Section 47.193. Workrooms

(a) Heat. Workrooms shall be adequately heated and ventilated by natural or mechanical means, and maintained at all times in a clean and sanitary condition.

(b) Windows. Workrooms shall have adequate light in all places where work is carried on, and windows shall be constructed to open for ventilation.

(c) Ventilation. Ventilation shall be secured through openings to the outer air so as to prevent drafts endangering the health or comfort of employes.

(d) Lighting. Artificial lighting shall have adequate intensity for each operation carried on, and lighting fixtures shall be fitted to minimize glare. Artificial lighting shall conform to the requirements of Chapter 27 (relating to lighting). When employes go off duty during the dark hours, lights shall be kept burning until they are safely out of the building.

(e) Floors. Floors of all rooms, where lead is used or handled, shall have smooth, even surfaces, permitting an easy removal of dust by vacuum cleaning, by flushing the floor with water or by sweeping after the floor has been sprinkled with a sufficient quantity of water, wet sawdust or other wet nonpoisonous material to lay all dust. Dry sweeping of the floors is prohibited.

(f) Furniture. Stands, racks or other articles of furniture shall be placed to avoid spaces between them which cannot be reached for cleaning and shall be so fixed to the floor that no dust may accumulate below them; or, installed with feet of sufficient height permitting the floor beneath them to be easily cleaned.

(g) Type cases. Type cases shall be cleaned under an exhaust hood, by vacuum cleaner, or outside the workroom in the open air. The use of bellows for blowing out dust in the room is prohibited.

(h) Expectorating. No person shall expectorate or spit upon the walls, floors or stairs of any building.

(i) Cuspidors. Cuspidors shall be provided without expense to the employes and shall be thoroughly cleaned each day or more often if necessary to maintain them in a sanitary condition.

(j) Flushed with air. Workrooms in which lead, chemicals or other poisonous substances are used or in which injurious fumes, dust, or gases are present, shall be thoroughly flushed with air each working day.

(k) Wiping rags. Wiping rags shall be of unstained, clean-washed and sterilized materials, free from buttons, pins or other obstructions.

(l) Waste cans. A nonleak receptacle of waterproof material equipped with a tight fitting cover, shall be provided in each workroom. All waste, liquid refuse and all other material which may either decay or have an offensive odor shall be deposited within this receptacle. This receptacle shall be kept covered except when material is being either deposited in it or removed from it; it shall be emptied and cleaned daily or more often if necessary to maintain it in a sanitary condition.

(m) First aid kit. Each establishment shall have available at all times and without expense to employes an approved first aid kit.

(n) Containers. Dross skimming from molten lead pots shall be poured as soon as practical into a container provided for this purpose. The container shall have a lid, and shall be kept closed except when it is either filled or emptied.

(o) Gas pipe joints. Gas pipe joints connected with gas heated machines shall be examined at least once each day to prevent air pollution from leaking gas.

(p) Lead. Employes shall be instructed to drop lead carefully into metal pots and to exercise care in avoiding the making of lead dust.