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Canada–Nova Scotia Offshore Area Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 89
Hair, clothing and accessories 89 Every employer must ensure that all persons at each workplace under its control not wear long hair, loose-fitting clothing, dangling accessories, jewellery or other similar items unless those items are tied, covered or otherwise secured as necessary to prevent them from coming into contact with equipment or machines or from otherwise presenting a risk to health or safety.
Canada–Nova Scotia Offshore Area Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 90
Pedestrian passage 90 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.
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 of revolutions per minute does not exceed the maximum speed rating of the abrasive wheel; (n) all equipment and machines whose operation may cause the ejection of material that may pose a hazard to a person are, if feasible, equipped with a means of safely containing the material; (o) all equipment and machines that have exposed moving, electrically charged or hot parts or that process, transport or handle material that constitutes a hazard are, if feasible, equipped with (i) a guard that is not readily removable without the use of tools and that physically prevents persons from coming into contact with the parts or material or from being exposed to the hazard they present, or (ii) if rendering the equipment or machine inoperative would minimize the hazard, a device that renders the equipment or machine inoperative if a person or their clothing comes into contact with or comes too close to a part of the equipment or machine that is likely to cause injury; (p) all wire rope in tension, other than on a crane or hoist, is protected by a guard, if feasible; and (q) if the workplace is a marine installation or structure, all temporary or portable heating equipment that is used in an enclosed area (i) provides complete combustion of the fuel used in it or is equipped with an exhaust system that discharges the products of combustion outside the enclosed area, and (ii) is used only while carbon monoxide levels in the enclosed area are being continuously monitored. 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.
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Fuelling 92 (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, (a) in the following locations: (i) a place where the vapours from the fuel are not readily dissipated, or (ii) the hold of a vessel or any other enclosed space at the workplace; or (b) in the following circumstances: (i) subject to subparagraph (ii), while there is any source of ignition in the vicinity that presents a risk of fire or explosion, or (ii) in the case of equipment, while the equipment’s engine is running, unless it is designed to be fuelled in that manner. Exception (2) Despite subparagraph (1)(a)(ii), equipment may be fuelled in the hold of a vessel or another enclosed space if (a) an employee who has a suitable fire extinguisher ready for use is in the hold or space; (b) no one other than the employee referred to in paragraph (a) and those employees engaged in the fuelling are in the hold or space; (c) the fuelling is carried out by transferring fuel directly into the equipment’s fuel tank or, in the case of liquefied gas, by replacing spent cylinders; (d) no more fuel than is necessary to fill the equipment’s fuel tank — or, in the case of liquefied gas, no more than the number of cylinders in need of replacement — is taken into the hold or space; and (e) atmospheric gas levels in the hold or space are continuously monitored. Procedures (3) Every employer must develop procedures to be followed respecting the fuelling of equipment to protect the health and safety of employees.
Canada–Nova Scotia Offshore Area Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 93
Standards 93 (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 (a) before the elevator or personnel lift is placed in or returned to service; (b) after any alteration to the elevator or personnel lift; and (c) at least once a year. 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 87 (1)(f) the date on which the inspection ceases to be valid.
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Elevator documentation 94 Every employer must ensure that a document is posted in each elevator at a workplace under its control that identifies the elevator and its location, indicates its capacity and sets out the date on which its most recent inspection ceases to be valid.
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Application 95 This Part applies in respect of a workplace that is a marine installation or structure.
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Ship’s ladder 96 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.
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Requirement to install 97 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.
Canada–Nova Scotia Offshore Area Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 98
Stairs, ramps and fixed ladders 98 (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 to protect persons using the stairs, ramp or ladder from that hazard.
Canada–Nova Scotia Offshore Area Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 99
Temporary stairs 99 Every employer must ensure that all temporary stairs installed at a workplace under its control are securely fastened in place and have (a) uniform steps in the same flight; (b) a slope of not more than 1.2 to 1; and (c) a hand rail not less than 90 cm and not more than 1.1 m above the stair level (i) on at least one side, and on every open side, if the stairs are not more than 1.12 m wide, or (ii) on both sides, if the stairs are more than 1.12 m wide.
Canada–Nova Scotia Offshore Area Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 100
Ramps 100 Every employer must ensure that every ramp installed at a workplace under its control is (a) securely fastened in place; (b) braced if necessary to ensure its stability; and (c) equipped with cleats or surfaced in a manner that provides a safe footing for users.
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Fixed ladders 101 (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, (a) is installed with its underside angled not less than 75 degrees and not more than 90 degrees from the ground; (b) is securely held in place at the top and bottom and at intervals of not more than 3 m; (c) has rungs that are at least 15 cm from the wall, at uniformly spaced intervals of not more than 30 cm, and do not impede any employee from safely exiting the ladder onto a platform or landing; (d) has side rails that extend not less than 90 cm above each landing or platform; (e) is not coated with material that may hide flaws affecting its integrity; (f) if it is more than 6 m in length, is fitted, if feasible, with a protective cage for the portion of its length that is more than 2.5 m above its bottom; and (g) if it is more than 9 m in length, is equipped with landings or platforms, at intervals of no more than 6 m, that are (i) at least 0.36 m 2 in area, and (ii) fitted at their outer edges with a guard-rail and toe board. Use (2) While ascending or descending a fixed ladder at a workplace, every employee must (a) face the ladder; (b) maintain a three-point contact with the ladder; and (c) carry any tools, equipment or materials in a pouch or holster or in another secure manner. 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.
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Portable ladders 102 (1) Every employer must ensure that any portable ladder used at a workplace under its control (a) conforms to CSA Group standard Z11, Portable ladders ; (b) has a minimum load rating of 113.4 kg; (c) if used, other than as part of a scaffold system, on a marine installation or structure that is used for the drilling for or production of petroleum products, is made of a non-combustible material; and (d) is not coated with material that may hide flaws affecting its integrity. 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, (a) it is placed on a firm and stable footing and positioned so that it is not necessary to use the underside; (b) it is secured in such a manner that it cannot be dislodged accidentally from its position; and (c) unless it is a self-supporting ladder, the upper portion of its side rails rests on a bearing surface capable of safely withstanding the load imposed on it. Prohibitions (3) An employee must not (a) position a portable ladder in an elevator shaft or hoistway when that space is being used for hoisting; (b) position a portable ladder near moving equipment that is under a load; (c) use a portable ladder in a manner that may compromise its stability or the stability of any person on it; or (d) use a metal or wire-bound portable ladder if there is a risk of it coming into contact with an energized electrical conductor or circuit part or with energized electrical equipment.
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Definition of elevating work platform 103 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.
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Use — general 104 (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 (a) the employer has authorized its use; (b) the employee has been trained and instructed in its safe and proper use; and (c) it has been inspected and certified by a competent person as being fit for the use to which the employee intends to put it. 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 its use in those conditions is necessary to remove a hazard or rescue a person.
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Prevention of contact 105 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.
Canada–Nova Scotia Offshore Area Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 106
Scaffolds 106 (1) Every employer must ensure, with respect to any scaffold used at a workplace under its control, that (a) its configuration at the workplace is designed by a competent person; (b) it is erected, used, inspected, dismantled and stored in accordance with CSA Group standard CAN/CSA-Z797, Code of practice for access scaffold ; (c) if used to support a temporary floor or subjected to loads that could cause it to overturn, it is erected and used in accordance with written instructions approved by a professional engineer; (d) either it is capable of supporting at least four times the load that is likely to be imposed on it or it has been approved by a professional engineer and consists of components that have been manufactured in accordance with a quality management system; (e) its footings and supports are capable of supporting all static and dynamic loads that are likely to be imposed on them; (f) to the extent feasible, it uses only manufactured platforms; (g) its platforms or planks are adequately secured and installed in a manner that avoids gaps and overlapping; (h) all of its wooden components are treated with a transparent fire retardant coating and are stored and maintained so that their integrity and fire retardant properties are preserved; (i) all of its components are compatible with each other; (j) if it is a continuous run scaffold or a double-pole tube and coupler scaffold, it has internal horizontal cross-bracing installed in the bay immediately adjacent to and at the level of a building tie, unless equivalent bracing is achieved using manufactured scaffold planks secured by end hooks to provide a fully decked work platform at that level; and (k) any vertical ladder more than 9 m in length that is used with it has a landing or platform at least every 6 m. Ladder jack scaffold (2) Every employer must ensure that no ladder jack scaffold is used at a workplace under its control.
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Elevating work platforms 107 Every employer must ensure, with respect to any elevating work platform at a workplace under its control, that (a) its rated capacity is marked on it in a location that is clearly visible to any person using it; (b) it is equipped with controls of a continuous pressure type that return to the neutral or stop position when released; (c) it is equipped with an emergency stop device that is red in colour and located within easy reach of the person operating it; (d) if its lifting mechanism creates a shear hazard to employees, that mechanism is adequately guarded or identified with signs, decals or similar markings warning of the hazard; and (e) if it is self-propelled or mobile, it is used only with the approval of the Chief Safety Officer.
Canada–Nova Scotia Offshore Area Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 108
Risk of falling 108 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: (a) 3 m or more above the nearest safe surface or above water; (b) any distance above a surface or thing that could cause injury or illness to the person; or (c) a portable ladder, if (i) there are high wind or wave conditions, (ii) the person is performing a task that does not permit them to maintain their centre of gravity between the ladder’s side rails, (iii) the person is performing a task that is not a light duty task, or (iv) the person is performing a task for more than a short duration at any one location.
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location, and (ii) used in a manner that (A) minimizes the hazards of swinging, and (B) limits the distance that a user who fell would drop to less than 1.2 m; and (c) any lanyard used in a fall-arrest system is equipped with an energy absorber, unless (i) the lifeline used is self-retracting, or (ii) the fall-arrest system is designed by a competent person to (A) limit the free fall to less than 1.2 m and the arresting force to less than 4 kN, and (B) prevent the user from coming into contact with any unsafe surface.
Canada–Nova Scotia Offshore Area Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 110
Rope access 110 (1) Despite subsections 109 (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 (3), to the IRATA International code of practice for industrial rope access , published by the Industrial Rope Access Trade Association. Interpretation of code (2) For the purpose of subsection (1), 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 (3) A requirement in the code to conform to a standard in respect of equipment is satisfied by instead conforming, as applicable, to (a) CSA Group standard Z259.1, Body belts and saddles for work positioning and travel restraint ; (b) CSA Group standard Z259.10, Full body harnesses ; (c) CSA Group standard Z259.11, Personal energy absorbers and lanyards ; (d) CSA Group standard Z259.12, Connecting components for personal fall-arrest systems (PFAS) ; (e) European Committee for Standardization (CEN) standard EN 567, Mountaineering equipment – Rope clamps – Safety requirements and test methods ; or (f) European Committee for Standardization (CEN) standard EN 353-2, Personal protective equipment against falls from a height – Part 2: Guided type fall arresters including a flexible anchor line . Headwear (4) 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 (a) CSA Group standard Z94.1, Industrial protective headwear – Performance, selection, care, and use ; (b) ANSI/International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA) standard Z89.1, American National Standard for Industrial Head Protection ; or (c) European Committee for Standardization (CEN) standard EN 12492, Mountaineering equipment – Helmets for mountaineers – Safety requirements and test methods . Definition of rope access (5) 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.
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Work permit 111 A work permit is required for any activity at a workplace that requires the use of a fall-arrest system or travel restraint system.
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Instruction and training 112 (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 (a) an overview of the provisions of all applicable health and safety legislation and standards that relate to fall protection, including those relating to the roles and responsibilities of workplace parties; (b) training on the identification of fall hazards; (c) an overview of the hierarchy of controls that may be used to minimize the risk of falling and of injury from a fall; (d) training on the different means of fall protection and the most suitable application of each; (e) instruction on selecting all relevant components of the fall-arrest system or travel restraint system, including connecting hardware; (f) instruction on assessing and selecting specific anchors for use with the fall-arrest system or travel restraint system; (g) training on the effects on the human body of a fall — including free fall and swing fall — and fall-arrest, which must address maximum arresting force and the purpose of energy absorbers; (h) instruction and training on the use, storage, maintenance and inspection — including pre-use inspection — of fall-arrest systems, travel restraint systems and their components, including practice in inspecting, fitting, adjusting and connecting the systems and components; and (i) instruction and training on emergency response procedures to be used if a fall occurs, including practice in carrying them out. Timing (2) The instruction and training must be provided (a) before the work that requires the use of the fall-arrest system or travel restraint system begins; and (b) at least once every three years.
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Risk of injury 113 (1) The risk of injury from falling objects and material at the workplace, whether they are falling over or from a height, 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 (a) the objects or material are fastened to something in a manner that would, if they were to fall, prevent them from reaching a person below; (b) a safety net is positioned below the raised area to catch the objects or material; or (c) the area below and adjacent to the raised area is barricaded so that no person may enter it while work is underway.
Canada–Nova Scotia Offshore Area Occupational Health and Safety Regulations — 114
Definitions 114 The following definitions apply in this Part. personnel transfer means the transfer by crane of persons 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 )