2022 Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health Act and Regulation

Inspection
28.44 
An employer must ensure that a competent person inspects a self-
elevating work platform or aerial device before it is first used and
daily when it is in use.
FORKLIFT-MOUNTED WORK PLATFORMS
Design and construction 
28.45
An employer must ensure that an elevated work platform mounted
on a forklift
(a) is commercially manufactured or constructed in accordance with
the specifications certified by a professional engineer;
(b) is designed by the manufacturer of the forklift or a professional
engineer to support safely the load that it is expected to
support;

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(c) is equipped with guardrails and toe-boards that meet the
requirements of Part 14 (Fall Protection);
(d) is equipped with a screen or similar barrier along the edge of
the platform adjacent to the mast of the forklift to prevent
a worker from coming into contact with the mast drive
mechanism;
(e) has a skid-resistant deck;
(f) has the following legibly and permanently marked in a
conspicuous place on it:
(i) the maximum number of workers who may occupy the
platform,
(ii) the weight of the platform and its rated load,
(iii) the forklift type for which it has been designed,
(iv) any other information necessary for its safe operation; and
(g) is securely attached to the forks and carriage of the forklift.
Use of forklift-mounted work platform
28.46 
When a worker is on a work platform mounted on a forklift, an
employer must ensure that
(a) the forklift is on a stable, level surface, unless it is a rough
terrain forklift; and
(b) the operator of the forklift remains at its controls when the
platform and the forklift are in the elevated position.