The Workplace Safety and Health Amendment Act (Inappropriate or Unsafe Footwear)

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3rd Session, 41st Legislature

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Bill 219

THE WORKPLACE SAFETY AND HEALTH AMENDMENT ACT (INAPPROPRIATE OR UNSAFE FOOTWEAR)

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Explanatory Note

(Assented to )

HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:

C.C.S.M. c. W210 amended

The Workplace Safety and Health Act is amended by this Act.

The following is added after section 45.1:

INAPPROPRIATE OR UNSAFE FOOTWEAR

Inappropriate or unsafe footwear

45.2

An employer must not require a worker to wear footwear that

(a) is not of a design, construction and material appropriate to the protection required for the worker's work; or

(b) does not allow the worker to safely perform their work.

Coming into force

This Act comes into force on the day it receives royal assent.

Explanatory Note

This Bill amends The Workplace Safety and Health Act to prohibit an employer from requiring a worker to wear footwear that is not appropriate to the protection required for the worker's work or that does not allow the worker to safely perform their work.