diff --git a/client/ayon_core/hosts/maya/plugins/publish/validate_current_renderlayer_renderable.py b/client/ayon_core/hosts/maya/plugins/publish/validate_current_renderlayer_renderable.py
index 4590c53931..045e22545c 100644
--- a/client/ayon_core/hosts/maya/plugins/publish/validate_current_renderlayer_renderable.py
+++ b/client/ayon_core/hosts/maya/plugins/publish/validate_current_renderlayer_renderable.py
@@ -1,14 +1,18 @@
+import inspect
+
 import pyblish.api
 
 from maya import cmds
 from ayon_core.pipeline.publish import (
     context_plugin_should_run,
+    PublishValidationError,
     OptionalPyblishPluginMixin
 )
 
+
 class ValidateCurrentRenderLayerIsRenderable(pyblish.api.ContextPlugin,
                                              OptionalPyblishPluginMixin):
-    """Validate if current render layer has a renderable camera
+    """Validate if current render layer has a renderable camera.
 
     There is a bug in Redshift which occurs when the current render layer
     at file open has no renderable camera. The error raised is as follows:
@@ -32,8 +36,39 @@ class ValidateCurrentRenderLayerIsRenderable(pyblish.api.ContextPlugin,
         if not context_plugin_should_run(self, context):
             return
 
-        layer = cmds.editRenderLayerGlobals(query=True, currentRenderLayer=True)
+        # This validator only makes sense when publishing renderlayer instances
+        # with Redshift. We skip validation if there isn't any.
+        if not any(self.is_active_redshift_render_instance(instance)
+                   for instance in context):
+            return
+
         cameras = cmds.ls(type="camera", long=True)
         renderable = any(c for c in cameras if cmds.getAttr(c + ".renderable"))
-        assert renderable, ("Current render layer '%s' has no renderable "
-                            "camera" % layer)
+        if not renderable:
+            layer = cmds.editRenderLayerGlobals(query=True,
+                                                currentRenderLayer=True)
+            raise PublishValidationError(
+                "Current render layer '{}' has no renderable camera".format(
+                    layer
+                ),
+                description=inspect.getdoc(self)
+            )
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def is_active_redshift_render_instance(instance) -> bool:
+        """Return whether instance is an active renderlayer instance set to
+        render with Redshift renderer."""
+        if not instance.data.get("active", True):
+            return False
+
+        # Check this before families just because it's a faster check
+        if not instance.data.get("renderer") == "redshift":
+            return False
+
+        families = set()
+        families.add(instance.data.get("family"))
+        families.update(instance.data.get("families", []))
+        if "renderlayer" not in families:
+            return False
+
+        return True