Workplace Safety And Health Regulation
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(b) ensure that the worker wears the jacket or device at all times
while working, except where
(i) there are other sufficient measures
in place to protect a
worker from the risk of drowning, or
(ii) the personal flotation device or life jacket would be
ineffective or unreasonable;
(c)
ensure that, when a worker is permitted to not wear a life
jacket or personal flotation device under clause (b), the jacket or
device is kept within immediate reach of the worker;
(d) ensure the worker is provided
with and wears appropriate
personal protective equipment suitable to the workplace
situation which protect the worker from hypothermia if
rescue or removal from cold or icy water may not be achieved
immediately;
(e) ensure that the following rescue equipment is readily available:
i)
a buoyant apparatus
attached to a nylon rope, where the
rope is not less than 9 mm in diameter and not less than
15 m in length,
(ii) a notification
or signalling device,
(iii) an appropriately powered boat equipped with a boathook,
in the case of work performed in, on or above a navigable
body
of water; and
(f) ensure that a sufficient number of properly equipped and
trained rescue personnel are readily available to undertake a
rescue in the event one is required.
6.17(2) Clauses (1)(e) and (f) do not apply where workers are working on a
boat.
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