2022 Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health Act and Regulation

Protective headwear — workplaces that are not construction project sites
6.10(1) At a workplace that is not a construction project site, an employer
must provide a worker with protective headwear that is appropriate
for the risk and meets the requirements of CSA Z94.1-15, Industrial 
Protective Headwear — Performance, Selection, Care and Use or
ANSI Z89.1-2003, American National Standard for Industrial Head 
Protection, if there a risk of injury
(a) to the worker’s head, including a significant possibility of lateral
impact to the worker’s head; or
(b) to the worker from contact with an exposed energized electrical
conductor.
6.10(2) An employer required to provide a worker with protective headwear
must also provide a worker with
(a) a liner for that headwear, if it is necessary to protect the worker
from cold conditions; and
(b) a retention system to secure the protective headwear firmly to
the worker’s head, if the worker is likely to work in conditions
that may cause the headwear to dislodge.
6.10(3) Instead of complying with subsection (1), an employer may provide to
the worker a bump hat or other protective headwear appropriate for
the risk, if the risk of injury to a worker’s head is limited to injury to
the worker’s scalp.
M.R. 147/2010; 128/2019
Protective headwear — construction project site 
6.11(1) A worker at a construction project site must wear protective
headwear that meets the requirements of CSA Standard Z94.1-05,

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Industrial Protective Headwear — Performance, Selection, Care and 
Use or ANSI/ISEA Z89.1-2014 (R2019), American National Standard for 
Industrial Head Protection.
6.11(2) A worker is responsible for providing the protective headwear he or
she is required to wear under subsection (1) and, if necessary, is also
responsible for providing
(a) a liner for the headwear to protect the worker from cold
conditions; and
(b) a retention system to secure the headwear firmly to the worker’s
head, where the worker works in conditions that may cause the
headwear to dislodge.
M.R. 147/2010; 128/2019