2022 Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health Act and Regulation

General design and use requirements 
28.6(1) An employer must ensure that a scaffold
(a) can safely support, and its footing, sills and similar supports can
support without undue settlement or deformation, at least four
times the maximum load that will be or is likely to be imposed
on it;
(b) if partially or fully enclosed, has components and tie-ins that are
adequate to support any added load that may be imposed on it
by wind, wind gusts or other environmental conditions;
(c) is installed plumb and is stabilized by
(i) having its vertical and horizontal members braced to
prevent lateral movement,

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(ii) being anchored and securely guyed or tied back to the
building or structure, or to a fixed support, at the intervals
recommended
(A) by a professional engineer, if the scaffold was
designed by a professional engineer, or
(B) by the manufacturer, if the scaffold was commercially
manufactured,
but in no case at vertical and horizontal intervals of more
than three times the minimum lateral dimension of the
scaffold;
(d) is equipped with
(i) a ladder, stair, runway or ramp that provides a worker
with a safe means of access to and egress from the scaffold
platform, and
(ii) toe-boards on the open sides of the scaffold platform,
where there is a risk of tools, materials, equipment and
debris falling from the platform or a worker slipping off
the platform; and
(e) has all openings, including stairway openings, appropriately
guarded.
28.6(2) For the purposes of clause (1)(a), the maximum load of a scaffold is to
be determined in reference to the actual weight of all the scaffold’s
components combined with the following loads that will be or are
likely to be imposed on it:
(a) the actual weight of the workers using it, including their tools,
materials and equipment;
(b) wind, wind gusts and other environmental conditions.