2022 Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health Act and Regulation

Additional criteria: scaffolds of particular height
28.7
An employer must ensure that a scaffold is equipped with each of the
following that applies:
(a) if the scaffold platform is 3 m or more above the level a worker
may fall, the scaffold platform is equipped with a guardrail on
the open sides and ends of the platform that is in line with the
outer edge of the platform;
(b) if a scaffold is more than 6 m in height, it is equipped with a
suitable hoisting device for hoisting materials;

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(c) if a scaffold is 9 or more metres in height, it is equipped with
(i) an internal stairway or ladders, and
(ii) if any ladder under subclause (i) exceeds 3 m in height, the
ladder is equipped with fall protection attachments.
Characteristics: rope, wire rope and tiebacks
28.8(1) An employer must ensure that a rope or wire rope used in scaffolding
is
(a) protected against abrasion or other physical damage; and
(b) made of heat- or chemical-resistant material, if there is a
possibility of exposure to heat or chemicals.
28.8(2) Despite any other provision of this Part, an employer must ensure
that wire is not used in a tieback system for securing a scaffold to a
building or structure.
Platforms: secured and minimum width
28.9(1) An employer must ensure that a scaffold platform is secured to
prevent movement and is at least
(a) 500 mm wide nominally; or
(b) 1.5 m wide nominally, if it is used by workers who are
bricklayers, stonemasons, plasterers or a similar tradespeople,
and the scaffold is used to hold their immediate supply of
building materials.
28.9(2) Despite clause (1)(a), where a scaffold platform forms part of a lean-
to scaffold and consists of a commercially manufactured plank, the
platform must be at least 400 mm wide.