Canada Occupational Health and Safety Regulations (SOR/86-304)

Regulations are current to 2013-04-29 and last amended on 2012-12-07. Previous Versions

Training

  • 11.11 (1) The employer shall provide every employee who is likely to enter a confined space with instruction and training in

    • (a) the procedures established pursuant to paragraphs 11.3(a) and 11.5(1)(a); and

    • (b) the use of the protection equipment referred to in paragraphs 11.3(b), (c) and (d).

  • (2) The employer shall ensure that no person enters a confined space unless the person is instructed in

    • (a) the procedures to be followed in accordance with paragraphs 11.3(a) and 11.5(1)(a); and

    • (b) the use of the protection equipment referred to in paragraphs 11.3(b), (c) and (d).

  • SOR/92-544, s. 1;
  • SOR/95-286, s. 10(F).

Record Keeping

11.12 The employer shall, at the employer’s place of business nearest to the work place in which the confined space is located, keep a written copy or a machine-readable version of

  • (a) any report made pursuant to subsection 11.2(2) and the procedures established pursuant to paragraphs 11.3(a) and 11.5(1)(a) for a period of ten years after the date on which the qualified person signed the report or the procedures were established; and

  • (b) any report made pursuant to subsection 11.4(2)

    • (i) for a period of ten years after the date on which the qualified person signed the report where the verification procedures undertaken pursuant to paragraphs 11.4(1)(a) and (c) indicate that the specifications set out in subparagraphs 11.4(1)(a)(i) to (iii) were not complied with, and

    • (ii) in every other case, for a period of two years after the date on which the qualified person signed the report.

  • SOR/92-544, s. 1.

PART XII

SAFETY MATERIALS, EQUIPMENT, DEVICES AND CLOTHING

General

12.1 Where

  • (a) it is not reasonably practicable to eliminate or control a health or safety hazard in a work place within safe limits, and

  • (b) the use of protection equipment may prevent or reduce injury from that hazard,

every person granted access to the work place who is exposed to that hazard shall use the protection equipment prescribed by this Part.

  • SOR/94-263, s. 44(F);
  • SOR/95-533, s. 2(F);
  • SOR/2002-208, s. 39.

12.2 All protection equipment referred to in section 12.1

  • (a) shall be designed to protect the person from the hazard for which it is provided; and

  • (b) shall not in itself create a hazard.

12.3 All protection equipment provided by the employer shall

  • (a) be maintained, inspected and tested by a qualified person; and

  • (b) where necessary to prevent a health hazard, be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition by a qualified person.