2022 Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health Act and Regulation

Rated load to be marked 
28.28 
An employer must ensure that
(a) the rated load of a suspended work platform is permanently
and legibly marked on the platform;
(b) a worker who is required to work on a suspended work
platform is informed of its rated load; and
(c) the suspended work platform is not loaded in excess of its rated
load.
Competent person to install, operate and inspect
28.29 
When a suspended work platform is to be used at a workplace, an
employer must

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(a) appoint one or more competent persons to install it, and once it
is installed, to operate it; and
(b) ensure that when it is in use, the platform and all of its
components, and any machine or equipment that is used to
hoist the platform, are inspected daily by a competent person.
Workers using suspended work platform
28.30
When a worker is required to use a suspended work platform, an
employer must ensure that
(a) there is one worker to operate each suspension when raising or
lowering the platform;
(b) the platform is maintained in as level a position as possible, and
in no case is it out of level by more than 10% of the platform’s
length;
(c) every worker on the platform is secured at all times to an
independent vertical lifeline that meets the requirements of
Part 14 (Fall Protection), so that the failure of the suspended
work platform will not cause a failure of the lifeline support
system;
(d) except in an emergency, a lifeline or a suspension rope of the
platform is not used by a worker as a means of access to or
egress from the platform; and
(e) where a boatswain’s chair is used, the worker is attached to
a separately secured lifeline that is independent of the chair
support system.