43 P.S. § 474 Protective Devices and Methods to Be Adopted

• Library: Pennsylvania Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through P.A. Acts 2023-21
• Year: 2023
• Citation: 43 P.S. § 474

Every employer shall, without cost to the employes, provide the following devices, means, and methods for the protection of his employes, who, while engaged in any work or process included in section two, are exposed to lead dusts, lead fumes, or lead solutions:--

(a) The employer shall provide and maintain work-rooms, adequately lighted and ventilated, and so arranged that there is a continuous and sufficient change of air; and all such rooms shall be fully separated by partition walls from all departments in which the work or process is of non-dusty character; and all such rooms shall be provided with a floor permitting an easy removal of dust by wet methods or vacuum cleaning, and all such floors shall be so cleaned daily.

Every work or process referred to in section two, including the corroding or oxidizing of lead, and the crushing, mixing, sifting, grinding, and packing of all lead salts or other compounds referred to in section two, shall be so conducted, and such adequate devices provided and maintained by the employer, as to protect the employe as far as possible from contact with lead dust or lead fumes. Every kettle, vessel, receptacle, or furnace in which lead, in any form referred to in section two, is being melted or treated, and any place where the contents of such kettles, receptacles, or furnaces are discharged, shall be provided with a hood connected with an efficient air-exhaust; all vessels or containers, in which dry lead in any chemical form or combination referred to in section two is being conveyed from one place to another within the factory, shall be equipped, at the places where the same are filled or discharged, with hoods having connection with an efficient air-exhaust; and all hoppers, chutes, conveyors, elevators, separators, vents from separators, dumps, pulverizers, chasers, dry-pans, or other apparatus for drying pulp lead, dry-pans, dump, and all barrel packers and cars, or other receptacles into which corrosions are at the time being emptied, shall be connected with an efficient dust-collecting system; such system to be regulated by the discharge of air from a fan, pump, or o...

(b) The employer shall provide a wash-room, or rooms, which shall be separate from the workrooms, be kept clean, and be equipped with:

(1) Lavatory basins, fitted with waste-pipes and two spigots conveying hot and cold water; or

(2) Basins placed in troughs fitted with waste-pipes, and for each basin two spigots conveying hot and cold water; or