2022 Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health Act and Regulation

particular day; and
(c) ensuring that any component found to be defective is repaired
or replaced before the scaffold is used or is continued to be
used.

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Workers using scaffolds
28.13(1) An employer must ensure that
(a) no scaffold is loaded in excess of its rated load; and
(b) a worker who is permitted or required to work on a scaffold
(i) is informed of its rated load, and
(ii) does not carry any materials or equipment while climbing a
scaffold.
28.13(2) An employer must ensure that adequate overhead protection is
provided where any worker is required or permitted to work
(a) beneath the affected part of a scaffold that is being installed,
altered or dismantled; or
(b) where there is a risk of material falling on the worker who is
working on the scaffold platform or in the area of the scaffold.
PROVISIONS FOR PARTICULAR 
TYPES OF SCAFFOLDS
Lean-to scaffold 
28.14(1) An employer must ensure that a lean-to scaffold is not more than 5 m
above grade.
28.14(2) An employer must ensure that, if there is a risk that a worker using
a lean-to scaffold may fall three or more metres, the worker uses a
fall protection system that meets the requirements of Part 14 (Fall
Protection).
Ladder-jack scaffold 
28.15(1) An employer must ensure that a ladder-jack scaffold is not more
than 5 m above grade.
28.15(2) For a ladder-jack scaffold, an employer must ensure that it is
designed and constructed
(a) in compliance with the requirements of ANSI-ASSP A10.8-2019,
Scaffolding Safety Requirements; and
(b) so that it has ladders that are spaced not more than 2.5 m apart
and that it bears on
(i) both the side rails and the ladder rungs, or
(ii) the ladder rungs only, but only if the bearing area of each
rung is at least 254 mm.

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28.15(3) An employer must ensure that
(a) a ladder-jack scaffold is maintained in as level a position as
possible;
(b) no more than two workers are on a ladder-jack scaffold at any
one time; and
(c) if there is a risk that a worker using a ladder-jack scaffold may
fall three or more metres, the worker uses a fall protection
system that meets the requirements of Part 14 (Fall Protection).
M.R. 128/2019