Occupational Health and Safety Legislation: A Compilation of State Laws and RegulationsU.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Bureau of State Services, Division of Special Health Services, Occupational Health Program, 1954 - 315 pages |
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Page 2 - Labor shall be to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment.
Page 23 - Mines, or (b) Of such opacity as to obscure an observer's view to a degree equal to or greater than does smoke described in subsection (a) of this Rule.
Page 12 - Health may, from time to time, after a hearing . . . determine what other occupations are sufficiendy dangerous to the life or limb or injurious to the health or morals of children...
Page 122 - Deputy factory inspectors shall report to the commissioner of labor at such time and manner as he may require. It shall also be the duty of the factory inspectors to enforce all the provisions of this act and to prosecute all violations of the same before a magistrate or In a court of competent Jurisdiction in this state.
Page 121 - They shall, when required, or when they deem it best, advise officers of the government, or other State boards, in regard to the location, drainage, water supply, disposal of excreta, heating and ventilation of any public institution or building.
Page 147 - ... the installation, use, maintenance and operation of appropriate safety or other devices or appliances, including interlocking and other protective devices at grade crossings or junctions and block...
Page 164 - They shall make sanitary investigations and inquiries in respect to the people, the causes of disease, and especially of epidemics, and the sources of mortality, and the effects of localities, employments, conditions, and circumstances, on the public health...
Page 22 - ... or any particular method of carrying on such trade, process of manufacture or occupation, is sufficiently dangerous to the lives or limbs or injurious to the health or morals of children under sixteen years of age to justify their exclusion therefrom.
Page 130 - ... shall be properly lighted, drained, plumbed, and ventilated and conducted with strict regard to the influence of such...
Page 64 - ... apparatus, tracks and premises in such manner as to promote and safeguard the health and safety of its employees, passengers, customers, and the public, and to this...