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Owners and employers will be required to observe the following
requirements as to safety, health and welfare:—
Cleanliness
Overcrowding
Temperature
Ventilation
Lighting
Sanitary conveniences
Washing facilities
Supply of drinking water
Accommodation for clothing
Sitting facilities and seats for sedentary work
Eating facilities (shops)
Floors, passages and stairs
Fencing of exposed parts of machinery
Exposure of young persons to danger in cleaning machinery
Training and supervision of persons working at dangerous
machines
Prohibition of heavy work
First Aid
Fire precautions and means of escape
Notification of Accidents.
The Minister has power to make Regulations and is now in
the process of making them in respect of :—
1. Sanitary conveniences
2. Washing facilities
3. Dangerous machines
4. First Aid
5. Fire
6. Accidents and annual reports.
The Minister has also exercised his powers on the appointments
of Central Government Inspectors whose duty will be to
consult and advise Local Authorities so as to secure unformity
of enforcement.
It is estimated that there are one million premises affected by
the Act covering some eight million workers, a formidable task which
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