2022 Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health Act and Regulation

“SCBA” means self-contained breathing apparatus. (« ARA »)
“self-elevating work platform” means a work platform that can be self-
elevated, and includes a boom-type elevating work platform and one that
rolls or is self-propelled. (« plateforme de travail auto-élévatrice »)
“shaft” means a vertical or inclined opening that leads to an underground
work area and is excavated below ground level. (« puits d’accès »)
“shoring” means an assembly of structural members designed to prevent
earth or material from falling, sliding or rolling into an excavation.
(« étaiement »)
“sill” means a footing used to distribute the load from a vertical support or
a base plate of a scaffold to the ground. (« sole »)
“sound control measure” means an administrative or engineering control
introduced in the workplace to eliminate, control or reduce a worker’s
exposure to noise, including
(a) the replacement, modification or elimination of noisy
equipment;
(b) the modification of a building or structure; and
(c) the modification of any operation or work practice;
but does not include the use of any form of hearing protection worn by a
worker. (« mesure de protection contre le bruit »)
“strut” means a horizontal cross-member of shoring that directly resists
pressure. (« étrésillon »)
“support structure” means a structure or device designed to provide
protection to workers in an excavation, tunnel or shaft from cave-ins,
collapse, sliding or rolling materials, and includes shoring, bracing, piles,
planking and trench cages. (« ouvrage de soutènement »)
“suspended work platform” includes a swing stage, powered platform,
boatswain’s chair, personnel basket or cage or similar work platform that is
suspended by means of ropes or cables to reach an elevated worksite and
is used for supporting workers, equipment and materials. (« plateforme de
travail suspendue »)

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Workplace Safety And Health Regulation
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“tag-out” means the placement of a tag on a machine, tool or piece
of equipment that states that workers are not to start or operate the
machine, tool or piece of equipment. (« étiquetage »)