2022 Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health Act and Regulation

PART 6 
PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT
GENERAL
Personal protective equipment required
6.1
An employer must ensure that a worker wears and uses personal
protective equipment at the following times:
(a) when required to do so under subsection 2.1(3);
(b) in any of the circumstances described in sections 6.7 to 6.18;
(c) in the event of an emergency in the workplace, including a spill
or discharge of a hazardous substance.
M.R. 147/2010
Safe work procedures
6.2(1)
An employer must
(a) develop and implement safe work procedures for the use of
personal protective equipment in the workplace;
(b) train workers in those safe work procedures; and
(c) ensure that workers comply with those safe work procedures.
6.2(2)
If the manufacturer of personal protective equipment has established
safe work procedures for the equipment’s use, an employer must
ensure that the safe work procedures developed and implemented
under clause (1)(a) are not inconsistent with those established by the
manufacturer.
Employer obligations re protective equipment
6.3 
If personal protective equipment is required to be worn or used in
the workplace, an employer must
(a) provide a worker, at no cost, the equipment appropriate for the
risks associated with the workplace and the work;
(b) ensure that the equipment is
(i) stored in a location that isclean, secure, and readily
accessible by the worker,
(ii) immediately repaired or replaced if it is defective, and

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(iii) immediately replaced with clean or decontaminated
equipment if it is rendered ineffective because of
contamination with a hazardous substance; and
(c) make, so far as is reasonably practicable, appropriate
adjustments to the work procedures and rate of work to
eliminate or reduce any risk to the safety or health of a worker
that may arise from the worker’s use of the equipment.