FACTORIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 74 Provisions as to employment of women and young persons in processes involving use of lead compounds.

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FACTORIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 74

Provisions as to employment of women and young persons in processes involving use of lead compounds.

74.(1) A woman or young person shall not be employed in any factory in any
process involving the use of lead compounds if the process is such that dust
or fume from a lead compound is produced therein, or the persons employed
therein are liable to be splashed with any lead compound in the course of
their employment, unless the following provisions are complied with as
respects all women and young persons employed

(a)where dust or fume from a lead compound is produced in the process,
provision shall be made for drawing the dust or fume away from the persons
employed by means of an efficient exhaust draught so contrived as to operate
on the dust or fume as nearly as may be at its point of origin;

(b)the persons employed shall undergo the prescribed medical examination at
the prescribed intervals, and the prescribed record shall be kept with respect
to their health;

(c)no food, drink or tobacco shall be brought into or consumed in any room in
which the process is carried on, and no person shall be allowed to remain in
any such room during meal times;

(d)suitable protective clothing in a clean condition shall be provided by
the occupier and worn by the persons employed;

(e)such suitable cloak-room, mess-room and washing accommodation as may be
prescribed shall be provided for the use of the persons employed;

(f)the rooms in which the persons are employed, and all tools and apparatus
used by them, shall be kept in a clean state.

[(2) If, in the case of a woman or young person who is employed in a factory
in a process involving the use of lead compounds, an employment medical
adviser serves on the occupier of the factory a written notice stating that,
in the opinion of the adviser, the continued employment of that woman or
young person in that process would involve special danger to her or his
health, it shall not be lawful for that woman or young person to be employed
in any such process in that factory, unless the notice has been cancelled by a
further written notice served on the occupier by an employment medical
adviser.]

(3) The method of ascertaining whether any compound or mixture is a
lead compound within the meaning of this section shall be such as may be
prescribed.

(4) In this section "prescribed" means prescribed by regulations made by
the Ministry, and "lead compound" means any soluble compound of lead which is
declared by regulations of the Ministry to be a lead compound for the purposes
of this section, and includes a mixture containing any such compound, but does
not include an alloy containing lead.

S.75 rep. by SR 1979/246

Prohibition of sale of materials and of articles made with materials
prohibited by United Kingdom Act.

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FACTORIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 74