2022 Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health Act and Regulation

“Board” means The Manitoba Labour Board established under The Labour 
Relations Act; (« Commission »)
“branch” means the Workplace Safety and Health Branch; (« Direction »)
“chief occupational medical officer” means the person designated as Chief
Occupational Medical Officer under this Act; (« médecin du travail en chef »)
“committee” means a workplace safety and health committee established
under section 40; (« comité »)
“construction project” means
(a) the construction, demolition, repair, alteration or removal of
a structure, building, complex, street, road, highway, pipeline,
sewage system or electrical telecommunication or transmission
line,
(b) the digging of, working in or filling a trench or excavation,
(c) the installation, modification, repair or removal of any equipment
or machinery, or

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(d) any work prescribed by regulation as a construction project;
(« projet de construction »)
“construction project site” means a workplace where work is performed
on a construction project; (« chantier de construction »)
“contractor” means a person who, pursuant to one or more contracts,
directs the activities of one or more employers or self-employed persons
involved in work at a workplace; (« entrepreneur »)
“department” means such department of the government of Manitoba
as may be designated by the Lieutenant Governor in Council for the
purpose of this Act; (« ministère »)
“director” means the Director of the Workplace Safety and Health Branch
appointed under subsection 14(4.1); (« directeur »)
“employer” includes
(a) every person who, by himself or his agent or representative
employs or engages one or more workers, and
(b) the Crown and every agency of the government; (« employeur
»)
“health” means the condition of being sound in body, mind and spirit,
and shall be interpreted in accordance with the objects and purposes of
this Act; (« santé »)