COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+
● A Class B Gas Fitter Certificate of Qualification - an appliance with an
input of 120 kW or less that displays a label or mark as follows:
a certification mark;
an approval mark issued under section 10 of the Act;
Piping and vents
● Discretion whether to inspect after issue of permit - Except as
otherwise provided under this Act a safety officer is not required to
inspect regulated work or a regulated product solely because a permit
was issued in respect of the regulated work or regulated product.
● Directives - (a) generally,
(b) for a specific regulated product or class of regulated products,
(c) for specific regulated work or class of regulated work,
(d) for a class of persons, or
(e) for or in relation to a specified period of time.
,● Safety orders - To prevent, avoid or reduce risk of personal injury or
damage to property, a provincial safety manager may, in writing, issue a
safety order.
(2) A safety order may be issued to any person in relation to any of the
following:
(a) regulated work or regulated products generally;
(b) a specific class of regulated product or regulated work;
(c) a specific regulated product or regulated work.
(3) For certainty, a safety order issued under this section may apply to
(a) regulated work that meets the requirements under this Act,
(b) regulated work that previously met the requirements under this Act
or a former Act but does not meet the current requirements under this
Act,
(c) regulated products that meet the requirements under this Act, or
(d) regulated products that previously met the requirements under this
Act or a former Act but do not meet the current requirements under this
Act, including a regulated product that bears a certification mark.
(4) A safety order may specify any requirement that is intended to
prevent, avoid or reduce the risk of personal injury or damage to
property and may include any of the following orders:
(a) that an existing regulated work or regulated product must be made
safe in compliance with the safety order;
(b) that a regulated product must be
(i) disconnected from a power source,
(ii) uninstalled, or
, (iii) modified before continued use;
(c) that a regulated product must be operated, installed, manufactured or
disposed of only as specified or that a regulated product must not be
moved;
(d) that current or future regulated work or a regulated product must
conform to the terms or conditions of the order;
(e) that a person take or refrain from taking any action that a safety
manager considers necessary to prevent, avoid or reduce a risk of
personal injury to persons or damage to property;
(f) that
● Variances - (1) A safety officer may, if requested by any person, issue,
in writing, a variance to the person varying the application of a provision
of the regulations with respect to a regulated product or regulated work.
(2) A variance may
(a) be made subject to terms and conditions specified by the safety
officer, and
(b) continue for a specified period of time.
(3) If the person who holds a variance complies with the terms and
conditions of the variance, the person must be considered to be in
compliance with the regulation that it varies.
(4) If a person applies for a variance and a safety officer refuses to issue
it, or issues it with terms or conditions attached to it that are not
requested or agreed to by the applicant, the safety officer who deals with
the application must inform the applicant and, if the applicant requests
written notice, give the applicant written notice of that decision.