2022 Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health Act and Regulation

Training and compliance
14.26
When an employer implements an alternate safe work procedure
under section 14.24 or 14.25, the employer must
(a) provide information, instruction and training on the safe work
procedures to workers; and
(b) ensure that workers comply with the safe work procedures.
BUILDING REQUIREMENTS
Required roof protection
14.27(1) The owner of a building that is more than five storeys tall or 15 m
in height that is constructed after the coming into force of this
regulation must either
(a) provide a permanent perimeter guardrail system that meets the
requirements of this Part; or
(b) provide roof-level protection consisting of
(i) a continuous parapet or fencing not less than 900 mm in
height, or
(ii) a system of lifeline anchors with one anchor set back a
minimum of 3 m from the edge of the roof for every six
linear metres of unprotected roof edge.
14.27(2) When roof-level protection on a building consists of a system of
lifeline anchors, the owner of the building must ensure that
(a) each lifeline anchor is

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(i) capable of resisting a force of 22.2 kN in any direction in
which the load may be applied for each worker attached,
and
(ii) made of stainless steel or other material resistant to
corrosion;
(b) the anchorage system is certified by a professional engineer as
having the required load capacity; and
(c) where an eyebolt is used as an anchor, that the interior opening
of the eye measures at least 38 mm.
Steel frame building requirements
14.28
During the construction of a steel frame building, the owner of the
building and the prime contractor responsible for the construction
of the building must ensure that the structural components of the
building designed to accommodate a fall protection system
(a) are designed, approved and certified as safe by a professional
engineer; and
(b) include
(i) double connections at each column and at beam webs over
a column,
(ii) at least four anchor bolts per column, and
(iii) perimeter columns that extend at least one metre above
the finished floor to permit the installation of perimeter
safety cables.