Factory and workshop orders.

  • Great Britain. Home Office.
Date:
1905
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Factory and workshop orders. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    .» , i • ** Definitions - • v- : ■ ■j;. y ■ . .1 Ventilation. Separation of processes. Floors. Regulations, dated November 21, 1903, for the Manu- facture of Electric Accumulators.* 1903. No. 1004. \Y liereas the manufacture of electric accumulators has been certified in pursuance of Section 79 of the Factory and Work- shop Act, 1901,t to be dangerous; I hereby, in pursuance of the powers conferred on me by that Act, make the following regulations, and direct that they shall apply to all Factories and Workshops or parts thereof in which Electric Accumulators are Manufac- tured. In these Regulations “ lead process ” means pasting, casting, lead burning, or any work involving contact with dry com- pounds of lead. Any approval given by the Chief Inspector of Factories in pursuance of these Regulations shall be given in writing, and may at any time be revoked by notice in writing signed by him. Duties of Occupier. 1. Every room in which casting, pasting or lead burning is carried on shall contain at least 500 cubic feet of air space for each person employed therein, and in computing this air space, no height above 14 feet shall be taken into account. These rooms and that in which the plates are formed, shall be capable of through ventilation. They shall be provided with windows made to open. 2. Each of the following processes shall be carried on in such manner and under such conditions as to secure effectual separa- tion from one another and from any other process: — (a.) Manipulation of dry compounds of lead; (b.) Pasting; (c.) Formation, and lead burning necessarily carried on therewith; (d.) Melting down of old plates. Provided that manipulation of dry compounds of lead carried on as in Regulation 5 (b) need not be separated from pasting. 3. The floors of the rooms in which manipulation of dry com- pounds of lead or pasting is carried on shall be of cement or c These Regulations were gazetted November 24, 1903.