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

Section 186 Disposition versions

2023-07-27

186. Removal or replacement of a means of protection: Except in the cases provided for in this Division, a means of protection may not be removed.

Where a means of protection must be replaced, the new means of protection must provide a level of safety at least equivalent to that of the original part.

O.C. 885-2001, s. 186; O.C. 1187-2015, s. 2; O.C. 1112-2023, s. 3.

2016-01-14

186. (Revoked).

O.C. 885-2001, s. 186; O.C. 1187-2015, s. 2.

2012-09-01

186. Adjustment, repair, unjamming, maintenance and apprenticeship: When a worker must access a machine’s danger zone for adjustment, unjamming, maintenance, apprenticeship or repair purposes, including for detecting abnormal operations, and to do so, he must move or remove a protector, or neutralize a protective device, the machine shall only be restarted by means of a manual control or in compliance with a safety procedure specifically provided for allowing such access. This manual control or this procedure shall have the following characteristics:

(1)  it causes any other control mode or any other procedure, as the case may be, to become inoperative;

(2)  it only allows the operation of the dangerous parts of the machine by a control device requiring continuous action or a two-hand control device;

(3)  it only allows the operation of these dangerous parts under enhanced security conditions, for instance, at low speed, under reduced tension, step-by-step or by separate steps.

O.C. 885-2001, s. 186.