Regulation 9.—The employer shall issue regulations which shall be binding on the workers, and shall contain the following provisions for such workers as handle lead colour and mixtures thereof:
1. Workers shall not consume spirits in any place where work is carried on.
2. Workers shall not partake of food or drink, or leave the place of employment until they have put off their working clothes and carefully washed their hands.
3. Workers, when engaged in processes specified by the employer, shall wear working clothes.
4. Smoking cigars and cigarettes is prohibited during work.
Furthermore, it shall be set forth in the regulations that workers who, in spite of reiterated warning, contravene the foregoing provisions may be dismissed before the expiration of their contract without notice. If a code of regulations has been issued for the industry (par. 134a of the G.O.) the above indicated provisions shall be incorporated in the said code.
Regulation 10.—The employer shall entrust the supervision of the workers’ health to a duly qualified medical man approved of by the public authority, and notified to the factory inspector (par. 139b of the G.O.), and the said medical man shall examine the workers once at least in every six months for symptoms indicative of plumbism.
The employer shall not permit any worker who is suffering from plumbism or who, in the opinion of the doctor, is suspected of plumbism, to be employed in any work in which he has to handle lead colours or mixtures thereof, until he has completely recovered.
Regulation 11.—The employer shall keep or shall cause to be kept a register in which shall be recorded the state of health of the workers, and also the constitution of and changes in the staff; and he shall be responsible for the entries being complete and accurate, except in so far as they are affected by the medical man.
Then follow the regulations as to entries in the Register, as to which see the Regulations as to lead smelting works, p. [300].