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PART 14
FALL PROTECTION
Application
14.1(1) This Part applies to every workplace where there is a risk of a worker
falling
(a) a vertical distance of 3 m or more;
(b) a vertical distance of less than 3 m where there is an increased
risk of injury due to the surface
or item on which the worker
might land;
(c) into operating machinery or moving parts of the machinery;
(d) into water or another liquid;
(e) into or onto a hazardous substance or object;
(f) through
an opening on a work surface; or
(g) a vertical distance of more than 1.2 m from an area used as a
path for a wheelbarrow or similar equipment.
14.1(2) Repealed, M.R. 147/2010.
M.R. 147/2010
Safe work procedures
14.2(1) An employer must
(a) develop and implement safe work procedures to prevent falls at
the workplace;
(b) train workers in the safe work procedures; and
(c) ensure that workers comply with the safe work procedures.
14.2(2) The safe work procedures must identify
the fall hazards at the
workplace and set out the measures that will be used to prevent falls
at the workplace.
14.2(3) When this Part requires the use of a guardrail system or fall
protection system at a workplace, the
safe work procedures must
address the following issues:
(a) the location of each guardrail system or fall protection system to
be used at the workplace;
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(b) the
procedures used to assemble, maintain, inspect, use and
disassemble a fall protection system;
(c)
where applicable, the rescue procedures to be used for rescuing
a worker after a fall has been arrested.
GUARDRAIL SYSTEMS
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