacity

123 Every employer must ensure that a competent person who is independent of the operator and employer inspects and proof tests, in the following circumstances, all materials handling equipment that is to be used at a workplace under the employer’s control and, on that basis, certifies in writing the rated capacity of the equipment and indicates in writing any limitations that must be imposed on its use having regard to environmental conditions:

Materials handling equipment

124 (1) Every employer must ensure, with respect to all materials handling equipment used at a workplace under its control, that

Exception to rated or reduced capacity

(2) Despite paragraph (1)(f), the materials handling equipment may be used to handle a load in excess of its rated capacity or reduced capacity for the purposes of testing and inspection.

Protection against contact

(3) If the employer is unable to determine with reasonable certainty the location of the hazard referred to in paragraph (1)(z.3) or the distance referred to in subparagraph (1)(z.3)(ii), or if it is necessary for the materials handling equipment to be used in closer proximity than that distance, the materials handling equipment may be used in the area only if

Cranes and hoists

125 (1) Every employer must ensure, with respect to each lift by a crane or hoist that is carried out at a workplace under its control, that

Area marked and secured

(2) For the purpose of paragraph (1)(e), the employer must ensure that all approaches to the area in which the lift is being carried out are posted with universally recognized warning signs prohibiting access by unauthorized persons and are secured to prevent inadvertent access.

Presence of non-essential persons

(3) A person who operates a crane or hoist must not start a lift if a non-essential person is in the area in which the lift is being carried out. If such a person enters that area while a lift is in progress, the person operating the crane or hoist must immediately take measures to mitigate the risk to all persons, discontinue the lift as soon as it is safe to do so and not resume the lift until the area is cleared of non-essential persons.

Crane near helicopter deck

(4) Every employer must ensure that, when a helicopter is landing or taking off, any crane at a workplace under its control that could pose a physical or visual hazard to the helicopter or its crew remains stationary and, if feasible, has its boom stowed.

Offshore pedestal crane

(5) Every employer must ensure that every offshore pedestal crane used at a workplace under its control

Manually operated hoist

(6) Every employer must ensure, with respect to any manually operated hoist used at a workplace under its control, that

Wire rope clips

126 Every employer must ensure that any wire rope clips used at a workplace under its control are

Mobile equipment

127 (1) Every employer must ensure, with respect to all mobile equipment that is used at a workplace under its control, that

Blind corners

(2) The employer must ensure that mirrors are installed at all blind corners that may be taken by mobile equipment to permit the person operating that equipment to see any approaching person or equipment.

Guards

(3) If mobile equipment is used on the deck of a marine installation or structure or on an elevated area, the employer must ensure that guards sufficient to prevent the equipment from falling over the edge are installed at the edge of the deck or area.

Forklift load

(4) The employer must ensure that

Additional standards

128 (1) Every employer must ensure, at each workplace under its control, that the design, construction, use, maintenance, repair, inspection and testing of

Loose lifting gear

(2) Every employer must ensure that the construction, use, maintenance, inspection and testing of all loose lifting gear used at a workplace under its control conforms to the following standards, as applicable:

Personnel transfer

129 (1) Every employer must ensure, with respect to every personnel transfer at, to or from a workplace under its control, that

Availability of personnel transfer devices

(2) Every employer must ensure that at least two personnel transfer devices are available at all times at each workplace under its control that is a marine installation or structure used for drilling or production or as a living accommodation.

Personal protective equipment

(3) The personal protective equipment that every employer must provide to an employee who is being transferred by personnel transfer includes either a helicopter passenger transportation suit system that conforms to the Airworthiness Manual published by the Department of Transport or an immersion suit that conforms to paragraph 46(b).

Signalling

130 (1) Every employer must ensure, before any materials handling equipment is used at a workplace under its control, that

Emergency stop signal

(2) Every person who operates materials handling equipment at a workplace must obey the signal for “emergency stop” given by any person.

Other means of communication

(3) If it is not feasible for a signaller to use hand signals to communicate to a person operating materials handling equipment, including due to the distance between them, the employer must ensure that

Copy of code

(4) The employer must ensure that a copy of the code referred to in paragraph (1)(b) is kept readily available for examination by all persons at the workplace.

Signaller not understood

(5) Any person who does not understand a direction given to them by a signaller must consider it to be a direction to stop.

Inspection

131 (1) The competent person who carries out the thorough safety inspection referred to in subparagraph 90(1)(e)(ii) in respect of materials handling equipment must be independent of the operator and the employer.

Increased frequency

(2) Every employer must ensure, despite subparagraph 90(1)(e)(ii), that

Identification system

(3) The employer must implement, at every workplace under its control, a system that facilitates the identification of materials handling equipment that is due for inspection.

Instruction and training

132 The instruction and training that every employer must provide to an employee who uses materials handling equipment in the course of their work includes instruction and training on the effects of environmental conditions on the equipment’s safe and proper use.

PART 26

Confined Spaces

Evaluation

133 (1) The risks to which a person in a confined space is exposed are prescribed risks for the purpose of paragraph 210.02(2)(a) of the Act and every employer must ensure that, before any work begins at a workplace under its control, a competent person evaluates the workplace and makes a record of all confined spaces in it.

Re-evaluation

(2) The employer must ensure that each workplace is re-evaluated by a competent person at least once every three years, as well as on the creation or elimination of a confined space, and that the competent person records any changes in respect of the confined spaces at the workplace from the last evaluation.

Identification

(3) Every employer must ensure that each confined space at a workplace under its control, other than a confined space that has been made inaccessible with bolted blind flanges, is visibly identified at each point of access as

Occupational health and safety program

134 The occupational health and safety program referred to in section 210.02 of the Act must, in respect of the various confined spaces at the workplace and the various types of work that could be carried out in them,

Work permits

135 (1) A work permit is required for any occupation of a confined space at a workplace.

Additional contents

(2) In addition to the information that is required to be set out in a work permit under subsection 53(1), the following information must be included in a work permit for the occupation of a confined space:

Validity

(3) A work permit for the occupation of a confined space ceases to be valid 12 hours after the most recent testing conducted under subsection 137(2).

Posting and updating

(4) The employer must ensure that a copy of the work permit is posted at every entrance to the confined space for the duration of its occupation and is updated as new information referred to in paragraph (2)(c) or paragraph 53(1)(i) becomes available.

Entry and occupation requirements

136 (1) Every employer must ensure that no person enters or remains in a confined space at a workplace under its control unless

Isolation of piping

(2) The engineering controls referred to in paragraph (1)(g) must, with respect to a pipe containing a hazardous substance or a substance under pressure or at a high temperature, consist of a blank or blind in conjunction with valves or other blocking seals that are secured in the closed position — using a positive mechanical device that is designed to resist being opened inadvertently, other than as a result of excessive force — to prevent the substance from reaching the blank or blind. The employer must ensure that the pipe is clearly marked to indicate the location of the blank or blind and that the valves or seals are clearly marked as being closed.

Unauthorized entry

(3) The employer must ensure that adequate barriers are erected to prevent unauthorized entry to the confined space.

Sign in and out

(4) Every employer must ensure that every person entering and exiting a confined space signs in and out.

Atmosphere

137 (1) Every employer must ensure, if feasible, in respect of every occupied confined space at a workplace under its control — and every area whose atmosphere may be affected by, or may affect, the atmosphere in an occupied confined space — that

Testing

(2) The employer must ensure that a competent person conducts atmospheric testing, and records the results, at intervals appropriate to the hazards in the atmosphere, including

Testing from outside

(3) The employer must ensure that the competent person remains outside the confined space to the extent feasible while carrying out the testing.

Continuous monitoring

(4) In addition to the testing required under subsection (2), the employer must ensure that the confined space's atmosphere is continuously monitored for, and that persons in the space are — with sufficient warning to be able to exit the confined space safely — alerted to any accumulation of contaminants that could pose an immediate threat to life or that could interfere with their ability to escape unaided from the confined space.

Lifeline

(5) If it is not feasible to comply with subsection (1), the employer must ensure that every person in the confined space who wears a full body harness in accordance with paragraph 136(1)(b) has securely attached to it a lifeline that is secured outside the confined space and is monitored and controlled by an attendant, unless the risk of using the lifeline would pose a greater risk to the person than not using it.

Attendants

138 (1) Every employer must ensure that attendants are stationed outside and near all entrances to each confined space at a workplace under its control while the space is occupied to

Means of communication

(2) The employer must ensure that attendants are provided with a means of communicating continuously with persons in the confined space and other attendants at the confined space and a means of summoning additional assistance.

No entry

(3) Attendants must not enter the confined space.

No other duties

(4) The employer must ensure that attendants are not assigned any duties beyond those referred to in subsection (1) while stationed outside a confined space.

Multiple entrances

(5) If a single attendant is responsible for monitoring more than one entrance to a confined space, the employer must ensure that they are stationed in the location that best allows them to perform their duties in respect of each of those entrances.

Instruction and training

139 (1) The instruction and training that every employer must provide to employees whose work relates to confined spaces at a workplace under its control, including employees whose work involves entering, evaluating, attending at, supervising persons in or carrying out emergency response procedures in relation to a confined space, includes

Frequency

(2) The training required under subsection (1) must be provided to every employee before the first time they do any work relating to confined spaces at the workplace and then at least once every three years.

Emergency response

(3) The employer must also provide any employee who may be required to carry out emergency response procedures in relation to a confined space with training and instruction in

Completion of work

140 Every employer must ensure that, once work in a confined space at a workplace under its control is complete, a competent person verifies that all persons have left the confined space and all tools, equipment and other material not intended to remain in the confined space have been removed.

PART 27

Hot Work

Risks

141 The risks arising from hot work are prescribed risks for the purpose of paragraph 210.02(2)(a) of the Act.

Work permit

142 (1) A work permit is required for all hot work carried out at a workplace.

Content — circumstances

(2) The circumstances referred to in paragraph 53(1)(e) that must be set out in the work permit include

Content — procedures

(3) The work procedures referred to in paragraph 53(1)(f) that must be set out in the work permit must identify, among other things, the tools and equipment to be used in carrying out the hot work.

Requirements

143 (1) Every employer must ensure that no hot work is carried out at a workplace under its control unless

Welding, cutting and allied processes

(2) The employer must ensure that welding, cutting and allied processes are carried out, to the extent feasible, in accordance with the requirements set out in CSA Group standard W117.2, Safety in welding, cutting, and allied processes.

Use of gas

(3) The employer must ensure that, if gas is used in the carrying out of hot work,

PART 28

Hazardous Energy

Definitions

144 The following definitions apply in this Part.

electrical hazard
means a danger of electric shock, arc flash burn, thermal burn or blast injury resulting from contact with electrical equipment or failure of that equipment. (risque associé à l'électricité)
hazardous energy
means any energy that can harm a person. (énergie dangereuse)
limited approach boundary
means
  • (a) in respect of an exposed energized electrical conductor,
    • (i) if it is part of an alternating current system, the distance set out in column 2 of Schedule 1 that corresponds to the conductor's voltage in column 1, and
    • (ii) if it is part of a direct current system, the distance set out in column 2 of Schedule 2 that corresponds to the conductor's voltage in column 1; and
  • (b) in respect of an exposed energized circuit part,
    • (i) if it is part of an alternating current system, the distance set out in column 3 of Schedule 1 that corresponds to the part's voltage in column 1, and
    • (ii) if it is part of a direct current system, the distance set out in column 3 of Schedule 2 that corresponds to the part's voltage in column 1. (seuil d'approche limite)
restricted approach boundary,
in respect of an exposed energized electrical conductor or circuit part, means
  • (a) if it is part of an alternating current system, the distance set out in column 4 of Schedule 1 that corresponds to the conductor's or part's voltage in column 1; and
  • (b) if it is part of a direct current system, the distance set out in column 4 of Schedule 2 that corresponds to the conductor's or part's voltage in column 1. (seuil d'approche restrictif)

Occupational health and safety program

145 Exposure to hazardous energy, including as a result of the unexpected start-up of any equipment, machine, device or system or contact with or failure of electrical equipment, is a prescribed risk for the purpose of paragraph 210.02(2)(a) of the Act and the occupational health and safety program referred to in section 210.02 of the Act must

Work permit

146 A work permit is required for all work at a workplace that presents a risk of exposing any person to hazardous energy, including any work done closer to an exposed energized electrical conductor or circuit part than the applicable limited approach boundary or restricted approach boundary.

Employer obligations

147 (1) Every employer must ensure, at each workplace under its control, that

Lockout tag or sign

(2) If the energy source being isolated is electric, the tag or sign referred to in paragraph (1)(f) must be made of non-conductive material.

Isolation of piping

(3) The employer must ensure that

Defective electrical equipment

(4) The employer must ensure that electrical equipment that is taken out of service under section 91 is de-energized until a competent person determines it to be safe for use.

Approach boundaries

148 (1) Every employer must ensure that no person at a workplace under its control is closer to an exposed energized electrical conductor or circuit part than

No closer than necessary

(2) In any case, no person may be closer to an exposed energized electrical conductor or circuit part than is necessary to carry out their work.

Work within limited approach boundary

(3) If a person must work closer to an exposed energized electrical conductor or circuit part than the applicable limited approach boundary but does not require access to the conductor or part, or if a person working outside that boundary is at risk of inadvertently moving within it, the employer must ensure that

Work within restricted approach boundary

(4) If a person must work closer to an exposed energized electrical conductor or circuit part than the applicable restricted approach boundary, or if a person working outside that boundary is at risk of inadvertently moving within it, the employer must ensure that any tools and equipment that the person uses that could make contact with the electrical conductor or circuit part are insulated.

Arc flash boundary

(5) Every employer must ensure that, if a person at a workplace under its control must work within an arc flash boundary identified under paragraph 145(j),

Electrical safety watcher

(6) Every employer must ensure that any electrical safety watcher whom it appoints for the purpose of paragraph (3)(b) or (5)(c)

PART 29

Compressed Gas

Hose lines

149 Every employer must ensure that all hose lines for conveying flammable gas or oxygen from supply piping or compressed gas cylinders to torches at a workplace under its control have threads that conform to Compressed Gas Association standard CGA V-1, Standard for Compressed Gas Cylinder Valve Outlet and Inlet Connections.

Compressed gas cylinders

150 (1) Every employer must ensure that all compressed gas cylinders at a workplace under its control, and all equipment used with them, including regulators, automatic reducing valves, gauges and hose lines are compatible for use with one another, as indicated in the manufacturers' specifications.

Use with different gas

(2) The employer must ensure that no equipment referred to in subsection (1) that is provided for use with a compressed gas cylinder containing a particular gas or group of gases is used at a workplace under its control with a compressed gas cylinder containing a different gas, unless that use is approved by the suppliers of the compressed gas cylinder and the equipment.

Cylinder connections and valves

(3) The employer must ensure, with respect to every compressed gas cylinder at a workplace under its control, that

Portable compressed gas cylinders

151 (1) Every employer must ensure that all portable compressed gas cylinders at a workplace under its control

Signage

(2) The employer must ensure that signs are posted in a conspicuous place in each storage area in which portable compressed gas cylinders are stored, indicating the names of the gases stored.

PART 30

Abrasive Blasting and High-Pressure Washing

Definition of enclosure

152 In this Part, enclosure means a temporarily or permanently contained work area in which abrasive blasting, high-pressure washing or any similar operation is carried out, and includes an unoccupied contained work area in which such an operation is carried out by a person located outside that area.

Employer obligations

153 The risks associated with abrasive blasting, high-pressure washing or any similar operation are prescribed risks for the purpose of paragraph 210.02(2)(a) of the Act and every employer must, if such an operation is carried out at a workplace under its control, ensure that

PART 31

Explosives

Definition of activity involving an explosive

154 In this Part, activity involving an explosive includes the storage, handling, transportation, preparation or use of an explosive.

Occupational health and safety program

155 The risks associated with the carrying out of activities involving an explosive are prescribed risks for the purpose of paragraph 210.02(2)(a) of the Act and the occupational health and safety program referred to in section 210.02 of the Act must

Work permit

156 A work permit is required for any activity involving an explosive that is carried out at a workplace.

Employer obligations

157 (1) Every employer must ensure, with respect to each workplace under its control, that

Retention of register

(2) The employer must retain the register referred to in paragraph (1)(f) for at least two years after the last day on which information is recorded in it.

PART 32

Hazardous Substances

Definitions

158 The following definitions apply in this Part.

fugitive emission
means a hazardous product in any form that escapes into the workplace from processing equipment, emission control equipment or a product. (émission fugitive)
hazardous product
has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Hazardous Products Act. (produit dangereux)
hazardous waste
means a hazardous product that is intended to be recycled, recovered or disposed of. (résidu dangereux)
product identifier,
in respect of a hazardous substance, including a hazardous product, means its brand name, chemical name, common name, generic name or trade name. (identificateur de produit)

Occupational health and safety program

159 (1) Exposure to hazardous substances is a prescribed risk for the purpose of paragraph 210.02(2)(a) of the Act and the control measures set out in the occupational health and safety program referred to in section 210.02 of the Act must be commensurate to the risks associated with each hazardous substance present at the workplace.

Contents

(2) The occupational health and safety program must set out procedures for

Investigation and assessment

160 (1) The employer must, for the purpose of investigating and assessing potential exposure to hazardous substances under paragraph 210.022(f) of the Act, before the work that gives rise to the potential exposure begins,

Combined effect

(2) If two or more hazardous substances have a similar toxicological effect on the same target organ or system, their combined effect must be considered for the purpose of the investigation and assessment, using the additive mixture formula set out in the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists publication TLVs and BEIs: Based on the Documentation of the Threshold Limit Values for Chemical Substances and Physical Agents & Biological Exposure Indices.

Testing methodology

(3) If it is likely that the concentration of an airborne chemical agent referred to in clause (1)(a)(i)(F) exceeds the threshold limit value for that agent referred to in paragraph 161(1)(a), the concentration must be determined using a test that conforms to the United States National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health's NIOSH Manual of Analytical Methods, if such a test exists for that agent.

Employer obligations

161 (1) Every employer must ensure, in respect of each workplace under its control, that

Securing of valves, seals and mechanisms

(2) Each valve or other seal or mechanism referred to in subparagraph (1)(r)(i) must be secured in the open or closed position, as the case may be, using a positive mechanical device that is designed to resist being opened inadvertently, other than as a result of excessive force.

Records of exposure

(3) Every employer must retain all records of exposure referred to in paragraph 210.022(g) of the Act for 40 years after the day on which the exposure is first documented.

Identification

162 (1) For the purpose of paragraph 210.022(c) of the Act, a hazardous substance — other than a hazardous product — that is in a container is to be clearly marked with the substance's

Hazard information

(2) If a safety data sheet or other document that identifies, and sets out hazard information in respect of, a hazardous substance — other than a hazardous product — that is stored, handled or used at a workplace may be obtained from the supplier by the employer with control over the workplace, the employer must obtain that document and make it available to every employee at the workplace.

Hazardous products — labelling

163 (1) Paragraph 210.022(d) of the Act does not apply in respect of

Requirements

(2) For the purpose of paragraph 210.022(d) of the Act, the information that each label must disclose is the information that is required to be disclosed on a label under the Hazardous Products Regulations and the hazard symbols that the label must have displayed on it — and the manner of displaying those symbols — are those required by those Regulations.

Exceptions

(3) Despite subsection (2), the label need only set out

Hazardous products — safety data sheets

164 (1) Paragraph 210.022(e) of the Act does not apply in respect of

Information required

(2) The information that must be disclosed for the purpose of subparagraph 210.022(e)(v) of the Act is all information not referred to in subparagraphs 210.022(e)(i) to (iv) of the Act that is required to be included on a safety data sheet under the Hazardous Products Regulations.

Exemption from requirement to disclose

165 (1) Subject to subsection (2), if an employer has filed a claim under subsection 11(2) of the Hazardous Materials Information Review Act for an exemption from a requirement under the Act to disclose information, it must disclose in place of that information on any safety data sheet or other document, label or sign

Product identifier

(2) If the claim for exemption is in respect of a product identifier, the employer must disclose, in place of the product identifier on any safety data sheet or other document, label or sign, a code name or code number assigned by the employer to identify the hazardous product.

Instruction and training

166 The instruction and training that every employer must provide to its employees includes

Information required in emergency

167 For the purpose of subsection 210.023(1) of the Act, a medic designated under paragraph 32(1)(f) is a prescribed medical professional to whom the employer must provide the information referred to in paragraph 210.022(e) of the Act.

PART 33

Diving

Definitions

168 The following definitions apply in this Part.

decompression table
means a table or set of tables that shows a schedule of rates for safe descent and ascent and decompression stop times, having regard to the breathing mixture to be used by a diver during a dive. (table de décompression)
dive contractor
means an employer that exercises direction and control over diving operations at a workplace. (entrepreneur en plongée)
dive team
means all divers, standby divers, dive support personnel and dive supervisors on a dive project. (équipe de plongée)
dive safety specialist
means a person designated under subsection 172(1). (spécialiste de la sécurité en plongée)

Occupational health and safety program

169 The risks associated with diving operations are prescribed risks for the purpose of paragraph 210.02(2)(a) of the Act and the occupational health and safety program referred to in section 210.02 of the Act must, in respect of each workplace from which a dive project is carried out, include

Prohibitions

170 It is prohibited to carry out the following diving activities at or from any workplace:

Instruction

171 The instruction that every dive contractor must provide to all dive team members includes instruction on the hazards of diving in cold water and the appropriate emergency response to any loss of heating to a diver, their breathing mixture or their equipment.

Dive safety specialists

172 (1) The operator of a workplace from which a dive project is to be carried out and the dive contractor that exercises direction and control over the diving operations at that workplace must each designate in writing a competent person as a dive safety specialist, to be present at the dive site for the duration of the dive project and be available during all dives to advise on any matter related to the safety of the project, who

Independence

(2) The dive safety specialist designated by the operator must be independent of the dive contractor and the dive safety specialist designated by the dive contractor must be independent of the operator.

Different persons

(3) The same person may not be designated as a dive safety specialist by both the operator and dive contractor in respect of the same dive project.

Emergency response plan

173 (1) The emergency response plan developed under section 18 in respect of a workplace from which a dive project is carried out must include provisions — developed by the dive contractor that exercises direction and control over the diving operations, in consultation with the dive safety specialists for the project and, as the case may be, the installation manager referred to in section 198.2 of the Act or the offshore construction manager and dive vessel master — that

Procedures

(2) The dive contractor must ensure that detailed emergency response procedures covering all reasonably foreseeable emergencies are readily available to all persons at the workplace who may have a role in carrying them out.

Availability of plan

(3) In addition to conforming to subsection 18(3), every dive contractor must ensure that the emergency response plan for the workplace from which the dive project for which it exercises direction or control over diving operations is carried out is made readily available to all persons, including those not at the workplace, who may have a role in responding to a dive emergency.

Emergency drills and exercises

174 The plan established under section 30 for any workplace from which a dive project is carried out must include provisions, developed by the dive contractor that exercises direction and control over the diving operations, requiring the conduct of exercises and drills with respect to all reasonably foreseeable dive emergencies, including

Dive project plan

175 (1) Every dive contractor must, in respect of each dive project for which it exercises direction or control over the diving operations, in consultation with the dive safety specialists for the project and, as the case may be, the installation manager referred to in section 198.2 of the Act or the offshore construction manager and dive vessel master, establish, maintain and implement a written dive project plan that sets out, in detail, all operational and safety elements of the proposed dive project, including

Dive team

(2) For the purpose of paragraph (1)(b), the composition of the dive team must be determined having regard to the risk assessment carried out in accordance with the occupational health and safety program and that team must include

Means of communication

(3) All means of communication referred to in paragraph (1)(n) must be dedicated and continuous and, if used between a dive supervisor and diver, must

Dive contractor obligations

176 (1) Every dive contractor must ensure, with respect to all diving operations under its direction and control, that

Surface-supplied diving

(2) If the diving operation involves surface-supplied diving, the dive contractor must also ensure that

Saturation diving

(3) If the diving operation involves saturation diving, the dive contractor must also ensure that

Diving record

177 (1) Every dive contractor must make and sign a record that sets out, in respect of each dive carried out under its direction or control,

Retention of record

(2) The dive contractor must retain the record for five years after the day on which the dive is completed.

Retention of recordings

(3) The dive contractor must retain all recordings referred to in paragraphs 175(3)(c) and 176(1)(q) for 48 hours after the diver has returned to the surface or living chamber, as the case may be, or any longer period that is necessary to enable the operator to investigate an occupational disease, accident, incident or other hazardous occurrence under subsection 210.017(2) of the Act.

PART 34

Coming into Force

January 1, 2022

178 These Regulations come into force on January 1, 2022, but if they are registered after that day, they come into force on the day on which they are registered.

SCHEDULE 1

(Section 144)

Approach Boundaries for Alternating Current Systems (distance from energized electrical conductor or circuit part to person)
Item

Column 1

Nominal System Voltage Range, Phase to Phase table i1 note a

Column 2 Column 3

Column 4

Restricted Approach Boundary

Limited Approach Boundary
Exposed Energized Electrical Conductor Exposed Energized Circuit Part
1 Less than 30 V Not applicable Not applicable Not applicable
2 31 V – 150 V 3.0 m 1.0 m > 0 m
3 151 V – 750 V 3.0 m 1.0 m 0.3 m
4 751 V – 15 kV 3.0 m 1.5 m 0.7 m
5 15.1 kV – 36 kV 3.0 m 1.8 m 0.8 m
6 36.1 kV – 46 kV 3.0 m 2.5 m 0.8 m
7 46.1 kV –  72.5 kV 3.0 m 2.5 m 1.0 m
8 72.6 kV –  121 kV 3.3 m 2.5 m 1.0 m
9 138 kV –  145 kV 3.4 m 3.0 m 1.2 m
10 161 kV –  169 kV 3.6 m 3.6 m 1.3 m
11 230 kV –  242 kV 4.0 m 4.0 m 1.7 m
12 345 kV –  362 kV 4.7 m 4.7 m 2.8 m
13 500 kV –  550 kV 5.8 m 5.8 m 3.6 m
14 765 kV –  800 kV 7.2 m 7.2 m 4.9 m

Table i1 note(s)

Table i1 note a

For single-phase systems above 250 V, select the range that is equal to the system's maximum phase-to-ground voltage times 1.732.

Return to table i1 note a referrer

SCHEDULE 2

(Section 144)

Approach Boundaries for Direct Current Systems (distance from energized electrical conductors or circuit parts to person)
Item

Column 1

Nominal System Voltage Range, Phase to Phase

Column 2 Column 3

Column 4

Restricted Approach Boundary

Limited Approach Boundary
Exposed Energized Electrical Conductor Exposed Energized Circuit Part
1 Less than 30 V Not applicable Not applicable Not applicable
2 31 V – 300 V 3.0 m 1.0 m > 0 m
3 301 V – 1 kV 3.0 m 1.0 m 0.3 m
4 1.1 kV – 5 kV 3.0 m 1.5 m 0.4 m
5 5.1 kV – 15 kV 3.0 m 1.5 m 0.7 m
6 15.1 kV – 45 kV 3.0 m 2.5 m 0.8 m
7 45.1 kV – 75 kV 3.0 m 2.5 m 1.0 m
8 75.1 kV –
150 kV
3.4 m 3.0 m 1.2 m
9 150.1 kV –
250 kV
4.0 m 4.0 m 1.6 m
10 250.1 kV –
500 kV
6.0 m 6.0 m 3.5 m
11 500.1 kV –
800 kV
8.0 m 8.0 m 5.0 m