2022 Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health Act and Regulation

Power to require alternative work
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Where it appears to the director upon the advice of the chief
occupational medical officer that a worker has been over-exposed
to a harmful substance and that a temporary removal from the
hazard will enable the worker to resume his usual work, the director
may by order require the employer to provide without loss of pay
to the worker temporary alternative work which in the opinion of
the director is suitable, for such period of time as the director may
specify.

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The Workplace Safety And Health Act
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Requirement of occupational health service
53(1)
The minister may designate a workplace, or a class of workplaces, as
requiring an occupational health service, having regard to the type
of work being carried on therein, the number of workers employed
thereat, and the degree or uncertainty of hazard thereof; and upon
such designation, the employer shall cause an occupational health
service to be established and maintained for the workplace in
accordance with this section.
Minister may specify health services to be provided
53(2)
The minister may specify the services that are to be provided by the
occupational health service for any workplace, or for any class of
workplaces designated under subsection (1).
Continued operation of health service
53(3)
The establishment and continued operation of an occupational
health service is subject to the approval of the minister.
ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTIES
Administrative penalty
53.1(1) If a person
(a) has failed to comply with
(i) an improvement order within the period specified in the order, or
(ii) a prescribed provision of this Act or the regulations, and a safety
and health officer is of the opinion that the failure involves, or
is likely to involve, an imminent risk of serious physical or health
injury to a worker or other person;
(b) has failed to maintain compliance with an improvement order after
initially complying with it;
(c) has resumed an activity that previously was the subject of a stop
work order which was discontinued because the person had
complied with it; or
(d) was ordered to take action under section 42.1 because the person
took a reprisal against a worker;
the officer shall provide evidence of the matter to the director.