Section 3. Every employer shall, without cost to the employees, provide the following devices, means, and methods for the protection of his employees, who, while engaged in any work or process included in section two, are exposed to lead dusts, lead fumes, or lead solutions:--
(a) The employer shall provide and maintain workrooms, adequately lighted and ventilated, and so arranged that there is a continuous and sufficient change of air; and all such rooms shall be fully separated by partition walls from all departments in which the work or process is of non-dusty character; and all such rooms shall be provided with a floor permitting an easy removal of dust by wet methods or vacuum cleaning, and all such floors shall be so cleaned daily.
Every work or process referred to in section two, including the corroding or oxidizing of lead, and the crushing, mixing, sifting, grinding, and packing of all lead salts or other compounds referred to in section two, shall be so conducted, and such adequate devices provided and maintained by the employer, as to protect the employee as far as possible from contact with lead dust or lead fumes. Every kettle, vessel, receptacle, or furnace in which lead, in any form referred to in section two, is being melted or treated, and any place where the contents of such kettles, receptacles, or furnaces are discharged, shall be provided with a hood connected with an efficient air-exhaust; all vessels or containers, in which dry lead in any chemical form or combination referred to in section two is being conveyed from one place to another within the factory, shall be equipped, at the places where the same are filled or discharged, with hoods having connection with an efficient air-exhaust; and all hoppers, chutes, conveyors, elevators, separators, vents from separators, dumps, pulverizers, chasers, dry-pans, or other apparatus for drying pulp lead, dry-pans, dump, and all barrel packers and cars, or other receptacles into which corrosions are at the time being emptied, shall be connected with an efficient dust-collecting system; such system to be regulated by the discharge of air from a fan, pump, or other apparatus, either through a cloth dust-collector, having an area of not less than one-half square foot of cloth to every cubic foot of air passing through it per minute, the dust-collector to be placed in a separate room, which no employee shall be required or allowed to enter except for essential repairs while the works are in operation, or such other apparatus as will efficiently remove the lead dusts from the air of the workrooms.
(b) The employer shall provide a wash-room, or rooms, which shall be separate from the workrooms, be kept clean, and be equipped with:
(1) Lavatory basins, fitted with waste-pipes and two spigots conveying hot and cold water; or
(2) Basins placed in troughs fitted with waste-pipes, and for each basin two spigots conveying hot and cold water; or
(3) Troughs of enamel, or similar smooth impervious material, fitted with waste pipes, and for every two feet of trough length two spigots conveying hot and cold water.
Where basins are provided there shall be at least one basin for every five such employees; and where troughs are provided, at least two feet of trough length for every five such employees. The employer shall also furnish nail-brushes and soap, and shall provide at least three clean towels per week for each such employee. A time allowance of not less than ten minutes, at the employer's expense, shall be made to each such employee for the use of said washroom before the lunch hour and at the close of the day's work.
The employer engaged in the manufacture of white lead, red lead, litharge, sugar of lead, arsenate of lead, lead chromate, lead sulphate, lead nitrate, or fluo-silicate shall also provide at least one shower-bath for every ten such employees. The bath shall be approached by wooden runways, be provided with movable wooden floor gratings, be supplied with controlled hot and cold water, and be kept clean. The employer shall furnish soap, and shall provide at least two clean bath towels per week for each such employee. An additional time allowance of not less than ten minutes, at the employer's expense, shall be made to each such employee for the use of said baths, at least twice a week, at the close of the day's work. The employer shall keep a record of each time that such baths are used by each employee, which record shall be open to inspection at all reasonable times by the State Department of Labor and Industry, and also by the State Department of Health.
(c) The employer shall provide a dressing-room, or rooms which shall be separate from the workrooms, be furnished with a double sanitary locker or two single sanitary lockers for each such employee, and be kept clean.
(d) The employer shall provide an eating-room or eating- rooms, which shall be separate from the workrooms, be furnished with a sufficient number of tables and seats, and be kept clean. No employee shall take, or be allowed to take, any food or drink of any kind into any workroom, nor shall any employee remain, or be allowed to remain, in any workroom during the time allowed for his meals.
(e) The employer shall provide and maintain a sufficient number of sanitary drinking-fountains, readily accessible for the use of employees.
(f) The employer shall provide at least one pair of overalls and one pair of jumpers for each such employee, and repair or renew such clothing when necessary, and wash the same weekly.
(g) The employer shall provide, and renew when necessary, at least one reasonably effective respirator for each employee who is engaged in any work or process included in section two.