2022 Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health Act and Regulation

Fixed ladders
13.20(1) An employer and an owner must ensure that a ladder that is
permanently fixed to a supporting building or structure
(a) is designed by a professional engineer, as is its permanent
attachment system to the building or structure;
(b) is constructed, erected and installed in accordance with the
specifications certified by a professional engineer;

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(c) is equipped with a suitable safety gate, or equally effective
means of protection from falling, at all access openings in floors,
platforms and rest platforms;
(d) where it is in a vertical position or at an angle of not more that
25° to the vertical, it
(i) meets the requirements of ANSI-ASC A14.3-2008 (R2018),
Ladders - Fixed - Safety Requirement,
(ii) has side rails that extend at least one metre above any
platform, roof or other landing on the building or structure
to which it is fixed,
(iii) has an opening in the platform, roof or other landing that
does not exceed 750 mm x 750 mm,
(iv) is equipped, if it is more than 5 m high, with a ladder cage
or a fall protection system that meets the requirements of
Part 14 (Fall Protection), and
(v) is equipped, if it is more than 9 m high, with one rest
platform at a height of 9 m or less and additional rest
platforms at intervals of not more than 5 m; and
(e) where it is fixed at an angle of more than 25° to the vertical or
more than one horizontal to two vertical, it is equipped with
(i) a handrail that extends its entire length and is between 800
mm and 920 mm above the front edge of the treads,
(ii) treads that are level and uniform in width and depth and in
the vertical distances between them throughout the length
of the ladder, and
(iii) on an open side, both a handrail and an intermediate rail
or equivalent safeguard.
13.20(2) Clause (1)(c) does not apply to
(a) a landing that is serviced by more than one fixed ladder; or
(b) a fixed ladder installed before the coming into force of this
regulation.
M.R. 128/2019

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