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Ordinance on Prevention of Lead Poisoning

(Special Ordinance of September 30, 1972)
(Ministry of Labour Ordinance No. 37)

Chapter IV.  Management

Section 4.  Preservation of Cleanliness, etc.

(Rest Room)
  1. Article 45.The employer who has workers engage in lead work shall install a rest room at a location other than the lead workshop.
  2. The employer shall take the following measures for the rest room stated in the precedingparagraph:
    1. Install equipment such as flushing with water and wet mats at the entrance so that dust of lead, etc., or sintered ore, etc., sticking to the feet of the workers can be removed before entering the room.
    2. Install brushes for clothes at the entrance.
    3. Make the floor structure easy to clean with a vacuum cleaner or flushing with water.
  3. Workers who were engaged in the lead work shall remove dust of lead, etc., or sintered ore, etc., sticking to their clothes before entering the rest room stated in paragraph 1.
(Storage of Work Clothes)

Article 46.The employer shall set up facilities for storing respiratory protective equipment, occupational health protective clothes or work clothes which the employer has the workers use or wear in compliance with the provisions of Article 58 or Article 59, in conditions separated from other clothes, and shall have the said workers use the facilities.

(Body Washing Facilities)

Article 47.The employer who has workers engage in handling powdered lead, etc., or sintered ore, etc., (except the lead work stated in i) through m) of item (5) of Article 1 and item 17 of Attached Table 4 of the Enforcement Order) shall install facilities for workers to wash their bodies and allow the workers to use them whenever necessary.

(Cleaning)

Article 48.The employer shall clean at least once a day with a vacuum cleaner or water flushing an indoor workshop for lead work, rest rooms for the workers, and the floor and the like of cafeteria used by the workers for removing contamination due to lead, etc., or sintered ore, etc.

(Detergent Solutions for Hand Washing)
  1. Article 49.             The employer who has workers engage in lead work shall install the aqueous solution of nitric acid or other detergent solution for washing hands, nail brushes, soaps and gargling preparations at each workplace and shall allow the workers to use them as soon as the work is over and/or whenever necessary.
  2. Workers at the end of lead work or whenever necessary shall use the aqueous solution of nitric acid or other detergent solution for washing hands, nail brushes, soaps, and gargling preparations stated in the preceding paragraph.
(Washing Out Contamination of Work Clothes, etc.)

Article 50.The employer who has workers engage in lead work shall install washing facilities so that contaminants such as lead, etc., or sintered ore, etc., can be washed out of work clothes, etc.

(Prohibition of Smoking, etc.)
  1. Article 51.The employer shall prohibit his/her workers to smoke, eat or drink in an indoor workshop where lead work is carried out and shall post such notice at locations easily visible to the said workers.
  2. Workers shall not smoke, eat, or drink at workshop stated in the preceding paragraph.
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