Workplace Safety and Health (General Provisions) Regulations · 2007 Revised Edition · Part II · General Provisions Relating to Health
5. Ventilation
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Subject to paragraph (3), it shall be the duty of the occupier of a workplace to ensure that every workroom of the workplace is provided with adequate ventilation.
Where gases, vapours or other impurities are generated in the course of any process or work carried out in a workplace which may be injurious to health, it shall be the duty of the occupier of the workplace to provide effective and suitable ventilation —
for securing and maintaining the circulation of fresh air in the workplace; and
to render harmless, so far as is reasonably practicable, all such gases, vapours or other impurities.
This regulation shall not apply to any workplace where it is impracticable to make provision for adequate ventilation and where suitable air-supplied breathing apparatus is provided to persons at work in the workplace.
Subregulation 1
Subject to paragraph (3), it shall be the duty of the occupier of a workplace to ensure that every workroom of the workplace is provided with adequate ventilation.
Subregulation 2
Where gases, vapours or other impurities are generated in the course of any process or work carried out in a workplace which may be injurious to health, it shall be the duty of the occupier of the workplace to provide effective and suitable ventilation —
for securing and maintaining the circulation of fresh air in the workplace; and
to render harmless, so far as is reasonably practicable, all such gases, vapours or other impurities.
Subregulation 3
This regulation shall not apply to any workplace where it is impracticable to make provision for adequate ventilation and where suitable air-supplied breathing apparatus is provided to persons at work in the workplace.