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FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS ORDINANCE.

(Chapter 59).

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (BLASTING BY ABRASIVES) SPECIAL REGULATIONS 1969.

In exercise of the powers conferred by subsections (2) and (5) of section 7 of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordin- ance, the Commissioner of Labour has made the following special regulations

1. These regulations may be cited as the Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Blasting by Abrasives) Special Regula- tions 1969.

Citation.

1. In these regulations ""blasting process" means the cleaning. Interpretation. smoothing, roughening or removing of part of the surface of any substance or thing including granite, stone or brick by the use as an abrasive of a jet of sand, metal shot or grit or other material propelled by a blast of compressed air or steam or water or by a wheel.

3. (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), no person shall use sand or any other material containing free silica as an abrasive in any blasting process.

(2) If the Commissioner of Labour, or any officer authorized in writing by him, is satisfied that in any industrial undertaking the use of sand or any other material containing free silica as an abrasive in a blasting process (other than a process incidental or supplemental to the making of metal castings) is necessary in any particular case, he may by certificate in writing (which he may in his discretion revoke at any time) permit the use of the sand or other material coutaining free silica in that blasting process subject to the following conditions-

(a) that there shall be provided and maintained for the use of every person who is employed in that blasting process a protective helmet of a type approved in writing by the Commissioner or by any officer authorized in writing by the Commissioner of Labour designed to enclose the bead, face and neck of such person and every such person shall wear the helmet provided for bis use whilst be is employ- od in that blasting process; and

Restriction

on use of sand or free vilice as an abrasive in

a blasting PrOCESS.