57 120 LATEST ACTION ON BILLS. Senate. (For Senate Bills in House--Sse Houee.) House Bills Referred to Senate Committees. (Appropriations). 375 270 (Judiciary General). 324 (Appropriations). Bill Passed First Reading and Re-committed. 244 (Mines and Mining). Bills Passed Second Reading. State Industrial Board RULING ON PROTECTION FROM DUST. Employers shall furnish approved respirators for the use of workers in dusty rooms and those engaged in sorting rubbish, and shall furnish gloves to protect the hands of workers engaged in sorting rubbish. Convenient and adequate bathing facilities for employes engaged in dusty occupations should be provided. Employes shall wear respirators when working over movable conveyors containing rubbish, or in dusty rooms. Gloves shall be used by employes when sorting rubbish. Women shall wear a tight fitting cap while sorting rubbish to protect the hair from infected dust. For the protection of their families and the public employes in rubbish sorting rooms should not return home in the clothes used at work. Washable clothes should be worn at work, a bath taken before leaving the factory where this is possible, and other clothes than those worn while at work put on before going home. A uniform similar to those provided for street cleaners in the large cities is recommended to the attention of employers. For women a sailor blouse suit or smock, tight-fitting at the neck, is suitable. RULINGS PRELIMINARY TO FORMULATION OF SAFETY CODE FOR PROTECTION OF EYES OF WORKERS. 1. Employers shall supply approved safety goggles or helmets to all employes engaged in any of the following operations: Dry grinding (except on a wheel equipped with a hood and effective exhaust system as provided in Safety Standards, Volume 1, No. 6). Chipping metal or stone. Reaming. Rivetting and cutting rivets. Forging (except drop forging). Welding. Casting and pouring metal. Sand blasting. Manufacturing or handling vicious acids. 2. Employes shall wear approved safety goggles or helmets at all times while engaged in any of the above operations. 3. Violation of either of the above sections by either employer or employe shall be considered a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) or imprisonment of not more than one month or both at the discretion of the court. |