2022 Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health Act and Regulation

Requirement for ROPS
22.25(1) Unless equipped with a rollover protective structure that meets
the requirements of this section, no person may operate, and no
employer may authorize or permit a worker to operate,
(a) the following types of powered mobile equipment with a
machine mass of 700 kg or more:
(i) a tractor,

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(ii) a motor grader,
(iii) a prime mover,
(iv) a skidder,
(v) a tracked dozer or loader,
(vi) a wheeled dozer or loader;
(b) the following types of powered mobile equipment with a
machine mass of 2,700 kg or more:
(i) a compactor,
(ii) a roller; or
(c) powered mobile equipment that is an agricultural tractor with
engine power greater than 15 kW.
22.25(2) Where a rollover protective structure is required to be provided
under subsection (1), the employer and the supplier of powered
mobile equipment must ensure that the equipment is equipped with
a rollover protective structure that
(a) if commercially manufactured, complies with the applicable
requirements of
(i) CSA B352.0-16, Rollover protective structures (ROPS), falling 
object protective structures (FOPS), operator protective 
structures (OPS), and tip-over protective structures (TOPS) 
for mobile machinery - General Canadian requirements,
and
(A) CSA B352.1-95 (R2006), Rollover Protective Structures 
(ROPS) for Agricultural, Construction, Earthmoving, 
Forestry, Industrial, and Mining Machines - Part 
2: Testing Requirements for ROPS on Agricultural 
Tractors, or
(B) CSA B352.2-95 (R2006), Rollover Protective Structures 
(ROPS) for Agricultural, Construction, Earthmoving, 
Forestry, Industrial, and Mining Machines - Part 3: 
Testing Requirements for ROPS on Construction, 
Earthmoving, Forestry, Industrial, and Mining 
Machines,
(ii) SAE Standard J1042_201206, Operator Protection for 
General-Purpose Industrial Machines,

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(iii) SAE Standard J1194_201611, Rollover Protective Structures 
(ROPS) for Wheeled Agricultural Tractors,
(iv) ISO 3471:2008, Earth-moving machinery - Roll-over 
protective structures - Laboratory tests and performance 
requirements, or
(v) a predecessor of a standard described in this clause that
was in effect when the powered mobile equipment was
manufactured; or
(b) if not commercially manufactured, is designed by a professional
engineer and constructed and maintained so that when the
equipment on which it is installed is travelling at a forward
speed of 16 km/h, engages a 30° slope and rolls 360° about the
longitudinal axis on a hard clay surface,
(i) the rollover protective structure will withstand the impact
forces,
(ii) upon impact, no part of the rollover protective structure
will enter the space of the equipment that is normally used
by the operator, and
(iii) the rollover protective structure will support the equipment
when the equipment is upside down.