Pennsylvania Code › Title 34 - LABOR AND INDUSTRY › Part I - Department of Labor and Industry › Chapter 47 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS › Subchapter F - PRINTING AND RELATED INDUSTRIES › GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 47.193 - Workrooms

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
(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.