Marginal note:Stairs, ramps and fixed laddersĩ8 (1) Every employer must ensure that all stairs, ramps and fixed ladders that are installed at each workplace under its control, as well as all cages, landings and platforms used with the fixed ladders, are designed and maintained to support any load that is likely to be imposed on them and to safely accommodate all persons who are likely to use them and all equipment that is likely to pass over them. PART 20 Ladders, Stairs and Rampsĩ5 This Part applies in respect of a workplace that is a marine installation or structure.ĩ6 For the purposes of this Part, any reference to stairs includes a permanently installed structure, commonly known as a ship’s ladder, that has a steep pitch, rigid treads supported by rigid side rails and a handrail on each side.ĩ7 If an employee in the course of routine work is required to move between levels that are more than 45 cm apart, the employer with control over the workplace must ensure that a fixed ladder, fixed stairs or a fixed ramp is installed between the levels. (4) The employer must ensure that the person who inspects an elevator or personnel lift includes in the record referred to in paragraph 87(1)(f) the date on which the inspection ceases to be valid.ĩ4 Every employer must ensure that a document is posted in each elevator at a workplace under its control that identifies the elevator and its location, indicates its capacity and sets out the date on which its most recent inspection ceases to be valid. (3) An inspection ceases to be valid one year after the day on which it is carried out. (b) after any alteration to the elevator or personnel lift and (a) before the elevator or personnel lift is placed in or returned to service (2) The employer must ensure that every elevator and personnel lift is inspected and tested (3) Every employer must develop procedures to be followed respecting the fuelling of equipment to protect the health and safety of employees.ĩ3 (1) Every employer must ensure that each elevator at a workplace under its control is designed, maintained, tested, inspected and used in accordance with ASME standard A17.1/CSA Group standard B44, Safety code for elevators and escalators, and that each personnel lift at a workplace under its control is designed, installed, maintained, tested, inspected and used in accordance with CSA Group standard CAN/CSA-B311, Safety Code for Manlifts. (e) atmospheric gas levels in the hold or space are continuously monitored. (d) no more fuel than is necessary to fill the equipment’s fuel tank - or, in the case of liquefied gas, no more than the number of cylinders in need of replacement - is taken into the hold or space and (c) the fuelling is carried out by transferring fuel directly into the equipment’s fuel tank or, in the case of liquefied gas, by replacing spent cylinders (b) no one other than the employee referred to in paragraph (a) and those employees engaged in the fuelling are in the hold or space (a) an employee who has a suitable fire extinguisher ready for use is in the hold or space (2) Despite subparagraph (1)(a)(ii), equipment may be fuelled in the hold of a vessel or another enclosed space if (ii) in the case of equipment, while the equipment’s engine is running, unless it is designed to be fuelled in that manner. (i) subject to subparagraph (ii), while there is any source of ignition in the vicinity that presents a risk of fire or explosion, or (ii) the hold of a vessel or any other enclosed space at the workplace or (i) a place where the vapours from the fuel are not readily dissipated, or PART 18 Equipment, Machines and Devices (continued)ĩ2 (1) Every employer must ensure that no equipment or machine at a workplace under its control is fuelled, and no fuel is transferred between containers,
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