2022 Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health Act and Regulation

PART 34 
EXPLOSIVES
INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS
Application
34.1(1) This Part applies to every workplace where explosives are used.
34.1(2) Despite subsection (1), this Part does not apply to any class of work
that is covered by the Operation of Mines Regulation, Manitoba
Regulation 212/2011.
34.1(3) This Part is in addition to the regulations made under the
Explosives Act (Canada) and is to be read and applied as being
ancillary to it.
M.R. 128/2019
Safe work procedures
34.2(1) An employer must
(a) develop and implement safe work procedures for the use of
explosives, including procedures for removing any misfire;
(b) train blasters and other workers who may work in the vicinity
of blasting in those safe work procedures; and
(c) ensure that the blasters and other workers comply with those
safe work procedures.
34.2(2) The safe work procedures developed and implemented by the
employer must be consistent with the code of practice respecting
the safe use of explosives issued by the director.
CERTIFICATION OF BLASTERS
Classes of blasting
34.3 
The director may issue a blaster’s certificate for the following
classes of work:
(a) unlimited, under which a blaster may detonate explosives by
fuse and cap, a non-electrical detonation system or electrical
detonation, with no restriction on the number of shots or
series;
(b) fuse and cap with limited electrical, under which a blaster
may detonate a maximum blast of 50 shots by safety fuse and
cap assemblies, non-electrical detonation systems or electrical
detonators hooked up in a single series;

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(c) fuse and cap, under which a blaster may detonate a maximum
blast of 50 shots by safety fuse and cap assemblies or non-
electrical detonation systems;
(d) seismic, under which a blaster may detonate a single shot
electrical blast for seismic purposes;
(e) a class established by the director.