Prevention
of bodily absorption of radio- active substances.
Prohibition of the use of mouth- nperated equipment.
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contamination for the use of any person employed in any work or process involving the regular handling of any unsealed radioactive substance or any containers of such substance, and shall direct any such person to make adequate use of such facilities.
(2) (a) Any proprietor of any affected undertaking or affected industrial undertaking who fails to comply with any of the provisions of paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars. (b) Any person who fails to comply with any direction given by the proprietor of any affected undertaking or affected industrial undertaking given pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars.
28. (1) No person shall, in any affected undertaking or affected industrial undertaking, introduce into any wrokplace in which any radioactive substance is handled any article not essential to the processes performed in that workplace and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, no food or drink, or utensil for the partaking of food or drink, or any materials or articles for smoking or for the application of cosmetics shall be so introduced.
(2) Every worker employed in any affected undertaking or affected industrial undertaking who is engaged in the handling of any radio- active substance shall-
(a) wash his hands before each meal; and
(6) before leaving his place of work, deposit all personal protec
tive equipment in the locker or receptacle, as the case may be, provided therefor in accordance with sub-paragraph (e). (g) or (A) of paragraph (1) of regulation 25 and thereafter wash his hands.
(3) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of para- graph (1) and any worker who fails to comply with any of the provi sions of paragraph (2) shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars.
29. (0) No proprietor of any affected undertaking or affected industrial undertaking shall cause or permit any person employed therein in work involving the bandling of any unsealed radioactive sub- stance to operate by means of his mouth any plant, apparatus or other equipment whatsoever.
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(2) Any proprietor of any affected undertaking or affected indus- trial undertaking who contravenes any of the provisions of paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars.
PART V1.
SUPERVISION.
34. (1) The proprietor of any affected undertaking or affected Supervision. industrial undertaking shall appoint a person having reasonable experi- ence or training in the use of ionizing radiations or the handling of radioactive substances to supervise any work carried on in such under- taking which involves such use or such handling.
(2) Any proprietor of any affected undertaking or affected indus- trial undertaking who fails to comply with any of the provisions of paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary con- viction to a fine of two thousand dollars.
31. (1) If so required by the Authority, either generally by noti- Waming fication in the Gazette or in any particular case by requeal in writing ionizing
notices where addressed to the proprietor, the proprietor of any affected undertaking radiations or affected industrial undertaking, as the case may be, shall post such notices as the Authority may require to be posted in any place in the undertaking in which ionizing radiations are used.
(2) The proprictor of any affected undertaking or affected indus- trial undertaking who fails to post any notice referred to in paragrapb (1) when so required in accordance with the provisions of that para- graph shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summury conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars.
are used.
event of
32. (1) In the event of spillage or other loss of any radioactive Action to be substance in any affected undertaking or affected industrial undertaking taken in the or in the course of any form of transportation or of any other occur- spillage, rence in any such undertaking, whether accidental or otherwise, of less, etc. such a nature that the safety or health of any person is or may be adversely affected thereby, the proprietor of such undertaking, or the carrier in the case of transportation, sball, so soon as the fact of such spillage, loss or occurrence comes to his attention, cause a report of the circumstances to be made to the Authority, and, if such report is made verbally, it shall be followed by a report in writing made within forty- right hours thereafter.