Maritime Occupational Health and Safety Regulations

138 (1) The employer must ensure that every person granted access to a work place who is exposed to a health or safety hazard uses the protection equipment prescribed by this Part

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

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

(2) All protection equipment must

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

• (b) not in itself create a hazard;

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

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