Personal protective equipment regulatory initiative – summary of changes

Ensuring proper fit of PPE

Depending on the regulation, updated language would either add or introduce new requirements to ensure that a qualified person considers key factors, such as body dimension, when properly fitting PPE to an employee.

Safety standards

Modernizing PPE technical standards will help achieve consistency across the federal OHS regulations and align the federal PPE technical standards with the provinces and territories.

Fall protection

In addition to updating technical standards for fall-protection equipment, the changes make definitions clearer, improve wording, and—where not already needed—introduce the need for a fall-protection plan and the use of a hierarchy of fall-protection systems to prevent falls.

Training and instruction

Training for PPE must come from a qualified person, now matching the requirement already in place under the COHSR.

While Employers still need to keep a written record of the training, this record would consist of a summary and need to be accessible to everyone in the workplace.

Simplifying PPE requirements

To reduce confusion, PPE requirements and terminology become more consistent where possible across the regulations and adopt the common terms used by the provinces, territories, and industry.

Administrative Monetary Penalties (Canada Labour Code) Regulations

Changes to Schedule 1 of the AMPs Regulations remove designations for requirements no longer necessary and add violation types for new requirements introduced.