2022 Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health Act and Regulation

Requirements re covered walkway 
20.3 
An employer must ensure that, when a pedestrian walkway is
required to be covered under section 20.2,
(a) the cover of the pedestrian walkway
(i) is wide enough to completely cover the pedestrian
walkway,
(ii) is installed at such a height as to provide at least 2.4 m of
unobstructed passage beneath it,
(iii) is capable of supporting any load that is likely to be
imposed on it, but in no circumstances less than 2.4 kN per
square metre, and
(iv) provides a weather-tight roof; and
(b) the covered walkway has
(i) a partition that covers the side adjacent to the construction
project site,
(ii) where it is adjacent to a street, a railing one metre high
from ground level on the street side, and
(iii) adequate lighting.

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Fencing
20.4 
An employer must ensure that a fence at least one metre in height
is installed and maintained on any perimeter side of a construction
project site where there is a risk to the safety or health of a person
travelling — whether by walking or by vehicle — adjacent to the site.
Safe work procedures: traffic control
20.5(1) Whenever the movement of vehicular traffic constitutes a risk to the
safety or health of a worker, an employer must
(a) develop and implement safe work procedures that provide an
effective means of traffic control;
(b) train workers in those safe work procedures; and
(c) ensure that workers comply with those safe work procedures.
20.5(2) Without limiting subsection (1), if vehicular traffic creates a risk to
the safety or health of a worker, an employer must ensure that one
or more of the following are used to protect the worker:
(a) warning signs;
(b) barriers;
(c) lane control devices;
(d) flashing lights;
(e) flares;
(f) conspicuously identified pilot vehicles;
(g) automatic or remote controlled traffic control systems;
(h) speed restrictions;
(i) one or more workers who are designated and act as flagpersons,
in accordance with section 20.6.