do i need a permit to drive a forklift?

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be exceeded. - (3) Where a defect is identified with a machine or supplies that affects the safe operation of the machine, an employer shall ensure that - (a) the machine is not operated until repaired; and - (b) until repaired or replaced, the machine and supplies are clearly identified as defective. - 85 (1) An employer shall ensure that an operator of a machine or tool is a competent person. - (2) An employer shall ensure that a person responsible for maintaining a machine or tool is a competent person. ## Contact with machines 86 - (1) An employer shall ensure that adequate space is provided around a machine to ensure the safety of a person while the machine is being - (a) operated; or - (b) cleaned, adjusted, repaired or otherwise maintained. - (2) No person shall be near a rotating shaft, spindle, gear, belt or other possible source of entanglement - (a) while wearing any article of clothing or jewellery that in the circumstances presents a hazard to a person in the workplace; or - (b) with hair that is not confined closely to the head by suitable headwear. ## Safeguards - 87 (1) In this Section 'safeguard' means a guard, shield, guardrail, fence, gate, barrier, safety net, wire mesh or other protective enclosure or device, but does not include personal protective equipment. Subsection 87(1) replaced: O.I.C. 2000-130, N.S. Reg. 52/2000. - (2) Where a person may come in contact with a moving part of a machine or tool that may present a hazard to a person, an employer shall ensure that an adequate safeguard has been installed on the machine or tool to prevent contact. - (3) Despite subsection (2), an employer is not required to ensure that a safeguard is \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

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- (a) the inspections referred to in subsections (3), (5) and (7); and Clause 80(9)(a) amended: O.I.C. 2004-14, N.S. Reg. 4/2004. - (b) any repairs to rigging hardware. - (10) The record referred to in subsection (9) shall include the date, time, nature and results of the inspection or repair and the name of the person who performed the inspection or repair. - (11) An employer shall identify the safe lifting capacity of rigging hardware on the device in a permanent and clearly legible manner. - (12) An employer shall ensure that a person using rigging hardware receives adequate training and other information sufficient to ensure that they are knowledgeable about the capacity of the rigging hardware. - (13) An employer shall designate a competent person to use rigging hardware. - (14) Before a load is raised by a hoist, an employer shall ensure that a competent person ensures that the load is secured to the hoist in an adequate manner by means of appropriate rigging hardware. Section 80 replaced: O.I.C. 2000-130, N.S. Reg. 52/2000. ## Lift trucks 81 - (1) An employer must ensure that a lift truck is designed, constructed, maintained, inspected, and operated in accordance with the latest version of the applicable standard listed below: - (a) CSA standard CSA B335, 'Safety standards for lift trucks'; - (b) ANSI standard ANSI/ITSDF B56.1, 'Safety Standard for Low Lift and High Lift Trucks'; - (c) ANSI standard ANSI/ITSDF B56.6, 'Safety Standard for Rough Terrain Forklift Trucks'. - (2) An employer must ensure that every supervisor and operator of a lift truck has been provided with the necessary information, instruction, training, supervision, facilities, and equipment required for the safe operation of the equipment in accordance with the standards in subsection (1), as applicable. Section 81 replaced: O.I.C. 2013-65, N.S. Reg. 53/2013. - 82 (1 ) An employer must ensure that a lift truck is operated in a manner that will not \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\…

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## S-15.1 REG 10 ## OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY, 2020 - (4) If a worker leaves an aerial device or elevating work platform parked or unattended, an employer or contractor shall ensure that the device or platform: - (a) is locked or rendered inoperative; or - (b) is fully lowered and retracted with all hydraulic systems in the neutral position or incapable of operating by moving the controls. - (5) An employer or contractor shall ensure that: - (a) a worker who operates an aerial device or elevating work platform is trained to operate the device or platform safely; and - (b) the training includes the manufacturer's instructions and recommendations, the load limitations, the proper use of all controls and any limitations on the surfaces on which the device or platform is designed to be used. - (6) An employer or contractor shall ensure that, while a worker is on a work platform mounted on a forklift and the forklift is in the raised position, the operator: - (a) remains at the controls; and - (b) does not drive the forklift. - (7) An employer or contractor shall ensure that the manufacturer's operating manual for the aerial device or elevating work platform is kept with the device or platform at all times. 31 Dec 2020 c S-15.1 Reg 10 s12-25. ## Maintenance and inspection - 12-26 (1) An employer, contractor, owner or supplier shall ensure that only competent persons maintain and inspect an aerial device, elevating work platform, suspended powered platform, personnel lifting unit or scaffold to which section 12-10 applies. - (2) An employer, contractor, owner or supplier shall ensure that a maintenance and inspection record tag: - (a) is provided for an aerial device, elevating work platform, suspended powered scaffold, personnel lifting unit or scaffold to which section 12-10 applies, and is attached to the device, platform, unit or scaffold near the operator's station; and - (b) has the following record…