Factories and Shops Act Amendment Act 1923 (WA)

FACTORIES AND SHOPS.

14° GEO. V., No. XIX.

No. 41 of 1923.

AN ACT to further amend the Factories and Shops

Act, 1920.

[Assented to 22nd December, 1923.]

Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, inB E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by

and with the advice and consent of the Legislative

this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of

the same, as follows:-

1. This Act may be cited as the Factories and Shops Act sho,

Amendment Act, 1923, and shall be read as one with the Fac- tories and Shops Act, 1920, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

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Provisions appli.	2. A section is inserted in the principal Act, and shall
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78a. (1.) In every factory where white lead, red lead,

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litharge, or other compounds of lead, mercurial, or arseni-

cal preparations are manufactured or produced

(a)	Suitable washing and bathing conveniences shall be provided by the occupier for the use of the employees ;
(b)	The occupier shall not allow any employee to take a meal in any :oom in which such substance is used, and suitable provision shall be made by the occupier for enabling the employees to take their meals elsewhere than in the factory;

(c.) and if the roasting, conversion, manufacture, production, or treatment of lead or arsenical ore by any process is carried on, masks and rubber gloves shall be provided by the occupier for use by the employees, and shall be kept efficient.

The occupier of any factory shall forthwith send written notice to the nearest inspector whenever it comes to his knowledge that any employee is suffering from lead or arsenical poisoning, and such notice shall state the name and address of the employee.

(2.)

See Regulations of	(3.) The Governor may, by regulations
1921 under Sec. 79,
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19R (Inspl.).	(a)	require employees in a factory where lead, arsenic, or other poisonous substance is used, to be examined at such intervals as may be prescribed by the Commissioner of Public Health or some duly qualified medical prac- titioner appointed by him, who shall have power to order suspension from such employ- ment; provided that such examination shall be without charge to the occupier or em- ployee;
(b)	prohibit the employment of any person in such factory after suspension without the sanction of a medical practitioner ;
(c)	require every employee to forthwith notify the occupier as to any symptoms which lead such employee to believe that he has contracted poisoning of any land, and require the °mu. pier to record such notification in a health register to be kept at the factory for that purpose;

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(d)	require the occupier of the factory to provide and maintain sufficient and suitable overalls and head-coverings, and clean respirators, and to cause them to be worn; and at the end of every day's work to be collected and kept in a suitable place set apart for the purpose, and to be thoroughly washed every week, and those which have been used in the stoves to be washed daily;
(e)	require the occupier to provide and maintain, for the use of employees, suitable accommoda- tion for clothing put off during working hours, with adequate arrangements for drying the clothing if wet; the cloak-room to be separate from the meal-room;

( f ) require the occupier to allow to each worker at

least ten minutes, in addition to the regular meal time, for washing before each meal, and before the end of the day's work;

(g)	require the meal-room, cloak-room, baths, and sanitary conveniences to be placed under the charge of a responsible person, and to be kept clean;
(h)	require the floors of the factory to be cleaned

daily, after being thoroughly damped;

(i)    require that no occupier shall permit an em- ployee to partake of a meal in and upon the factory;

(j) require the occupier to provide for the em- ployees such suitable drink as may be pre- scribed as an antidote to poisons inhaled or ingested; and

(k) provide generally for any matters necessary to

give effect to this section.

3. Section one hundred and nineteen of the principal Act Amendment of

is hereby amended by the excision of the word "and," in the sixth line of the section, and the substitution of the word "until.",