S-2.1, r. 14 - Regulation respecting occupational health and safety in mines

Section 175 Disposition versions

2012-09-01

175. The following motorized vehicles shall be equipped with an automatic back-up sound warning device:

(1)  trucks having a rated load capacity of 5,000 kg (11,000 lb) or more;

(2)  wheeled loaders, except scoop-tram loaders used underground, having a rated load capacity of 2,250 kg (4,960.3 lb) or more;

(3)  graders and wheeled bulldozers.

The sound warning device must be set off automatically activated when reverse gear is engaged or must be activated by a detector.

For the purposes of this section, “rated load capacity” means the load established by the manufacturer as being the load that a truck may carry in its body or on its flatbed and, in the case of a loader, the load that it may carry in its bucket.

O.C. 213-93, s. 175; O.C. 1326-95, s. 37.