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Section 292.330. Employees to be examined monthly by physician. "Every employer engaged in carrying on any process or manufacture referred to in section 292.310 shall, as often as once every calendar month, cause all employees who come into direct contact with the poisonous agencies or injurious processes ... to be examined by a competent licensed and reputable physician for the purpose of ascertaining if there exists in any employee any industrial or occupational disease or illness or any disease or illness due or incident to the character of the work in which the employee is engaged."

Sections 292.340 and 292.350. Provide for reporting of occupational diseases by physicians to the Division of Health. See reference to these sections under reporting of occupational diseases for Division of Health of Missouri.

Section 292.360. Employer to provide dressing rooms, lavatories, etc. Employers referred to in section 292.310 are required to provide separate, and apart from workshops, a dressing room and washing facilities, for use of exposed employees.

Section 292.370. Drinking fountains, ice water, etc. to be provided employees. Prohibits the taking of food or drink into workrooms in which processes referred to in section 292.310 are carried on; and requires separate eating places and sanitary drinking fountains.

Section 292.380. Work rooms to be kept in sanitary condition. “All employers... shall provide and maintain adequate devices for carrying off all poisonous or injurious fumes from any furnaces which may be employed in any such process or manufacture or labor, and shall also provide and maintain adequate and efficient facilities for carrying off all injurious dust, and the floors . . . shall be kept and maintained in a smooth and hard condition, and no sweeping shall be permitted during working hours except where the floor in such work shop is dampened so as to prevent the raising of dust; and all ore, slag, dross and fume shall be kept in some room or apartment separate from the work rooms occupied by the employees, and all mixing and weighing of such ore, slag, dross or fume shall be done in such separate room or apartment, and all such material shall be dampened or covered before being handled or transported by employees." Section 292.390. Prevention of dust. "When any flues are other apparatus are used in any such process or manufacture or labor referred to in section 292.310, or other apparatus are being cleaned or emptied, the employer shall in every case provide and maintain a sufficient, adequate and efficient means or device, such as canvas bags or other approved device, or by dampening the dust, or some other efficient method for catching and collecting the dust and preventing it from unreasonably fouling or polluting the air in which the employees are obliged to work, and, wherever practicable, the dust occasioned in any process or manufacture referred to in section 292.310, and in any polishing or finishing therein, shall be dampened or wet down or covered, and every reasonable precaution shall be adopted by the employer to prevent the unnecessary creation or raising of dust, and all floors shall be washed or scrubbed at least once every working day; and such parts of the work or process as are especially dangerous to the employees, on account of poisonous fumes, dusts and gases, shall, where practicable, be carried on in separate rooms and under cover of some suitable and efficient device to remove the danger to the health of such employees as far as may be reasonably consistent with the manufacturing process, and the fixtures and tools employed in such process or manufacture or labor, shall be thoroughly washed and cleaned at reasonable intervals.”

Section 292.400. Hoppers, chutes, etc. to be provided with covering. "All hoppers or chutes . . . shall be provided with a hood or covering, and an adequate and efficient apparatus for the purpose of drawing away from employees, noxious, poisonous or injurious dusts, and preventing the employees from coming into unnecessary contact therewith; and all conveyances and receptacles . . . shall be properly covered or dampened in such a way as to protect the health of employees.

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Section 292.410. Duty of director of division of industrial inspection. Provides for power of entry to visit and make inspections for enforcement of sections 292.300 to 292.440.

Section 292.420. Notices to be posted in rooms-to contain, what. Requires the posting of warning notices by employer when processes are dangerous to health, and of simple instructions for avoiding, so far as possible, injurious

consequences.

Section 292.430. Prescribes penalties for violations of the preceding sections. Construction Work

Sections 292.450 to 292.540. Regulate safety of construction workers in cities with populations of 50,000 or more.

Industrial Homework

Sections 292.550 to 292.570. Regulate working conditions in tenement factories, providing for inspections by the Director and tagging of articles so made. Penalty for violation.

Bakeries and Confectioneries

Sections 196.270 to 196.305. Require every bakery or confectionery shop "to be drained and plumbed in a manner conducive to the proper healthful and sanitary condition thereof, and constructed with air shafts, windows or ventilating pipes sufficient to insure ventilation." Persons affected with contagious diseases or communicable skin affections are forbidden to work in such places, and all others are required to have certificates of health. All such places are required to comply with necessary sanitary conditions. Penalty for violation. Rules and Regulations

None specifically.

Employment of Women and Minors

Among pertinent provisions are the following:

Section 290.40. Regulates hours of employment of women in specified industries.

Section 290.060. Prohibits employment of women in industries specified in section 290.040 within 3 weeks before or 3 weeks after childbirth. Penalty for violation.

Section 290.070. Empowers the Division of Industrial Inspection to enforce sections 290.040 and 290.050, and to have right of entry for making inspections and charge a fee as provided for.

Section 292.040. Prohibits any minor or woman to clean any part of machinery while in motion, and to be required to work between fixed and traversing parts of power machinery.

Section 292.100. Requires every factory or workshop employing women and children and where dusty work is carried on to be limewashed or painted at least once in every 12 months.

Section 292.150. Requires provision of washrooms for women in establishments where unclean work is being performed, and stairs used by them to be properly screened.

Section 292.170. Requires employers to provide suitable seats for women and to permit their use when duties allow it.

Sections 294.010 and 294.020. Prohibit employment of children under 14 and 16 to be employed at any gainful occupation, except as provided for.

Section 294.040. Prohibits employment of children under 16 in specified occupations, including some construction work, operation of railway cars, and "in any other occupation dangerous to the life, health or limb, or injurious to the health or morals."

Section 294.090. Empowers the Director of the Division of Industrial Inspection to enforce child labor laws.

Section 564.670. Prohibits employment of children under 16 in specified occupations including the operation of any power machinery, in mines or underground work, in connection with processes using acids or alkalis, the manufacture of paints, colors, or white lead, matches and explosives, and in operating certain industrial machinery. Penalty for violation.

Mines and Mining

Sections 293.010 to 293.620. Contain mine and cave safety and inspection laws which are enforced by the Division of Mine Inspection. Sections covering coal mines include regulation of construction of escapement shafts; requirements for ventilation including volume of air per man and animal, provision of suitable appliances, and supply of separate air currents; inspections of mines generating explosive gases; handling and storage of explosives; restrictions as to oils for illuminating purposes; lowering and hoisting of miners and inspection of hoisting equipment; observance of safety rules by workmen; pillaring and timbering; and provision of washhouses in mines employing 10 or more men, to be equipped and maintained as specified and approved by the Division.

Sections relating to lead and zinc mines include provision of washrooms and lockers in every lead or zinc mine; inspections by inspectors at any reasonable time and upon complaint, and issuance of orders for corrections; examinations for safety and ventilation; suppression of dust by sprinkling; and closing of dangerous mines.

Sections relating to all mines cover appointment and duties of coal mine, and lead and zinc mine inspectors; qualifications of miners; and investigation of accidents.

Sections relating to caves empower the Division of Mine Inspection to make inspections of all caves in the State open to the public, and to make rules and regulations providing for the necessary precautions to secure the health and safety of the visiting public and employees.

Penalties for violations of the provisions are prescribed.

Reporting of Injuries

Section 292.190. All accidents to be reported. Requires employers in all manufacturing, mercantile or other establishments to report accidents causing absence from work of 4 days or longer, or which result in death, to the Division of Industrial Inspection and "also to the city or county physician, when there be such an officer."

Workmen's Compensation

The Workmen's Compensation Law is administered by the Division of Workmen's Compensation. (Sections 287.010 to 287.800)

Occupational Disease Compensation

Section 287.020. Full coverage-elective.

Provision for Reporting Injuries

Section 287.380. Requires every employer, whether he has accepted or rejected the provisions of this chapter, to report accidents resulting in death and personal injury to the Industrial Commission in accordance with rules and regulations established. Penalty for violation.

Vocational Rehabilitation 1

Section 287.141. Establishes a Board of Rehabilitation to be composed of 3 members of the Industrial Commission and the Director of Workmen's Compensation; empowers it to make necessary rules and regulations for carrying out the purposes of this section; authorizes it to study problems of physical rehabilitation and investigate and approve facilities for rendering competent physical rehabilitation service for seriously injured industrial workers; and provides for financial assistance of persons while actually being rehabilitated and for holding hearings regarding disagreement as to treatment.

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

Vocational Rehabilitation

Sections 162.280 to 162.320. The provisions and benefits of the Federal Act relating to the promotion of vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or otherwise are accepted. The State Board of Education is empowered to cooperate with the Federal Board; to prescribe necessary courses and provide necessary training; to formulate a plan of cooperation with the Missouri Workmen's Compensation Commission; and to receive gifts and expend funds for this purpose.

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

The Public Service Commission has jurisdiction over railroads and other common carriers, and power and communications utilities.

Section 386.310. Empowers the Public Service Commission upon complaint, or orders and rules, to require every public utility to maintain and operate its plant, equipment and premises in such manner as to promote and safeguard the health and safety of its employees and the public, and to prescribe, among other things, the installation, use, maintenance and operation of appropriate safety or other devices or appliances and to require the performance of any other act which the health or safety of its employees, passengers, customers or the public may demand.

Section 391.250. Requires stools or seats to be provided for conductors or

motormen.

Section 391.260. Requires heaters to be provided for motormen and conductors of electrical railways.

Section 564.330. Requires protection for street car operators against cold weather.

1 See also under State Board of Education.

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SOURCE: Revised Codes of Montana 1947 Annotated, as amended

STATE BOARD OF HEALTH

Authority and Functions

Revised Codes of Montana 1947 Annotated, Section 69-105. Powers and duties of board. "The state board of health shall have general supervision of the interests and health and life of the citizens of the state . . . they shall make sanitary investigations and inquiries regarding the causes of disease, and especially communicable diseases and epidemics; the causes of mortality, and the effects of localities, employments, conditions, ingesta, habits, and circumstances of the health of the people . . . they shall . . . advise officers of the government, or other boards within the state, in regard to location, drainage, water-supply, disposal of excreta, heating, and ventilation of any public institution or building; they shall have general oversight and direction of the enforcement of the statutes respecting the preservation of the health and the prevention of the spread of communicable diseases.

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Section 69-107. Power to make and enforce rules and regulations. "The state board of health shall have power to promulgate and enforce such rules and regulations for the better preservation of the public health in contagious and epidemic diseases as it shall deem necessary, and also regarding the causes and prevention of diseases, and their development and spread. .

Section 69-201. Creation of division of industrial hygiene in state board of health. "There is hereby created and established within the state board of health of the State of Montana a division of industrial hygiene. . .

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Section 69-202. Powers. "The division of industrial hygiene shall have the following powers: (1) To make studies of industrial hygiene and occupational disease problems in the industries of Montana;

“(2) To keep and maintain complete records of its studies, recommendations and other activities;

“(3) To make investigations of the sanitary conditions under which the men and women work in the various industries of the State;

"(4) To make and enforce regulations for the correction of unsanitary conditions found;

"(5) To report to the industries concerned the findings of such investigations and to work with such industries to remedy unsanitary conditions;

"(6) To employ such help as may be necessary to make the investigations and enforce the regulations and as is justified by the appropriation."

Section 69-204. Investigating reports of occupational diseases. "Whenever the secretary of the division of industrial hygiene receives a report that there is within the State of Montana a case of occupational disease, or a death caused by occupational disease, he may cause an investigation to be made to determine the authenticity of the report and the cause of the disease."

Section 27-112. Duties and powers of state board of health. Authorizes the State Board of Health to promulgate rules and regulations relative to the sanitary arrangements of food establishments, and with local health officers to enforce provisions of the Pure Food and Drug Act.

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