from the conditions of labor which have a pernicious effect on their health and morals, and it is therefore hereby declared, in the exercise of the police and sovereign power of the state of Colorado, that inadequate wages and unsanitary conditions of labor exert such pernicious effect." Section 182. Prohibits employment of children under 14 in specified occupations declared to be injurious or dangerous to health, life or limb. Section 184. Forbids employment of children under 16 in any underground or surface mine or workings, smelter or coke oven, or for operating or assisting with operation of certain machinery or tools, or in preparation or manufacture of any composition using dangerous or poisonous acids, or in the manufacturing of paint, colors, or white lead. Workmen's Compensation The Workmen's Compensation Act and the Colorado Occupational Disease Disability Act are administered by the Industrial Commission of Colorado. (Chapter 97, Sections 280 to 442) Occupational Disease Compensation Sections 443 to 474. Occupational Disease Disability Act. The Act lists 24 diseases considered compensable. Schedule coverage. Reporting of Injuries Section 309. Requires employers to keep records of all injuries, fatal or otherwise, received by employees in the course of their employment, and to report the occurrence of an accident resulting in personal injury to the Commission. CHIEF INSPECTOR OF COAL MINES Chapter 110, Sections 167 (1) to 167 (139). Contain Colorado State coal mining laws. The Chief Inspector of Mines and District Inspectors are vested with authority to enforce the laws. Among the subjects covered by the laws are: appointment and qualifications of Chief and District Inspectors and a Board of Examiners; certificates of competency of mine foremen; examination of mines for dangerous conditions; ventilation of mines by mechanical means and coursing of air currents; entrances and exits; roof control; fire prevention and control; mine rescue and first-aid training; explosives and blasting; transportation; safety devices on equipment and safe practices; and electrical installations. Males under 18 and females are prohibited from working in or about coal mines or beehive coke ovens, except in an office in a clerical capacity. BUREAU OF MINES Chapter 110, Sections 279 to 324. The Bureau of Mines has regulatory supervision over all ore mills, sampling works, smelters, metallurgical plants, rock quarries, clay pits, mines, excepting coal mines, and oil wells; and power to make and enforce rules and regulations regarding safe operations and prevention of accidents. STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE Vocational Rehabilitation Chapter 172, Sections 4 to 10. The State Board of Agriculture is designated as the State Board for Vocational Education concerned with vocational rehabilitation and placement in remunerative employment of physically disabled persons. The State Board is authorized to vocationally rehabilitate persons eligible for benefits, and with the Industrial Commission to administer the vocational rehabilitation law and formulate a plan of cooperation. The provisions and benefits of the Federal Act providing for the vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry and otherwise, are accepted. CONNECTICUT SOURCES: General Statutes, 1949 1951 Supplement to General Statutes Sanitary Code of the State of Connecticut, May 1952 Rules and Regulations of State Agencies STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH Authority and Functions1 General Statutes, 1949, Section 3797. Department, how constituted. "The State department of health shall consist of a commissioner of health and a public health council." Section 3800. Sanitary code. "Said council shall establish a sanitary code and, from time to time, amend the same. The sanitary code may provide for the preservation and improvement of the public health..." Section also provides penalty for violation of any provision of the Sanitary Code. Section 3801. Powers and duties of commissioner. "The commissioner of health shall employ the most efficient and practical means for the prevention and suppression of disease, and shall administer the health laws and the sanitary code, prepare rules and regulations for the council. . . . He shall assist and advise local health officers in the performance of their duties, and may require the enforcement of any law, regulation or ordinance relating to public health.. The commissioner of health shall investigate nuisances and conditions affecting, or that he has reason to suspect may affect, the security of life and health in any locality and . . . may enter and examine any . . . building or place. . . .” Section 3802. Bureaus. "Said department shall maintain laboratories and bureaus of · preventable diseases . . . and industrial bygiene. ... Section 3867. Reports of occupational diseases and investigations concerning them. “... The state department of health is authorized to investigate and make recommendations for the elimination or prevention of occupational diseases which have been reported to it or which shall be reported to it in accordance with the provisions of this section. Said department is also authorized to study and provide advice in regard to conditions that may be suspected of causing occupational diseases, provided information obtained upon investigations made in accordance with the provisions of this section shall not be admissible as evidence in any action at law to recover damages for personal injury or in any action under the workmen's compensation act." Section 3755. Order to remove execessive dust. See under statutory provisions relating to occupational health and safety for State Department of Labor, page 38. 1 Additional references on pages 38 (Section 3755), and 39 (Section 7352). General Provisions Relating to Occupational Health Statutory Provisions Section 4150. Heating of leased buildings. In any place, building or place of business, a temperature of less than 68 degrees Fahrenheit is deemed injurious to the health of occupants. Failure to furnish heat to the degrees provided herein is subject to penalty. Section 4151. Common drinking cups. "The state department of health, to prevent the spread of communicable diseases, may, by suitable rules and regulations regulate or prohibit the providing or use of a common drinking cup. 1951 Supp. Gen. Stat., Section 887b. Physical examinations for state employees. Compensation. "Each state employee who, during the performance of his duties, comes into contact with persons or animals afflicted with any malignant, infectious or contagious disease, or who comes into contact with any culture, collections or concentration of the organisms producing any malignant, infectious or contagious disease, or who is regularly exposed to the bacteria, germs, virus or other organisms, by whatever name called, producing any malignant, infectious or contagious disease, shall be given a physical examination semi-annually by the state.. Rules and Regulations In Sanitary Code of the State of Connecticut, May 1952. 1. Occupational Environment. Regulation 280. "No person, firm, corporation or other employer shall use or permit to be used in the conduct of his business, manufacturing establishment or other place of employment, any process, material or condition known to have an adverse effect on health, unless arrangements have been made to maintain the occupational environment in such a manner that injury to health shall not result. "Before any person, firm, corporation or other employer shall undertake any actual construction in connection therewith, the state department of health shall be notified of any contemplated replacement, extension, or new installation of any industrial exhaust ventilating system for the removal of dusts, fumes, vapors, mists or gases, which may affect the health of workers. "Exposure to dusts, fumes, mists, vapors, gases, or any materials that may affect health shall be kept below the threshold limits as established in Regulation 281.” Regulation 281. Threshold limits of toxic materials are listed. 2. Regulations Governing the Use of Mercurial Carroting Solutions and Mercurial Carroted Fur. Regulation 282. Prohibits the use of mercurial carrot in the preparation of hatter's fur, or use of mercurial carroted hatter's fur in the manufacture of hats. Effective December 1, 1941. Regulation 283. Prohibits the use of dyed piece fur in the fur felt hat manufacturing industry unless processed. Effective August 1, 1942. 3. Fluoroscopic Shoe-Fitting Devices. Regulation 286. Defines terms; prescribes permissible beam intensities; specifies measures for control of primary X-ray beams and of stray radiation; requires posting of warning placard on each fluoroscopic shoe-fitting device; and requires electrical safeguarding. Effective December 4, 1951. 4. Regulation for Control of Fumigation. Regulation 284. Deals with qualifications and licensing of fumigators; serving of written notices upon owners of buildings that are to be fumigated; ventilation of buildings and inspection for leaking gas; wearing of gas masks; and conditions of fumigating. 294406-54- 4 5. Cleaning of Wiping Cloths. Regulation 285. Requires their sterilization before use. 6. Regulations Concerning Tetraethyl Lead. Regulations 250 to 253. Regulations define terms; require periodic physical examinations of workers, separate ventilation systems for manufacturing apparatus, daily inspections, proper labeling of containers, and monthly reports to the State Department of Health on employment of workers and cases of poisoning; give regulations for manufacture of tetraethyl lead and blending of the latter to make ethyl fluid, and for distribution of ethyl gasoline. Containers sold to the public must be properly labeled. 7. Conditions Specifically Declared to Constitute Public Nuisances. Regulation 101. Among the conditions enumerated are: "bone boiling, fat rendering establishments, or tallow or soap works, or other trades, when they can be shown to affect public health or produce serious offense." Regulation 102. Authorizes local health officers to abate nuisances or any pollution. 8. Manufacturing or Other Wastes. Regulation 105. Prohibits disposal of waste products from any mill, factory, slaughterhouse, rendering or fertilizer works, in such a manner as to injure the public health or create offensive conditions. 9. Drinking Cups and Drinking Fountains. Regulation 116. Requires the installation of sanitary drinking facilities in public places and in industrial or mercantile establishments. 10. Food Sanitation. Regulation 121, Sanitation of Foodstuffs, and Regulation 123, Sanitation of Places Dispensing Foods or Beverages, deal with food sanitation and contain requirements for sanitary toilet and washing facilities for employees and for cleanliness of premises. Persons affected with any disease in a communicable form are forbidden to work in public eating or drinking places. Local health departments are authorized to issue and post certificates of inspection. Regulation 125, Artificial Ice Plants, requires among other things, the provision of adequate toilet and washing facilities and protective boots for employees. Reporting of Occupational Diseases Gen. Stat. 1949, Section 3867. Reports of occupational diseases and investigations concerning them. "Each physician having knowledge of any person whom he believes to be suffering from poisoning from lead, phosphorous, arsenic, brass, wood alcohol or mercury or their compounds, or from anthrax or from compressed-air illness or any other disease, contracted as a result of the nature of the employment . . . shall, within forty-eight hours, mail to the state department of health a report. . . . No report made pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be admissible as evidence of the facts therein stated in any action at law or in any action under the workmen's compensation act against any employer or such diseased person. . . . For each such report the physician shall receive a fee of fifty cents, to be paid by the state department of health.. STATE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Authority and Functions 1 1951 Supp. Gen. Stat., Section 827b. Labor department established. "The department of labor and factory inspection shall become the labor depart ment . . . and commissioner of labor and factory inspection shall mean, respectively, labor department and labor commissioner." Gen. Stat. 1949, Section 3746. Factory inspection. Deputy commissioner. Report. "There shall continue to be a department of factory inspection under the management of the commissioner of labor Said commissioner shall, by himself or a representative, as often as practicable, examine all buildings and places where machinery is used, and may enter such buildings and places at all proper times for the purposes of inspection. . . .' Section 3760. Enforcement. "The commissioner shall enforce the provisions of this chapter (Sections 3745 to 3775) by giving proper orders or notices to the persons or corporations owning, operating or managing the factories or buildings inspected by him and shall make complaint to the state's attorneys of any violation of the provisions of this chapter." ... Section 3777. Industrial investigation. Special agents. "The commissioner of labor is authorized to investigate the wages, hours of employment, necessary expense of living and health so far as affected by their employment, of wage-earning women and girls in . . . laundries . . . manufacturing establishments and tenement house work. Such investigation shall be conducted under the supervision of said commissioner by a woman specially trained for this work and selected by him . . . . The commissioner may employ special agents to assist him in his investigations. . . ." Section 3755. Order to remove excessive dust. See under statutory provisions relating to occupational health and safety, page 38. ... Section 7370. Commissioner of labor. to search for violations. "The commissioner of labor. shall examine into the employment of minors and women and into the observance of the regulations contained in the preceding sections of this chapter, investigate all complaints of violations thereof and report all cases of such violation to the prosecuting officer having jurisdiction thereof. . . ." General Provisions Relating to Occupational Health and Safety Statutory Provisions Section 3750. Stained glass windows. "Each person, firm or corporation using stained, painted or corrugated glass in factory windows, where the same is injurious to the eyes of the workmen therein, shall remove the same upon the order of the commissioner." Section 3751. Lighting and sanitary condition of factories and roundhouses. Requires factories and buildings where machinery is used to be "well lighted, ventilated and kept as clean as the nature of the business will permit. The belting, shafting, gearing, machinery and drums . . . when so placed as to be dangerous to the persons employed there while engaged in their ordinary duties, shall, as far as practicable, be securely guarded. No machinery ... shall be cleaned while running after notice forbidding the same. .. The commissioner . . . shall examine the lighting and sanitary conditions of railroad roundhouses." ... Section 3752. Toilet rooms in foundries. Authorizes the Commissioner to require employers in foundries employing 10 or more men to provide suitable toilet rooms "to be directly connected with such foundry building, properly heated, ventilated and protected from the dust of such foundry." Penalty for violation. Section 3753. Toilets in manufacturing, mechanical and mercantile establishments and restaurants. Requires provision of "adequate toilet |