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Part 1 Definitions
Definitions
1.1 In this Occupational Health and Safety Regulation
"acceptable to the Board"
Note: Many sections of the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation refer to standards, procedures, or means "acceptable to the Board". Information on what is acceptable to the Board may be obtained by referring to the OHS Guidelines on the particular section at www.worksafebc.com or other Board publications, or by contacting the Board. [Note added January 28, 2002.]
"administrative controls" means the provision, use and scheduling of work activities and resources in the workplace, including planning, organizing, staffing and coordinating, for the purpose of controlling risk;
"Board" means the Workers' Compensation Board;
"combustible liquid" means a substance which meets the criteria for WHMIS Class B Division 3 combustible liquid (a flash point of 37.8°C (100°F) or more but less than 93.3°C (200°F);
"contaminant" means a harmful or irritant material, or nuisance dust, foreign to the normal composition of a substance, or a material that varies the normal proportions of components in a mixture such as air;
"controlled product" means a product, material or substance specified by regulations made pursuant to section 15(1)(a) of the Hazardous Products Act (Canada) as products, materials and substances included in any of the classes listed in Schedule II of that Act;
"engineering controls" means the physical arrangement, design or alteration of workstations, equipment, materials, production facilities or other aspects of the physical work environment, for the purpose of controlling risk;
"flammable liquid" means a substance which meets the criterion for WHMIS Class B Division 2 flammable liquid (a flash point less than 37.8°C (100°F);
"hazard" means a thing or condition that may expose a person to a risk of injury or occupational disease;
"hazard area" means an area in a workplace where a hazard exists, or is created, due to a condition in the area or the activities conducted in it;
"HEPA" means, in reference to air filtration, a high efficiency particulate air filter meeting the specifications of a nuclear grade filter, providing a 99.97% filtration efficiency at a 0.3 micrometre particle size;
"incident" includes an accident or other occurrence which resulted in or had the potential for causing an injury or occupational disease;
"IDLH atmosphere" means an atmosphere containing a substance at a concentration which is immediately dangerous to life or health (IDLH) because the concentration is greater than that from which one could escape without any escape-impairing symptoms or irreversible health effects, and includes an atmosphere with an unknown concentration with the potential to be immediately dangerous to life or health;
"material safety data sheet" or "MSDS" means a document disclosing the information referred to in section 13(a)(i) to (v) of the Hazardous Products Act (Canada) and section 12(1) to (3) of the Controlled Products Regulations (Canada);
"mg/m3" means milligrams of a substance per cubic metre of air; [Amended by B.C. Reg. 315/2003, effective October 29, 2003.]
Note: It is a measure of weight and generally applies to aerosols such
as dusts, fumes and mists.
"oxygen deficient" means, in relation to air, a condition in which there is less than 19.5% oxygen by volume, or the partial pressure of oxygen is less than 16.3 kPa (122 mm Hg);
"ppm" means parts of a vapour or a gas per million parts of contaminated air by volume at a temperature of 25 degrees Celsius and an atmospheric pressure of 760 millimetres of mercury; [Amended by B.C. Reg. 315/2003, effective October 29, 2003.]
"practicable" means that which is reasonably capable of being done;
"professional engineer" means a person who is registered or licensed to practice engineering under the provisions of the Engineers and Geoscientists Act;
"professional geoscientist" means a professional geoscientist or licensee under the Engineers and Geoscientists Act;
"qualified" means being knowledgeable of the work, the hazards involved and the means to control the hazards, by reason of education, training, experience or a combination thereof;
"qualified registered professional" means
(a) a professional engineer or professional geoscientist, and
(b) in relation to a forestry operation, a person referred to in paragraph (a) or a professional forester or holder of a special permit under the Foresters Act;
"rated capacity" or "rated load" means the load that machinery or a piece of equipment is, in accordance with its design, rated to bear under section 4.8; [Amended by B.C. Reg. 312/2003, effective October 29, 2003.]
"risk" means a chance of injury or occupational disease;
"sensitizer" means a substance that has been shown to elicit an allergenic type of response in humans after an initial exposure, resulting in development of symptoms upon subsequent exposure at much lower concentrations;
"supervisor" means a person who instructs, directs and controls workers in the performance of their duties;
"working load limit" or "WLL" means the maximum load which a product is authorized by the manufacturer to support in a particular service.
[Amended by B.C. Reg. 253/2001, effective January 28, 2002.]
[Amended by B.C. Reg. 312/2003, effective October 29, 2003.]
[Amended by B.C. Reg. 315/2003, effective October 29, 2003.]
[Amended by B.C. Reg. 20/2008, effective May 1, 2008.]
[Amended by B.C. Reg. 258/2008, effective January 1, 2009.]
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