S-2.1, r. 13 - Regulation respecting occupational health and safety

Section 183 Disposition versions

2023-07-27

183. Electrosensitive protective equipment: Electrosensitive protective equipment may be used as a means of protection when it is integrated in the operative part of the machine and associated with its control system so that

(1)  a command is given as soon as a person or part of a person’s body is detected;

(2)  the removing of the person or part of the person’s body detected does not, by itself, restart the machine function presenting a risk for worker health and safety;

(3)  restarting the function presenting a risk for worker health and safety results from the voluntary actuation, by the operator, of a control device placed outside the danger zone, where that zone can be observed by the operator;

(4)  the machine cannot operate during interruption of the detection function of the electrosensitive protective equipment, except during muting phases consisting of the automatic and temporary suspension of a safety function by the safety-related parts of the control system;

(5)  the position and the shape of the detection field prevents, if applicable, together with other means of protection, a person or part of a person’s body from entering or being present in the danger zone without being detected.

O.C. 885-2001, s. 183; O.C. 1112-2023, s. 3.

2012-09-01

183. Equivalent safety precautions: Section 182 does not apply when it is foreseeable that the effects of installing a protector or a protective device on a machine will make the operations for which it was designed reasonably impractical, such as a snow blower, a railway switch or a medical appliance intended to act directly on a patient.

In this case, the employer shall take precautions that ensure the equivalent safety of workers, namely with respect to the organization of the work, worker training, the machine’s operating conditions and operating modes, and individual protective means and equipment that take into account the absence of a protector or of a protective device.

O.C. 885-2001, s. 183.