2In this Regulation
“ACGIH” means the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists;(ACGIH)
“Act” means the Occupational Health and Safety Act;(Loi)
“adequate” means sufficient to protect a person from the risk of injury or damage to health;(convenable)
“aerial device” means any vehicle-mounted telescoping or articulating device that is used to position a person by means of a bucket, basket or platform directly secured to the boom;(dispositif aérien)
“air contaminant” means any gas, fume, smoke, vapour, dust or other airborne concentration of a substance that may be hazardous to the health or safety of a person;(polluant)
“angle of repose” means the angle with the horizontal at which material will no longer flow freely;(angle de repos)
“ANSI” means the American National Standards Institute;(ANSI)
“arboricultural operation” means work connected with the care and maintenance of trees and includes pruning and tree removal;(opération arboricole)
“ASHRAE” means the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc.;(ASHRAE)
“ASME” means the American Society of Mechanical Engineers;(ASME)
“blaster” means a person who holds a valid certificate of qualification in the blaster occupation or powderman trade issued under the Apprenticeship and Occupational Certification Act;(boutefeu)
“blasting area” means an area within a 50 m radius extending from a place where explosives are being prepared, handled or loaded or from a place where an unexploded charge is known or believed to exist;(aire de sautage)
“blasting operation” means an operation using explosives and extends from the time explosives arrive at a place of employment to the time all explosives are used or removed from the place of employment;(opération de sautage)
“CGA” means the Compressed Gas Association, Inc.;(CGA)
“CGSB” means the Canadian General Standards Board;(ONGC)
“competent” means
(compétent)
(a)
qualified, because of such factors as knowledge, training and experience, to do assigned work in a manner that will ensure the health and safety of persons,
(b)
knowledgeable about the provisions of the Act and the regulations that apply to the assigned work, and
(c)
knowledgeable about potential or actual danger to health or safety connected with the assigned work;
“CSA” means the Canadian Standards Association;(ACNOR)
“danger area” means twice the distance at which there exists a possibility of hazard to a person or property from the effects of a blast;(aire de danger)
“dB” means peak sound pressure level in decibels referenced to twenty micropascals;(dB)
“dBA” means the sound pressure level in decibels referenced to twenty micropascals measured on the A scale of a sound level meter;(dBA)
“de-energized” means isolated and grounded;(dé-électrifié)
“engineer” means a person who
(ingénieur)
(a)
is registered as a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of New Brunswick as entitled to engage in the practice of engineering,
(b)
has received a licence from the Executive Council of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of New Brunswick to engage in engineering, or
(c)
is practising as a professional engineer in New Brunswick under subsection 10(7) of the
Engineering and Geoscience Professions Act;
“explosive” means a substance that is made, manufactured or used to produce an explosion or detonation and includes black powder, propellant powders, blasting agents, dynamite, detonating cord, slurry, watergel and detonators;(explosif)
“felling” means any part of an operation that severs a tree from its stump and brings it to a horizontal position on the ground or a bed;(coupe)
“firefighter” means an employee who provides fire protection services to the public from a fire department within a municipality, rural community or local service district, and includes an industrial firefighter;(pompier)
“guardrail” means a guardrail that meets the requirements of section 97;(garde-corps)
“hazardous substance” means a substance that may, because of its harmful nature, cause injury or damage to the health or safety of a person exposed to it;(substances dangereuses)
“hoisting apparatus” means mobile cranes, tower cranes, electric overhead travelling cranes, vehicle hoists, winches, and other similar equipment, but does not include elevators, dumbwaiters, or mine hoists; (appareils de levage)
“individual fall-arresting system” means an individual fall-arresting system that meets the requirements of subsection 49(3);(dispositif individuel de protection contre les chutes)
“industrial firefighter” means an employee who works at an industrial or commercial place of employment and who is designated by his or her employer to fight fires at that place of employment;(pompier industriel)
“industrial lift truck” means a self-propelled vehicle used to carry, lift, stack, tier, push or pull material;(chariot de levage industriel)
“life line” means a manila rope with a minimum diameter of 19 mm or a rope or strap of equivalent strength; (corde d’assurance)
“lock out” means to render a machine or electrical equipment inoperative and prevent it from being activated by using a locking device to isolate the energy source from the machine or equipment;(verrouiller)
“logging operation” means work connected with the harvesting of trees and includes the felling and transportation of trees;(opération de bûcheronnage)
“manufacturer’s rated capacity” means the maximum capacity, speed, load, depth of operation or working pressure recommended in the manufacturer’s specifications for the operation of a machine under the circumstances prevailing at the time of operation;(capacité nominale du fabricant)
“portable compressed gas container” means any container having a water capacity of 450 kg or less that contains or is intended to contain a compressed or liquefied gas;(contenant portatif de gaz sous pression)
“portable power-operated hand tool” means a tool held with one or both hands and powered by a hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical or chemical energy source;(outil à main portatif motorisé)
“powderman” Repealed: 93-8
“powered mobile equipment” means self-propelled off-highway equipment used for construction, mining, agriculture, forestry and other purposes and includes front-end loaders, dozers, backhoes, excavators, skidders, forwarders, tree-harvesters, scrapers, compactors, rollers, graders, agricultural tractors and industrial tractors, but does not include industrial lift trucks or mobile cranes;(équipment mobile à moteur)
“pressure” means gauge pressure in kilopascals;(pression)
“SAE” means the Society of Automotive Engineers;(SAE)
“safeguard” means a guard, shield, guardrail, fence, gate, barrier, safety net, wire mesh or other protective enclosure, handrail or other similar device designed to protect the safety of a person, but does not include protective equipment;(dispositif de protection)
“service stairway” means a stairway used for access for purposes of maintenance and repair and not used as part of a travelway;(escalier de service)
“silviculture operation” means the development and care of trees and includes site preparation, planting, thinning and harvesting;(opération de sylviculture)
“structural fire-fighting” means the activities of rescue, fire suppression and conservation of property from fires involving buildings, structures, vehicles, vessels, aircraft or other large objects;(lutte contre un incendie d’immeuble)
“swing staging” means a platform supported at the ends by hangers or stirrups and slings and suspended by ropes attached to hooks or thrust-outs which are attached to fixed supports;(échafaudage volant)
“threshold limit value” means
(valeur limite d’exposition)
(a)
except with respect to lead sulfide and formaldehyde, a threshold limit value adopted by the ACGIH and set out in the ACGIH publication entitled “1997 Threshold Limit Values for Chemical Substances and Physical Agents and Biological Exposure Indices”, and
(b)
with respect to lead sulfide, a threshold limit value adopted by the ACGIH for lead sulfide set out in the ACGIH publication entitled “1991-1992 Threshold Limit Values for Chemical Substances and Physical Agents and Biological Exposure Indices”, and
(c)
with respect to formaldehyde, the threshold limit value set out in section 23.1;
“underground mine” means an underground mine as defined in the Underground Mine Regulation - Occupational Health and Safety Act;(mine souterraine)
“zero energy state” means, with respect to a machine, a state in which all
(niveau d’énergie zéro)
(b)
pressurized fluids and air,
(c)
potential mechanical energy,
(d)
accumulators and air surge tanks,
(e)
kinetic energy of machine members,
(f)
loose or freely moveable machine members, and
(g)
moveable material or work pieces that are supported, retained or controlled by a machine and that could move or cause the machine to move,
are acted upon to render the machine incapable of spontaneous or unexpected action by being locked out, isolated, blocked, supported, retained, controlled, drained to tank, vented to the atmosphere, reduced to atmospheric pressure or otherwise released of potential energy.
93-8; 96-106; 97-121; 2001-33; 2005-80