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NL · Occupational Health and Safety Regulations (workplace standards) · Article 513 · clause 513 · NLR 5/12

PART XXVII CONFINED SPACE ENTRY — Work procedures

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(1) An employer shall ensure that a worker who is required or permitted to enter a confined space in which a harmful atmosphere exists or may develop or the worker may become entrapped by material

513(a)

wears appropriate retrieval equipment which would keep the worker in a position to be rescued; and is assigned to the worker; monitor the safety of the worker in the confined space;

513(b)

has a life-line attached to the retrieval equipment which is tended at all times by a person, stationed outside the entrance to the confined space who shall be equipped for and capable of effecting rescue and the employer shall prevent entanglement of life-lines and other equipment where one or more workers enter the confined space. is stationed outside and near provide assistance to the worker; and

513(2)

Notwithstanding subsection (1), the use of a lifeline is not required where an obstruction or other condition makes its use impractical or unsafe but, in that case, an employer shall implement procedures to ensure the safety of the worker.

513(3)

Where a worker is required to enter a confined space the employer shall ensure that an attendant

513(i)

the entrance to the confined space, or (ii) where there is more than one entrance to the confined space, the one that best allows the attendant to perform the attendant's duties under subsection (4);

513(c)

i s in continuous communication with the worker using the means of communication described in the relevant safe work procedure; and summon an adequate rescue response where one is required.

513(d)

is provided with a device for summoning an adequate rescue response.

513(4)

An attendant shall not enter a confined space and shall, in accordance with the required safe work procedure,

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