Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations (SOR/2010-120)

146. If persons granted access to a work place are regularly exposed to the risk of coming into contact with moving vehicles during their work, the employer must ensure that they wear a high-visibility vest or other similar clothing that is readily visible under all conditions of use or that they are protected by a barricade that is readily visible under all conditions of use.

• 147. (1) If, in a work place, there is a hazard of drowning, as a result of work activities, other than vessel abandonment drills, the employer must provide every person granted access to the work place with

  • (a) a life jacket or other flotation device that meets the buoyancy standards set out in

    • (i) the Canadian General Standards Board (CGSB) Standard CAN/CGSB-65.7-2007, Life Jackets; or

    • (ii) Regulation 2 of Part 1 to IMO Resolution MSC.81(70), adopted on December 11, 1998 and entitled Revised Recommendation on Testing of Life-Saving Appliances; or

  • (b) a safety net or a fall-protection system.

• (2) If, in a work place, there is a hazard of drowning,

  • (a) emergency equipment must be provided and held in readiness;

  • (b) a qualified person to operate all the emergency equipment provided must be present and ready to intervene;

  • (c) if appropriate, a vessel must be provided and held in readiness; and

  • (d) written emergency procedures, meeting the requirements set out in the regulations made under the Canada Shipping Act, 2001, must be prepared by the employer.

• 148. (1) A record of all self-contained breathing apparatus provided by the employer must be kept by the employer on the vessel on which the breathing apparatus is located for a period of two years after the day on which the apparatus ceases to be used.

• (2) The record must contain

  • (a) a description of the breathing apparatus and the date of its acquisition by the employer;

  • (b) the date and result of each inspection and test of the breathing apparatus;

  • (c) the date and nature of any maintenance work performed on the breathing apparatus since its acquisition by the employer; and

  • (d) the name of the person who performed the inspection, test or maintenance of the breathing apparatus.

• 149. (1) An employer must instruct every person granted access to a work place who is to use protection equipment in the use of the equipment.

• (2) An employer must train and instruct every employee who uses protection equipment in the use, operation and maintenance of the equipment.

• (3) The instruction referred to in subsections (1) and (2) must be

  • (a) set out in writing; and

  • (b) kept by the employer and made readily available for examination by every person granted access to the work place.