2022 Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health Act and Regulation

PART 36 
CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL 
SUBSTANCES
APPLICATION
Application
36.1
This Part applies to every workplace in which a chemical or
biological substance is present.
Input re threshold limit values
36.1.1 The director must seek input every three years respecting the
applicable threshold limit values.
M.R. 128/2019
ASSESSMENTS
Duty to assess chemical and biological substances
36.2(1) An employer must assess all information that is practicably
available to the employer respecting a chemical or biological
substance present in the workplace to determine if the substance
creates or may create a risk to the safety or health of a worker in
the workplace. The assessment must take place in consultation with
(a) the committee at the workplace;
(b) the representative at the workplace; or
(c) when there is no committee or representative, the workers at
the workplace.
36.2(2) An employer must reassess a chemical or biological substance in
accordance with the requirements of subsection (1) if
(a) there is a change
(i) in conditions in the workplace, or
(ii) in the health or physical condition of a worker known to
the employer; or
(b) new information about the substance becomes available to
the employer.

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SAFE WORK PROCEDURES
Safe work procedures 
36.3 
An employer must
(a) develop and implement safe work procedures respecting the
use, production, storage, handling and disposal of any chemical
or biological substance that an assessment under section 36.2
has determined creates or may create a risk to the safety or
health of a worker in that workplace;
(b) train workers in the safe work procedures; and
(c) ensure that workers comply with the safe work procedures.
CONTROL MEASURES 
FOR NON-AIRBORNE HAZARDS