This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...of machinery were not taken cognisance of by law until 1844, and then chiefly owing to the representations of the inspectors. Protected workers were prohibited from cleaning machinery, and dangerous portions "near to which any child or young person was liable to pass" must be securely fenced. These regulations were ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...of machinery were not taken cognisance of by law until 1844, and then chiefly owing to the representations of the inspectors. Protected workers were prohibited from cleaning machinery, and dangerous portions "near to which any child or young person was liable to pass" must be securely fenced. These regulations were relaxed in 1856, in deference to an outcry against "meddling legislation," but again made more stringent in 1878. In the cotton trade special enactments have been made as to the carrying away dust by a fan or other mechanical means (1864 and 1867), and the temperature and humidity regulated (1889). Rules have been imposed (1878, etc.) as to sanitation, separate accommodation for the sexes, and so forth. The Act of 1878 also prohibits overcrowding a factory or workshop so "as to be dangerous or injurious to the health of the persons employed," and the Act of 1895 defined overcrowding to be "a proportion of less than 250 or during any period of overtime, 400 cubic feet of space to each person." In the especially dangerous white lead industry, elaborate requirements are made for ventilation, lavatory accommodation, baths, overalls and respirators, and various other means to mitigate the danger the operatives are exposed to. Children and young persons are forbidden to work in this industry at all, and women are excluded, by special rules, from working in the most dangerous process, since 1898. By the Act of 1891 notice was required to be given to the Inspector by the occupier of the opening or occupation of all workshops, including those in which only adult men are employed, and power was given to the Secretary of State to make special rules for dangerous trades, "either generally or in the case of women, ...
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