2022 Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health Act and Regulation

Work area below a suspended work platform
28.31 
When a suspended work platform is in use, an employer must ensure
that
(a) the work area below the platform is roped off or barricaded in a
suitable manner; and
(b) warning signs are posted in a conspicuous location to advise
persons of the overhead hazard.
Bridging not to be used
28.32 
An employer must ensure that two or more suspended work
platforms are not bridged together by the use of planks or any other
connection.

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WHEN CRANE USED TO SUSPEND 
A PERSONNEL BASKET OR CAGE
General restriction re use of crane
28.33(1) An employer may only permit a crane to be used to hoist a personnel
basket or cage where it is not reasonably practicable to carry out the
required work by use of a scaffold or other type of elevated work
platform that does not include the use of a crane.
28.33(2) The prior notification requirements of section 28.22 apply whenever
a crane is used to hoist a personnel basket or cage, regardless of the
height of the hoisting operation.
Basket or cage requirements when crane used
28.34(1) Despite section 28.21, when a crane is used to hoist a personnel basket
or cage, an employer must ensure that the personnel basket or cage
(a) is designed by a professional engineer in accordance with CAN/
CSA Z150-16, Safety Code on Mobile Cranes, and is constructed
in accordance with the design specifications certified by the
engineer;
(b) is equipped with
(i) anchor points located above the load hook of the personnel
basket or cage for the attachment of a worker’s fall arrest
system,
(ii) a guardrail that meets the requirements of Part 14 (Fall
Protection), and
(iii) a skid resistant deck;
(c) has more than one means of suspension or support, and is
designed, constructed and maintained so that the failure of one
of the means will not cause the collapse of all or part of it;
(d) is designed and constructed so that it remains horizontal at all
times;
(e) is suspended from, or supported by, a direct attachment to the
boom of the crane; and
(f) has the following legibly and permanently marked in a
conspicuous place on it:
(i) the maximum number of workers who may occupy the
personnel basket or cage,

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(ii) its weight,
(iii) the crane type for which it has been designed,
(iv) any other information necessary for safe operation of the
personnel basket or cage.