Annual Convention of the International Association of Factory Inspectors of North America

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List of papers read at the annual conventions, included in volumes for 1908-1910.
 

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Page 54 - ... signed officially by the Chief State Factory Inspector or the Assistant Chief State Factory Inspector, and said notice may be served by delivering the same to the person upon whom service is to be had, or by leaving at his usual place of abode or business an exact copy thereof, or by sending a copy thereof to such person by...
Page 51 - Manufacturing, Mechanical, and Mercantile Establishments. SECTION 1. Every person or corporation employing females in any manufacturing, mechanical, or mercantile establishment in this commonwealth, shall provide suitable seats for the use of the females so employed, and shall permit the use of such seats by them when they are not necessarily engaged in the active duties for which they are employed.
Page 51 - Act, shall be supplied in such manner as not to create injurious drafts, nor cause the temperature of any such room or apartment to fall materially below the average temperature maintained. Provided, where lights are used which do not consume oxygen, 250 cubic feet of air space shall be deemed sufficient. All rooms or apartments of any factory, mercantile establishment, mill or workshop, having at least 2,000...
Page 52 - ... in the year, from the time when the building is opened for use in the morning until the time it is closed in the evening, except at times when the influx of natural light shall make artificial light unnecessary.
Page 50 - No employee shall take or be allowed to take food into any room or apartment in any factory, mercantile establishment, mill or workshop, where white lead, arsenic or other poisonous substances or injurious or noxious fumes, dusts or gases under harmful conditions are present, as the result of the business conducted by such factories, mercantile establishments, mills or workshops, and notice to this effect shall be posted in each room or apartment. Employees shall not remain in any such room or apartment...
Page 56 - All hatchways, elevator wells, or other openings in floors shall be properly enclosed or guarded. 7. The premises must be kept in a clean and sanitary condition. 8. Ample and separate toilet facilities for each sex shall be provided, and toilet rooms must be kept clean, well ventilated, and well lighted.
Page 55 - Act, and the inspection required by such ordinances has been made, then and in every such case such inspection shall be accepted by the Chief State Factory Inspector, the Assistant Chief State Factory Inspector and the deputy factory inspectors as a compliance in that respect with the provisions of this Act ; and it shall be the duty of the person for whom such inspection has been made to furnish the Chief State Factory Inspector, or his assistant or deputies, with a copy of the report of inspection...
Page 54 - Inspector to enforce the provisions of this Act, and to prosecute all violations of the same before any magistrate or any court of competent jurisdiction in this State.
Page 50 - ... inches from any fixed structure, not being part of the machine, if the space over which it runs out is a space through which any employee is liable to pass, whether in the course of his employment or otherwise.
Page 54 - Provided, that whenever any secret process is used- in any factory, mercantile establishment, mill or workshop the owner shall, whenever asked by the Chief State Factory Inspector or the Assistant Chief State Factory Inspector...

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