Canada–Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Area Occupational Health and Safety Regulations (SOR/2021-247)

Marginal note:Removal from service

88 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.

Marginal note: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.

Marginal note: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.

Marginal note:Standards

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

  • (a) all equipment and machines conform to and are used in accordance with all applicable provisions of CSA Group standard Z432, Safeguarding of machinery;

  • (b) the starting and stopping controls of all equipment and machines are located within easy reach of the person operating the equipment or machine;

  • (c) all access doors on equipment or machines that expose moving parts when opened are, if feasible, equipped with interlocks that

    • (i) prevent the access door from opening while the moving parts are in motion, or

    • (ii) immediately disconnect the power from the driving mechanism when the door is opened, causing the moving parts to stop and preventing them from restarting until the door is closed;

  • (d) all controls on equipment, machines and devices are

    • (i) clearly marked with their functions in a manner and location that ensures the markings remain visible to the person operating the equipment, machine or device, and

    • (ii) designed, positioned or shielded to prevent inadvertent activation;

  • (e) all insulated equipment and devices are protected against damage to their insulating material;

  • (f) all portable hand-held motor-operated electric tools conform to CSA Group standard C22.2 No. 60745, Hand-Held Motor-Operated Electric Tools – Safety, or CSA Group standard C22.2 No. 62841, Electric motor-operated hand-held tools, transportable tools and lawn and garden machinery – Safety, as applicable;

  • (g) all powder-actuated fastening tools, fasteners and powder loads conform to and are used in accordance with ANSI/American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) standard A10.3, Safety Requirements for Powder-Actuated Fastening Systems, except with respect to the required eye protection, which must instead conform to paragraph 46(f);

  • (h) all power presses conform to and are used in accordance with CSA Group standard Z142, Code for power press operation: Health, safety, and safeguarding requirements;

  • (i) all electric tools that plug into an electrical receptacle are grounded, unless they

    • (i) have a protective system of double insulation, or

    • (ii) are used in a location where reliable grounding cannot be obtained and are supplied from a double-insulated portable ground fault circuit interrupter of the class A type that conforms to CSA Group standard C22.2 No. 144, Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters, on a 125-volt or 15-, 20- or 30-ampere circuit;

  • (j) all equipment, machines and devices that are a potential source of ignition are, if they are used in an area referred to in subsection 26(2), rated by their manufacturer as appropriate for use in such an area and used only with control measures in place to minimize the risk of fire or explosion;

  • (k) all hoses that contain a substance under pressure and that are connected to equipment or to a machine or device are equipped with restraining devices as necessary to prevent the hoses’ hazardous movement, including in the event of accidental disconnection;

  • (l) all abrasive blasting or high-pressure washing machines have operating controls that

    • (i) are located near the nozzle,

    • (ii) are hand-operated, and

    • (iii) require continuous pressure by the person operating them to permit the flow of material;

  • (m) all abrasive wheels are

    • (i) inspected by a competent person and determined to be free from defects, cracks or other problems before being installed,

    • (ii) mounted between flanges,

    • (iii) used only on machines that are equipped with machine guards, including, in the case of a bench grinder, a wheel guard and a work rest or other device that, without making contact with the abrasive wheel, prevents the work piece from jamming between the abrasive wheel and the wheel guard, and

    • (iv) used only on machines whose number 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.

• Marginal note: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.

Marginal note: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.

• Marginal note: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.

• Marginal note:Procedures

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

PART 19Elevators and Personnel Lifts

Marginal note: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.

• Marginal note: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.

• Marginal note:Inspection validity

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

• Marginal note: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.

Marginal note: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.

PART 20Ladders, Stairs and Ramps

Marginal note:Application

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

Marginal note: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.

Marginal note: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.

Marginal note: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.

• Marginal note: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.

Marginal note: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.