2022 Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health Act and Regulation

Inspection and certification
28.34(2) An employer must ensure that the professional engineer who
designed the personnel basket or cage
(a) inspects it before its first use; and
(b) certifies that it has been manufactured in accordance with his or
her design specifications.
M.R. 128/2019
Crane requirements and documentation
28.35(1) An employer must ensure that a crane used to hoist a personnel
basket or cage
(a) is equipped with
(i) fail-safe mechanisms that prevent the boom and the
personnel basket or cage from free falling in the event of
a power or system failure or the inadvertent release of any
operating controls, and
(ii) an automatic limit switch that prevents the personnel
basket or cage and load from reaching beyond the highest
permissible position specified by the crane manufacturer;
(b) has, on its hoist line, hooks that are equipped with self-closing
safety latches at the point where the personnel basket or cage is
suspended;
(c) is not used to hoist material when the personnel basket or cage
is being used to support a worker;
(d) is not loaded in excess of 25% of its rated load; and
(e) has a clearly visible and legible load chart, revised in accordance
with clause (d) by a professional engineer, that is affixed in a
conspicuous place on the crane.
28.35(2) An employer must keep all design drawings, test reports, written
statements and certification documents required under this section
and section 23.34 with the crane at all times during a hoisting
operation.

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Operating requirements
28.36 
When a crane is used to hoist a personnel basket or cage, an
employer must ensure that
(a) emergency rescue procedures are developed and implemented
for the hoisting operation;
(b) the workers involved in the hoisting operation are informed of
those emergency rescue procedures;
(c) there is an adequate means of communication between the
worker or workers in the personnel basket or cage and the
crane operator; and
(d) every worker in the personnel basket or cage
(i) wears a full body harness that is connected independently
to a fixed anchor point located above the crane’s load
hook, and
(ii) uses the harness in accordance with Part 14 (Fall
Protection).
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