(a) At Fraser River Ports when employees working on log booms, scows, or stowing a deck load (when such deck load extends above the vessel's bulwarks), a suitable boat properly manned and equipped shall be provided, moored by means of a slip line in the most accessible place to best assure the safety of life and property.

(b) Where a ship is loading from a boom, raft or crib, the employer of the employees engaged in loading the ship shall keep in the water and as near as practicable to the place where the ship is loading, a life saving boat equipped with oars, a boat hook and a serviceable lifebuoy having ninety feet of heaving line attached thereto.

(c) Where the speed of the current in the water where a ship is loading is of three knots or more, the life saving boat maintained by the employer shall, in addition to the equipment mentioned in sub section (b) be manned and fitted with a motor.

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