10. Sacks in which the powder is transported and piled in heaps
shall be of a certain defined strength to be increased in the
case of sacks to be piled in heaps more than 3½ metres in
height. Special rooms separated from other workrooms shall be
provided for storage of slag powder in sacks. Only the sacks
representing the previous day’s production may be stored in the
grinding rooms.
Basic slag in powder and not in sacks shall be kept in special
storage rooms shut off entirely from other workrooms. No person
shall enter such storage rooms when they are being filled or
emptied. Discharging the contents of the sacks into them shall
be done under exhaust ventilation.
11. The floors of the workrooms described in Para. 1 shall be
cleaned before the commencement of each shift or in an interval
during each shift. No person except those engaged in cleaning
shall be present during the operation. If cleaning is effected
by sweeping, the occupier shall require the persons doing it to
wear the respirators provided or other protection for the mouth
and nose.
12. The occupier shall not permit the workers to bring spirits
into the factory.
13. A lavatory and cloakroom and, separated from them and in
a part of the building free from dust, a meal room shall be
provided. These rooms shall be kept clean, free from dust, and
be heated during the winter.
In the lavatory and cloakroom water, soap, and towels shall be
provided and adequate arrangements shall be made for keeping
the clothing taken off before commencing work.
The occupier shall give the persons employed opportunity to
take a warm bath daily before leaving work in a bathroom
erected inside the factory and heated during the winter.
14. No woman or male young person under eighteen years of age
shall work or remain in a room into which basic slag is brought.
Persons under eighteen years of age shall not be employed in
beating sacks which have contained basic slag.
15. No person employed in breaking or grinding, emptying,
packing, or storing basic slag, shall work more than ten hours
daily.
There shall be intervals during working hours amounting in the
aggregate to two hours, one of them lasting at least an hour.
If duration of employment daily is limited to seven hours with
never longer than four hours’ work without an interval, only
one interval of at least one hour is required.
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