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Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 172
172 The written report referred to in subsection 171(3) must be kept by the employer on the vessel on which the confined space is located for a period of two years after the day on which the marine chemist or other qualified person signs the report.
Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 173
173 (1) In addition to the requirements set out in section 168, before an employer issues a work permit under section 166 in respect of work that requires entry into a confined space, the employer must (a) obtain a written report referred to in subsection 171(3) from a qualified person; (b) ensure that any liquid in which a person may drown or any free-flowing solid in which a person may become entrapped has been removed from the confined space; (c) ensure that the entry of any liquid, free-flowing solid or hazardous substance into the confined space has been prevented by a secure means of disconnection or the fitting of blank flanges; (d) ensure that all electrical equipment and mechanical equipment that presents a hazard to a person entering into, exiting from or performing work in the confined space has been disconnected from its power source and locked out in accordance with the standard referred to in subparagraph 167(e)(ii); (e) ensure that the opening for entry into and exit from the confined space is sufficient in size to allow safe passage of a person who is using protection equipment; and (f) establish an entry control system. (2) The written report referred to in subsection 171(3) and any procedures identified in that report must be explained to a person who is about to enter into the confined space and that person must sign a dated copy of the report indicating that they have read the report and that the report and the procedures were explained to them. (3) If conditions in the confined space or the nature of the work to be performed in the confined space are such that any of paragraphs 171(2)(a) to (c) or (1)(b) to (e) cannot be complied with, the employer must at a minimum ensure that (a) a qualified person is (i) in attendance outside the confined space, (ii) in communication with the person inside the confined space, and (iii) provided with a suitable alarm device for summoning assistance; (b) each person granted access to the confined space must wear a safety harness that is securely attached to a lifeline that is attached to a secure anchor outside the confined space and is controlled by the qualified person; (c) two or more employees, which may include the qualified person, are in the immediate vicinity of the confined space to assist in the event of an accident or other emergency; and (d) one of the employees referred to in paragraph (c) is (i) trained in the emergency procedures referred to in paragraph 171(3)(i), (ii) the holder of a first aid certificate, and (iii) provided with the protection equipment referred to in paragraph 171(3)(h) and any emergency equipment required by the procedures established by the employer under paragraph 171(3)(i). (4) A person must not close off a confined spaced until a qualified person has verified that no person is inside it. SOR/2019-246, s. 293 SOR/2021-122, s. 48
Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 174
174 (1) If a hazardous substance may be produced in a confined space by the work to be performed, (a) the confined space must be ventilated in accordance with subsection (2); or (b) each person granted access to the confined space must use respiratory protective equipment or a breathing apparatus referred to in section 142. (2) If an airborne hazardous substance or oxygen in the atmosphere in a confined space is maintained at the value, level or percentage referred to in subsection 171(2) by the use of ventilation equipment, a person may only be granted access to the confined space if (a) the ventilation equipment is (i) equipped with an alarm that will, if the equipment fails, be activated automatically and be audible or visible to any person in the confined space, or (ii) monitored by an employee who is in constant attendance at the equipment and in communication with any person in the confined space; and (b) in the event of failure of the ventilation equipment, sufficient time will be available for the person to escape from the confined space before one of the following occurs: (i) their exposure to or the concentration of a hazardous substance in the confined space is more than the value, level or percentage prescribed in paragraph 171(2)(a) or (b), and (ii) the percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere ceases to meet the requirements of paragraph 171(2)(c). (3) The employee referred to in subparagraph (2)(a)(ii) must activate an alarm in the event of faulty operation of the ventilation equipment. SOR/2019-246, s. 295 SOR/2022-94, s. 14
Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 175
175 The following definitions apply in this Part. control device means a device that will safely disconnect electrical equipment from its source of energy. ( dispositif de commande ) direct supervision means on-site, in-view observation and guidance by a qualified person while an employee performs an assigned task. ( supervision immédiate ) guarantor means a person who gives a guarantee of isolation. ( garant ) guarded means in respect of electrical equipment, covered, shielded, fenced, enclosed or otherwise protected by means of suitable covers or casing, barriers, guardrails, screens, mats or platforms to remove the possibility of dangerous contact or approach by persons or objects. ( protégé ) person in charge means a qualified person who supervises employees performing work on or a live test of isolated electrical equipment. ( responsable )
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control device means a device that will safely disconnect electrical equipment from its source of energy. ( dispositif de commande )
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direct supervision means on-site, in-view observation and guidance by a qualified person while an employee performs an assigned task. ( supervision immédiate )
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guarantor means a person who gives a guarantee of isolation. ( garant )
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guarded means in respect of electrical equipment, covered, shielded, fenced, enclosed or otherwise protected by means of suitable covers or casing, barriers, guardrails, screens, mats or platforms to remove the possibility of dangerous contact or approach by persons or objects. ( protégé )
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person in charge means a qualified person who supervises employees performing work on or a live test of isolated electrical equipment. ( responsable )
Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 176
176 (1) All testing or work performed on electrical equipment must be performed by a person in charge or an employee under the direct supervision of a person in charge. (2) Before authorizing a person to test or perform work on electrical equipment, the employer must ensure that a work permit referred to in section 166 has been obtained. (3) If there is a risk that the person in charge or the employee under the direct supervision of the person in charge could receive a hazardous electrical shock during the performance of their testing or work, (a) the person in charge or the employee must use insulated protection equipment and tools that will protect them from injury; and (b) the employee must be trained and instructed in the use of the insulated protection equipment and tools. (4) Subject to subsection (5), if an employee is working on or near electrical equipment that is live or may become live, the electrical equipment must be guarded. (5) If it is not feasible for the electrical equipment to be guarded, the employer must take measures to protect the employee from injury by insulating the equipment from the employee or the employee from the ground. SOR/2019-246, s. 296
Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 177
177 (1) If an employee is working on or near live electrical equipment and, because of the nature of the work or the condition or location of the work place, it is necessary for the safety of the employee that the work be observed by a person not engaged in the work, the employer must appoint a safety watcher (a) to warn all employees in the work place of the hazard; and (b) to ensure that all safety precautions and procedures are complied with. (2) Safety watchers must be (a) informed of their duties as safety watchers and of the hazard involved in the work; (b) trained and instructed in the procedures to follow in the event of an emergency; (c) authorized to stop immediately any part of the work that they consider dangerous; and (d) free of any other duties that might interfere with their duties as safety watchers. (3) For the purposes of subsection (1), employers may appoint themselves as safety watchers. SOR/2019-246, s. 297(F)
Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 178
178 If an employee is working on or in connection with electrical equipment, that employee and every other person who is so working, including every safety watcher, must be fully informed by the employer with respect to the safe coordination of their work.
Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 179
179 (1) [Repealed, SOR/2023-257, s. 421] (2) The path of access to every electrical switch, control device or meter must be free from obstruction. (3) If an electrical switch or other control device controlling the supply of electrical energy to electrical equipment is operated only by a person authorized to do so by the employer, the switch or control device must be fitted with a locking device that only the authorized person can activate. (4) Control switches for all electrically operated machinery must be clearly marked to indicate the switch positions. SOR/2023-257, s. 421
Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 180
180 Defective electrical equipment must be disconnected from its power source by a means other than the control switch and notices must be placed on the equipment and at the control switch to indicate that the equipment is defective.
Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 181
181 (1) Electrical fuses must be of the correct ampere rating and fault capacity rating for the circuit in which they are installed. (2) An employee must not replace missing or burnt-out fuses unless authorized to do so by a person in charge.
Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 182
182 (1) Power supply cables for portable electrical equipment must be placed clear of areas used for vehicles unless the cables are guarded. (2) A three-wire power supply cable on electrical equipment or appliances must not be altered or changed for the purpose of connecting the equipment or appliances to a two-wire power supply. SOR/2019-246, s. 298(E)
Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 183
183 Grounded electrical equipment and appliances must be used only when connected to a matching grounded electrical outlet receptacle.
Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 184
184 In addition to the requirements set out in section 168, before an employer issues a work permit for electrical equipment under section 166, the employer must provide a guarantee of isolation in respect of each source of electrical energy.
Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 185
185 (1) An employee must not give or receive a guarantee of isolation for electrical equipment unless they are authorized in writing by their employer to give or receive a guarantee of isolation. (2) No more than one employee is to give a guarantee of isolation for a piece of electrical equipment for a given period. (3) Before an employer issues a work permit, the person in charge must receive from the guarantor (a) a written guarantee of isolation; or (b) if owing to an emergency it is not feasible for the person in charge to receive a written guarantee of isolation, a non-written guarantee of isolation. (4) The written guarantee of isolation referred to in paragraph (3)(a) must be signed by the guarantor and by the person in charge and must contain the following information: (a) the date and hour when the guarantee of isolation is given to the person in charge; (b) the date and hour when the electrical equipment will become isolated; (c) the date and hour when the isolation will be terminated, if known; (d) the procedures by which isolation is assured; (e) the name of the guarantor and the person in charge; and (f) a statement as to whether live tests are to be performed. (5) If a non-written guarantee of isolation referred to in paragraph (3)(b) is given, a written record of the guarantee must, as soon as feasible, be made by the guarantor and signed by the person in charge. (6) A written record must contain the information referred to in subsection (4). (7) Every written guarantee of isolation and every written record must be (a) kept by the person in charge and made readily available for examination by the employee performing the work or live test until the work or live test is completed; (b) given to the employer when the work or live test is completed; and (c) kept by the employer at their place of business nearest to the work place in which the electrical equipment was located when it was isolated, for a period of one year after the completion of the work or live test. (8) If a written guarantee of isolation or a written record of an oral guarantee of isolation is given to a person in charge and the person in charge is replaced at the work place by another person in charge before the guarantee has terminated, the other person in charge must sign the written guarantee of isolation or written record of the oral guarantee of isolation. (9) Before an employee gives a guarantee of isolation for electrical equipment that obtains all or any portion of its electrical energy from a source that is not under the employee’s direct control, the employee must obtain a guarantee of isolation in respect of the source from the person who is in direct control of the source and is authorized to give the guarantee in respect of that source. SOR/2019-246, s. 299 SOR/2021-122, s. 49
Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 186
186 (1) An employee must not give a guarantee of isolation for the performance of a live test on isolated electrical equipment unless (a) any other guarantee of isolation given in respect of the electrical equipment for any part of the period for which the guarantee of isolation is given is terminated; (b) every person to whom the other guarantee of isolation referred to in paragraph (a) was given has been informed of its termination; and (c) any live test to be performed on the electrical equipment will not be hazardous to the health or safety of the person performing the live test. (2) Every person performing a live test must warn all persons who, during or as a result of the test, are likely to be exposed to a hazard. SOR/2019-246, s. 300(F)
Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 187
187 (1) The guarantee of isolation ends when work on, or a live test of, isolated electrical equipment is completed and the following conditions are met: (a) every person in charge (i) has informed the guarantor that the work or live test is completed, and (ii) has made and signed a record containing the date and hour when they informed the guarantor and the name of the guarantor; and (b) on receipt of the information referred to in paragraph (a), the guarantor made and signed a record containing (i) the date and hour when the work or live test was completed, and (ii) the name of the person in charge. (2) The records referred to in subparagraph (1)(a)(ii) and paragraph (1)(b) must be kept by the employer at the employer’s place of business nearest to the work place in which the electrical equipment was located when it was isolated, for a period of one year after the day on which they are signed. SOR/2019-246, s. 301(E) SOR/2021-122, s. 50
Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 188
188 (1) An employee must not attach a safety ground to electrical equipment unless they have tested the electrical equipment and have established that it is isolated. (2) Subsection (1) does not apply in respect of electrical equipment that is grounded by means of a grounding switch that is an integral part of the equipment. (3) Work must not be performed on any electrical equipment in an area if the following devices are found unless the device is connected to a common grounding network: (a) a grounding bus; (b) a station grounding network; (c) a neutral conductor; (d) temporary phase grounding; or (e) a metal structure. (4) If, after the connections are made, a safety ground is required to ensure the safety of an employee working on the electrical equipment, the safety ground must be connected to the common grounding network. (5) Every conducting part of a safety ground on isolated electrical equipment must have sufficient current carrying capacity to conduct the maximum current that is likely to be carried on any part of the equipment for the time that is necessary to permit operation of any device that is installed on the electrical equipment so that, in the event of a short circuit or other electrical current overload, the electrical equipment is automatically disconnected from its source of electrical energy. (6) A safety ground must not be attached to or disconnected from isolated electrical equipment except in accordance with the following requirements: (a) the safety ground must, if feasible, be attached to the pole, structure, apparatus or other thing to which the electrical equipment is attached; (b) all isolated conductors, neutral conductors and non-insulated surfaces of the electrical equipment must be short-circuited, electrically bonded together and attached by a safety ground to a point of safety grounding in a manner that establishes equal voltage on all surfaces that can be touched by persons who work on the electrical equipment; (c) the safety ground must be attached by means of mechanical clamps that are tightened securely and are in direct contact with bare metal; (d) the safety ground must be secured so that none of its parts can accidentally make contact with any live electrical equipment; (e) the safety ground must be attached and disconnected using insulated protection equipment and tools; (f) the safety ground must, before it is attached to isolated electrical equipment, be attached to a point of safety grounding; and (g) the safety ground must, before it is disconnected from the point of safety grounding, be removed from the isolated electrical equipment in a manner that the employee avoids contact with all live conductors. (7) For the purposes of subsection (6), a point of safety grounding means a grounding bus, a station grounding network, a neutral conductor, a metal structure or an aerial ground. SOR/2019-246, s. 302
Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 189
189 In this Part, hot work means any work where flame is used or a source of ignition may be produced.
Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 190
190 If hot work is to be performed, (a) a qualified person must be assigned to patrol the working area and the adjoining areas and maintain a fire protection watch of the area for the duration of the work and, if necessary, as determined by the qualified person, for a period of 30 minutes after the work is completed; and (b) a sufficient number of fire extinguishers shall be provided in the working area and the adjoining areas. SOR/2021-122, s. 51
Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 191
191 Hot work must not be performed in a working area where (a) flammable gas, vapour or dust may be present in the atmosphere, unless the area has been freed of gas, tested by a marine chemist or other qualified person, and found to be safe for that work to be performed in the area; and (b) an explosive or flammable substance may be present in the working area, unless a marine chemist or other qualified person has ensured that adequate protection exists to permit that work to be safely performed in the area.
Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 192
192 (1) Electrical welding equipment cables and gas welding or burning equipment cylinders and pipes must be placed clear of areas used for vehicles unless adequate protection for the cables, cylinders and pipes is provided. (2) Gas cylinders of welding and burning equipment must be placed securely in an upright position when in use.
Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 193
193 Before equipment used for hot work is left unattended, the person in charge of the working area must ensure that the equipment is in a safe condition.
Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 194
194 If a hazardous substance may be produced in a work area as a result of hot work (a) the work area must be well ventilated; or (b) any person in the work area must wear respiratory protective equipment. SOR/2019-246, s. 304 SOR/2022-94, s. 15
Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 195
195 (1) The concentration of any chemical agent to which a person is likely to be exposed in a work area must not be more than (a) the value referred to in subsection 255(1); or (b) the percentage referred to in subsection 255(5). (2) The concentration in a work area of airborne hazardous substances, other than chemical agents, must not be hazardous to the health or safety of the person in the area. SOR/2019-246, s. 305
Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 196
196 The percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere in a working area must not be less than 19.5 per cent or more than 23 per cent by volume at normal atmospheric pressure and in no case is the partial pressure of oxygen to be less than 148 mm Hg.
Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 197
197 (1) If ventilation equipment is used to maintain the concentration of an airborne hazardous substance below or at the value or percentage referred to in section 195 or the percentage of oxygen in the air of a confined space within the limits referred to in section 196, the employer is prohibited from granting any person access to the work area, unless (a) the ventilation equipment is (i) equipped with an alarm that will, if the equipment fails, be activated automatically and be audible or visible to any person in the working area, or (ii) monitored by an employee who is in constant attendance at the equipment; and (b) in the event of a failure of the ventilation equipment, sufficient time will be available for a person to escape from the working area before one of the following occurs: (i) that person’s exposure to or the concentration of a hazardous substance in the work area is more than the value or percentage prescribed in section 195, or (ii) the percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere ceases to meet the requirements of section 196. (2) The employee referred to in subparagraph (1)(a)(ii) must activate an alarm in the event of faulty operation of the ventilation equipment. SOR/2019-246, s. 306