2022 Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health Act and Regulation

Haulage locomotives
26.40(1) An employer must ensure that if a haulage locomotive is used in a
tunnel it is equipped with the following:
(a) a properly maintained braking system;
(b) interlock power controls that are operational from the driver’s
station only;
(c) an appropriate fire extinguisher.
26.40(2) An employer must ensure that track for haulage equipment is
(a) constructed in a straight manner and at a uniform height to the
established grade; and
(b) securely attached to the foundation ties.
Fire protection
26.41
An employer must ensure that there is an effective means for
extinguishing a fire in a shaft or tunnel.

---

Workplace Safety And Health Regulation
245
Removal of scrap materials 
26.42
An employer must ensure that scrap materials are removed at least
daily from, and not allowed to accumulate in, a shaft or tunnel.
Communication system
26.43(1) An employer must ensure that a shaft hoist has a communication
system available and working at all times between the hoist operator
and workers at landings in the shaft leading to a tunnel or an
underground space.
26.43(2) An employer must ensure that the communication system is used
during a hoisting operation.
Hoisting operations
26.44(1) An employer must ensure that only a competent person designated
by the employer operates hoisting equipment in a shaft or tunnel.
26.44(2) An employer must ensure that, at all times when a hoisting
operation is underway in a shaft or tunnel, a worker designated by
the employer is present at the top and the bottom of the shaft to
supervise the operation.
26.44(3) An employer must ensure that a worker only signals to hoist a
conveyance when the worker is on the landing from which the
conveyance is to move.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS