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

14.17 Where motorized materials handling equipment cannot be operated safely in reverse unless it is fitted with sufficient rear-view mirrors, it shall be so fitted.

14.18 Subject to subsection 14.51(2), the design, construction, operation and maintenance of guided industrial vehicles shall meet the standards set out in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Standard ASME B56.5-1993, Safety Standard for Guided Industrial Vehicles and Automated Functions of Manned Industrial Vehicles, dated 1993, as amended from time to time.

14.19 Subject to subsection 14.51(2), the design, construction, operation and maintenance of each conveyor, cableway or other similar motorized materials handling equipment shall meet the standards set out in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Standard ASME B20.1-1993, Safety Standard for Conveyors and Related Equipment, dated 1993, as amended from time to time.

• 14.20 (1) Before motorized or manual materials handling equipment is used for the first time in a work place, the employer shall set out in writing instructions on the inspection, testing and maintenance of that materials handling equipment.

• (2) Instructions referred to in subsection (1) shall specify the nature and frequency of inspections, testing and maintenance.

• (3) The inspection, testing and maintenance referred to in subsection (1) shall be performed by a qualified person who

  • (a) complies with the instructions referred to in that subsection; and

  • (b) makes and signs a report of each inspection, test or maintenance work performed by the qualified person.

• (4) A report referred to in paragraph (3)(b) shall

  • (a) include the date of the inspection, testing or maintenance performed by the qualified person;

  • (b) identify the materials handling equipment that was inspected, tested or maintained; and

  • (c) set out the safety observations of the qualified person.

• (5) The employer shall keep at the work place at which the motorized or manual materials handling equipment is located a copy of

  • (a) the instructions referred to in subsection (1) for as long as the materials handling equipment is in use; and

  • (b) the report referred to in paragraph (3)(b) for a period of one year after the report is signed.

14.21 Mobile cranes shall be inspected, tested and maintained in accordance with the requirements of section 5 of CSA Standard Z150-1974, Safety Code for Mobile Cranes, dated 1974, and its supplement Z150S1-1977 entitled Supplement 1-1977 to CSA Standard Z150-1974 Safety Code for Mobile Cranes, published in 1977.