On Board Trains Occupational Safety and Health Regulations (SOR/87-184)

Regulations are current to 2013-05-20

SCHEDULE II

(Section 3.4)

LEVELS OF LIGHTING OFF ROLLING STOCK

ItemColumn IColumn II
AreaLevel in dalx
1.Areas where employees are engaged in the flagging, switching and marshalling of rolling stock5

PART IV

LEVELS OF SOUND

Interpretation

4.1 In this Part, “sound level meter” means an instrument for measuring levels of sound and impulse sound that meets the standards set out in American National Standards Institute Standard ANSI SI.4-1983, Specification for Sound Level Meters, dated February 17, 1983 and is referred to in that Standard as type 0, 1 or 2. (sonomètre)

Levels of Sound

  • 4.2 (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3) and section 4.3, the level of sound in a work place shall be less than 87 dB.

  • (2) Subject to subsection (3), where it is not reasonably practicable for an employer to maintain the level of sound in the work place at less than 87 dB, no employee shall be exposed in any 24 hour period

    • (a) to a level of sound referred to in Column I of an item of the schedule to this Part for a number of hours exceeding the number set out in Column II of that item; or

    • (b) to a number of different levels of sound referred to in Column I of an item of the schedule to this Part, where the sum of the following quotients exceeds 1:

      • (i) the number of hours of exposure to each level of sound

      divided by

      • (ii) the maximum number of hours of exposure per 24 hour period set out in Column II of that item.

  • (3) Where it is not reasonably practicable for an employer to maintain the exposure of an employee to a level of sound at or below the levels referred to in subsection (1) or (2), the employer shall

    • (a) make a report in writing to the regional safety officer setting out the reasons why the exposure cannot be so maintained; and

    • (b) provide every employee entering the work place with a hearing protector that

      • (i) meets the standards set out in CSA Standard Z94.2-M1984, Hearing Protectors, the English version of which is dated June, 1984 and the French version of which is dated February, 1985, and

      • (ii) reduces the level of sound reaching the employee’s ears to less than 87 dB.

  • SOR/95-105, s. 7.

4.3 Where the level of impulse sound in a work place exceeds 140 dB, the employer shall provide every employee entering the work place with a hearing protector that

  • (a) meets the standards set out in CSA Standard Z94.2-M1984, Hearing Protectors, the English version of which is dated June, 1984 and the French version of which is dated February, 1985; and

  • (b) reduces the peak level of impulse sound reaching the employee’s ears to 140 dB or less.

  • SOR/95-105, s. 61(F).