Pinchin Environmental

Manitoba Labour and Immigration

Workplace Safety and Health Division

New Regulation 217/2006

(See also Pinchin Newsletter PEN # 30)

The Manitoba Labour and Immigration Workplace Safety and Health Division announced it’s new Occupational Safety and Health Regulation on November 1, 2006 - The Workplace Safety and Health Regulation 217/2006 made under The Workplace Safety and Health Act (C.C.S.M. c. W210).

The following are the sections:

Section #	Name of Section	Comment
1	Definitions and General Matters	New
2	General Duties	New
3	Workplace Safety and Health Committees and Representatives	Replaces MR 106/88R
4	General Workplace Requirements	New
5	First Aid	Replaces MR140/98
6	Personal Protective Equipment	New– Previously Enformed Through Guidelines
7	Storage of Materials, Equipment, Machines and Tools	New– Previously Enformed Through Guidelines
8	Musculoskeletal Injuries	New
9	Working Alone Or In Isolation	Replaces MR 105/88R
10	Harassment	New
11	Violence in the Workplace	New
12	Hearing Conservation and Noise Control	Replaces MR 227/94
13	Entrances, Exits, Stairways and Ladders	New– Previously Enformed Through Guidelines
14	Fall Protection	New– Previously Enformed Through Guidelines
15	Confined Spaces	New– Previously Enformed Through Guidelines
16	Machines, Tools and Robots	Replaces MR 108/88
17	Welding and Allied Processes	New– Previously Enformed Through Guidelines
18	Radiation	New– Previously Enformed Through Guidelines
19	Fire and Explosive Hazards	New– Previously Enformed Through Guidelines
20	Vehicular and Pedestrian Traffic	New– Previously Enformed Through Guidelines
21	Emergency Washing Facilities	New– Previously Enformed Through Guidelines
22	Powered Mobile Equipment (PME)	New– Previously Enformed Through Guidelines
23	Cranes and Hoists	Replaces MR 99/88
24	Pile Driving	New– Previously Enformed Through Guidelines
25	Work in the Vicinity of Overhead Electrical Lines	Replaces MR189/85
26	Excavation and Tunnels	New– Previously Enformed Through Guidelines
27	Work in a Compressed Air Environment	New
28	Scaffolds and Other Elevated Work Platforms	Replaces MR 189/85
29	Falsework and Flyforms	Replaces MR 189/85
30	Temporary Structures	Replaces MR 189/85
31	Roof Work	Replaces MR 189/85
32	Precast Concrete	Replaces MR 189/85
33	Demolition Work	Replaces MR 189/85
34	Explosives	Replaces MR 108/88R
35	Workplace Hazardous Materials Information Systems	Replaces MR 52/88R
36	Chemical and Biological Substances	Replaces MR 53/88R
37	Asbestos	New– Previously Enformed Through Guidelines
38	Electrical Safety	New– Previously Enformed Through Guidelines
39	Health Care Facilities	New– Previously Enformed Through Guidelines
40	Forestry and Aboriculture	New– Previously Enformed Through Guidelines
41	Oil and Gas	New
42	Firefighters	New
43	Diving Operations	New

Hazardous Materials
(Asbestos, Mould, Lead)

Indoor Air Quality &
Microbial Contamination

Environmental Due Diligence
& Remediation

Building Science

Environmental Air & Noise

Occupational Health & Safety

Climate Change GHG

Environmental
Laboratory Services