Oil and Gas Occupational Safety and Health Regulations (SOR/87-612)
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Regulations are current to 2013-04-29
Ventilation
10.36 The intake or exhaust duct for a ventilation system shall be so located that no employee may be exposed to any hazardous substance drawn in or exhausted through the duct.
- SOR/94-165, s. 34.
Clothing Storage
10.37 Clothing storage facilities shall be provided by the employer for the storage of overcoats and other clothes not worn by employees while they are working.
10.38 (1) A change room shall be provided by the employer where
(a) the nature of the work engaged in by an employee makes it necessary for the employee to change from street clothes to work clothes for safety or health reasons; or
(b) an employee is regularly engaged in work in which his work clothing becomes wet or contaminated by a hazardous substance.
(2) Where wet or contaminated work clothing referred to in paragraph (1)(b) is changed, it shall be stored in such a manner that it does not come in contact with clothing that is not wet or contaminated.
(3) No employee shall leave the work place wearing clothing contaminated by a hazardous substance.
(4) Every employer shall supply facilities for the drying or cleaning of wet or contaminated clothing referred to in paragraph (1)(b).
- SOR/88-199, s. 19.
PART XI
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES
Interpretation
11.1 In this Part,
- “hazard information”
“hazard information” means, in respect of a hazardous substance, information on the proper and safe storage, handling and use of the hazardous substance, including information relating to its toxicological properties; (renseignements sur les dangers)
- “lower explosive limit”
“lower explosive limit” means the lower limit of flammability of a chemical agent or a combination of chemical agents at ambient temperature and pressure, expressed
(a) for a gas or vapour, as a percentage per volume of air, and
(b) for dust, as the weight of dust per volume of air; (limite explosive inférieure)
- “product identifier”
“product identifier” means, in respect of a hazardous substance, the brand name, code name or code number specified by the supplier or employer or the chemical name, common name, generic name or trade name; (identificateur du produit)
- “supplier”
“supplier” means a person who is a manufacturer, processor or packager of a hazardous substance or a person who, in the course of business, imports or sells a hazardous substance. (fournisseur)
- SOR/88-199, s. 4.
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