![]() “work-platform” means a raised temporary horizontal working surface that provides access and support to a person at a workplace “vertical lifeline” means a flexible lifeline with an end termination on the top end that is connected to an anchorage or anchorage connector and hangs vertically from where it is connected “travel restraint system” means a fall-protection system that will prevent a person from reaching an unprotected edge or opening “temporary flooring” means a fall-protection system consisting of a horizontal working surface that is designed, constructed and installed to provide access to areas that do not have permanent flooring by protecting a person from falling through an unprotected opening “self-retracting device” means a device that arrests a person’s fall by performing a tethering function while allowing vertical movement below the device to the maximum working length of the device (ii) it is level enough to prevent a further fall by a person who has fallen, (i) it is large enough and strong enough to adequately support a person who falls, ![]() “safe surface” means an area that meets all of the following criteria: “elevating work-platform” means a mobile horizontal working surface that provides access and support to a person at a workplace, and that is elevated and lowered by means of a mechanism that complies with Part 23: Scaffolds and Other Elevated Work-platforms ![]() “personnel safety net” means a fall-protection system that uses at least 1 net to stop a person who is falling before the person makes contact with a lower level or obstruction “lifeline” means a component of a fall-protection system consisting of a vertical lifeline or a horizontal lifeline “lanyard” means a flexible line or strap used to secure a full-body harness to an energy absorber, fall-arrester, lifeline or anchorage “horizontal lifeline” means a flexible line made from wire, fibre rope, wire rope, or rod, with end terminations at both ends, that extends horizontally from one end anchorage to another (i) are capable of withstanding concentrated forces, as prescribed in these regulations or an applicable standard, “guardrail” means a fall-protection system consisting of vertical and horizontal members that “full-body harness” means a body-holding device, similar to a parachute harness, that transfers suspension forces or impacts during a fall arrest to a person’s pelvis or skeleton “fall-protection system” means any secondary system that is intended to prevent a person from falling or arrests a fall that occurs, and includes guardrails, temporary flooring, travel-restraint systems, personnel safety nets and fall-arrest systems “fall-arrest system” means a fall-protection system consisting of an assembly of components that arrests a person’s fall when properly assembled, used together and connected to a suitable anchorage “fall distance” means the vertical distance a person may fall, measured from the surface where the weight of a person is supported to the surface the person could fall onto “energy absorber” means a component of a fall-protection system consisting of a device that dissipates kinetic energy and does not return it to the fall-arrest system or into a person’s body “body belt” means a body support device that encircles the body at or about the waist (iv) assessing growth or harvesting potential (i) detecting and treating disease, infections or infestations, “arborist” means a person trained and employed, in whole or in part, to climb trees for an economic or scientific purpose, including any of the following: Nova Scotia - Work Place and Safety Regulations Under the Occupational Health and Safety Act Intermittent Stabilization Anchors (ISA’s).
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