2022 Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health Act and Regulation

Fixed ladders re multi-level buildings
13.21
An employer and an owner must ensure that a fixed ladder that
complies with the requirements of section 13.20 is used to provide
access to every level of a multi-level building that is more than 4 m
above the preceding level.

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PART 14 
FALL PROTECTION
Application
14.1(1) This Part applies to every workplace where there is a risk of a worker
falling
(a) a vertical distance of 3 m or more;
(b) a vertical distance of less than 3 m where there is an increased
risk of injury due to the surface or item on which the worker
might land;
(c) into operating machinery or moving parts of the machinery;
(d) into water or another liquid;
(e) into or onto a hazardous substance or object;
(f) through an opening on a work surface; or
(g) a vertical distance of more than 1.2 m from an area used as a
path for a wheelbarrow or similar equipment.
14.1(2) Repealed, M.R. 147/2010.
M.R. 147/2010
Safe work procedures
14.2(1) An employer must
(a) develop and implement safe work procedures to prevent falls at
the workplace;
(b) train workers in the safe work procedures; and
(c) ensure that workers comply with the safe work procedures.
14.2(2) The safe work procedures must identify the fall hazards at the
workplace and set out the measures that will be used to prevent falls
at the workplace.
14.2(3) When this Part requires the use of a guardrail system or fall
protection system at a workplace, the safe work procedures must
address the following issues:
(a) the location of each guardrail system or fall protection system to
be used at the workplace;

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(b) the procedures used to assemble, maintain, inspect, use and
disassemble a fall protection system;
(c) where applicable, the rescue procedures to be used for rescuing
a worker after a fall has been arrested.
GUARDRAIL SYSTEMS