SPECIFICATIONS
§ 13.141. Place.
(a) Every employer shall, without cost to his employes, provide and maintain for the protection of his employes who are engaged in the work or process of the corrosion of metallic lead into carbonate of lead, by any and all processes, or who are engaged in any work or process in the manufacture of red lead, litharge, basic lead sulphate (sublimed white lead), nitrate of lead and nitrate of soda, workrooms which shall be as follows:
(1) Adequately lighted.
(2) So ventilated and arranged that there is a continuous and sufficient change of air.
(3) Separated by walls and doors composed of fire resisting material from all departments in which the work or process is of a nondusty character.
(4) Provided with a smooth floor permitting an easy removal of dust by any of the following methods:
(i) Vacuum cleaning.
(ii) Flushing the floor with water.
(iii) Sweeping after the floor has been thoroughly sprinkled with a sufficient quantity of wet sawdust to lay all dust.
(b) Dry sweeping of the floors and walls is prohibited.
(c) The walls of all rooms shall be smooth and either painted or whitewashed at frequent intervals. Dust should be prevented from accumulating upon the walls either by vacuum cleaning or by flushing the walls with water.
(d) The daily removal of all dust from floors and walls by vacuum cleaning is recommended as the best and most economical method of cleaning.
Cross References This section cited in 34 Pa. Code § 13.147 (relating to physical examination).
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