accommodations, so arranged as to secure reasonable privacy, for both sexes employed or engaged in any such establishment. . . . Such accommodations shall include adequate fixtures, shall be maintained in good repair and in a clean and sanitary condition, adequately ventilated with windows or suitable ventilators opening to the outside and shall be provided with convenient means for artificial lighting." Penalty for violation.

Section 3755. Order to remove excessive dust. "Each employer whose business shall require the operation or use of emery, tripoli, rouge, corundum, stone, carborundum or other abrasive, polishing or buffing wheel, in the manufacture of articles of metal or iridium or whose business shall include any process which generates an excessive amount of dust, shall install and maintain in connection therewith such devices as may be considered necessary by the commissioner and the State department of health to remove from the atmosphere any dust created by such process. The commissioner with the State department of health, shall issue to any employer engaged in such business any order necessary to render effective the foregoing provision, and if . . . such order shall not be complied with, the commissioner may order any such department closed until such order shall be complied with. . . . Such orders shall be enforceable by the superior court by injunction on application of the commissioner or the State department of health." Penalty for violation.

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Section 3758. Appliances for threading shuttles. "Each person, firm or corporation engaged in weaving shall furnish suitable appliances to permit the threading of shuttles without the necessity of the operator putting any thread into his mouth or touching any portion of the shuttle with his lips."

Section 3759. Public laundries; sanitation. "A public laundry shall be regarded as a manufacturing establishment. . . . No laundry work shall be done in any public laundry in a room used as a sleeping or a living room. No employer shall permit any person to work in his public laundry who is affected with pulmonary tuberculosis, scrofulous or venereal disease or a communicable skin affection."

Section 3761. Prescribes penalties for violation of the two preceding sections. Industrial Homework

Sections 3762 to 3766. Regulate industrial homework; provide for licensing and inspection of places so engaged; require that all such places conform in every respect to the provisions of the general statutes relating to heat, light, safety, health, ventilation and sanitation and governing the registration and operation of manufacturing and mechanical establishments, and working hours and conditions of women and minors. The Commissioner "shall report to the board of health, humane society or other agency having jurisdiction, any condition believed to be unhealthful, insanitary or otherwise prejudicial to the well-being of such homeworkers, in order that such condition may be investigated and corrected by such agency."

Section 7358. Employees in paper factory to be vaccinated. Provides that employer shall pay to any town all expenses caused it by the sickness of employees with smallpox contracted while so employed.

Section 7359. (As amended by Section 1288b of 1951 Supp. Gen. Stat.) Safety regulations for workmen in building operations. Contains specific safety requirements for building construction industry.

Section 7369. Emergency kits required in factories. Requires employers employing persons to work in connection with machinery in any manufacturing establishment, except those maintaining equipped first-aid-to-the-injured rooms, to be equipped with emergency kits, contents of which are enumerated. Penalty for violation.

Rules and Regulations

Promulgated by Labor Department.

Sanitary Codes for Connecticut Establishments. Code deals with provision of potable water supply; specifies type, construction and number of toilet, washing and drinking facilities, and sets forth requirements for ventilation and maintenance.

Employment of Women and Minors

Among pertinent provisions are the following:

Gen. Stat., 1949, Section 7352. Employment of minors. Prohibits employment of minors under 16 in specified industries and of minors under 18 "in any occupation which has been or shall be pronounced hazardous to health by State department of health or shall be pronounced hazardous in other respects by the department of labor." Penalty for violation.

Section 7368. Seats to be provided for female employees. Requires the provision of seats for female employees in mercantile, mechanical or manufacturing establishments and their use as duties permit it.

Reporting of Injuries

Section 3754. Persons in active charge of any manufacturing or mercantile establishment are required to report accidents resulting in death or causing absence from work for at least one week to the Commissioner of Labor. Penalty for failure to report.

WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COMMISSION1

Gen. Stat., 1949, Sections 7416 to 7494. The Workmen's Compensation Act of Connecticut is administered by the Workmen's Compensation Commission, composed of five commissioners, acting as a board. Each commissioner has sole jurisdiction over his respective congressional district.

Occupational Disease Compensation

Section 7416. Personal injury is defined to include an occupational disease as defined. Full coverage.

Reporting of Injuries

Section 7441. Employers subject to the compensation law, are required to report injuries as prescribed by rules to the Commissioner, along with notices of claims for compensation. Duplicates of reports shall be transmitted to the Commissioner of Labor.

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

Vocational Rehabilitation

Gen. Stat., 1949, Sections 1409 to 1411. Authorizes the State Board of Education to maintain a “rehabilitation service for the rehabilitation and placement in remunerative employment of persons whose capacity to earn a living has been destroyed or impaired." Duties of the State Board as to vocational rehabilitation are enumerated. "Said board and the Workmen's Compensation Commission are authorized and directed to formulate a plan of cooperation for such rehabilitation work."

1 Additional reference below (State Board of Education).

STATE FIRE MARSHAL

Dry Cleaning and Dry Dyeing Establishments

Section 3690. The State Fire Marshal is authorized "to prepare and publish reasonable regulations for the safe storage, handling and use of cleaning fluids, dyes and other materials and safe methods of operation of dry cleaning and dry dyeing establishments in accordance with the customary standards of fire and accident prevention" for purpose of "limiting and controlling fire hazards and casualty hazards related thereto incident to the business of dry cleaning and dry dyeing."

PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION

The Public Utilities Commission has jurisdiction over public utilities, railroads and other common carriers.

Sections 5401 to 5403. The Public Utilities Commission may order improvements, repairs or alterations in plants or equipment or changes in the manner of operation as may be reasonably necessary for the safety of the public and employees of public service companies. The Commission is authorized to investigate complaints made to it concerning defective plants or equipment of any public service company, or the manner of operating such plant, when endangering public safety or health or safety of employees.

Section 5615. Requires that street railway companies provide a seat or stool for use of the motorman. Penalty for violation.

MISCELLANEOUS

Section 7367. Care required of a master for his servant's safety. “It shall be the duty of the master to exercise reasonable care to provide for his servant a reasonably safe place in which to work, reasonably safe appliances and instrumentalities for his work and fit and competent persons as his co-laborers. . . . Section 7364. Inspection of lodging houses. "Any agent of a firm or corporation and every other person who shall maintain or have charge of any structure used as a boarding house or place of abode for laborers . . . shall. notify the health officer of the town, city or borough in which such structure is located. Such health officer . . . shall inspect such premises and may forbid the use of the same altogether or make such other orders as he may deem necessary to protect the health of the inmates.

DELAWARE

SOURCES: Revised Code of Delaware 1935

Laws of Delaware 1939, 1941, 1949, 1951

STATE BOARD OF HEALTH

Authority and Functions 1

Laws of Delaware 1941, Chapter 91, Section 2. Duties; Powers. Making and Enforcing Regulations and Orders... Misdemeanor; Penalty. "The State Board of Health shall have supervision of all matters relating to the preservation of the life and health of the people of the State. . . .

'Additional reference on page 41 (Section 50).

The said Board shall have the power ... to adopt, promulgate, amend, and repeal regulations consistent with the law, which shall be enforced by all State and local public health officials, for the following purposes: (a) to prevent and control the spread of all diseases that are dangerous to the public health; (b) to prevent and control nuisances which are or may be detrimental to the public health... (g) to provide for the sanitary production, distribution, and sale of market milk and dairy products and other foods ... (k) to protect and promote the public health generally in this State, and to carry out all other purposes of the laws pertaining to the public health. . . . Such regulations of the State Board of Health shall have the force and effect of law and shall supersede all local ordinances and regulations heretofore or hereinafter enacted or adopted which are inconsistent therewith. . . .

"The said State Board of Health shall make careful inquiry as to the cause of disease... sanitary condition and effects of localities, employments, the personal and business habits of the people . . . shall be subjects of careful study by the said Board of Health ...

.. Said Board of Health shall, when requested by public authorities, or when it deems best, advise officers of the State, county or local governments in regard to drainage, and the location, drainage, ventilation, and sanitary provisions of any public institution, building, or public place."

General Provisions Relating to Occupational Health

Statutory Provisions

Revised Code 841, Section 98. Deals with licensing of places where soft drinks or beverages are manufactured. License may be denied if such establishment is found in an insanitary condition.

Laws of Delaware 1949, Chapter 339. of commercial places processing poultry. compliance with sanitary regulations. Rules and Regulations None specifically.

Deals with regulation and licensing Issuance of license is contingent upon

None.

Reporting of Occupational Diseases

LABOR COMMISSION OF DELAWARE

Authority and Functions

R. C. 1100, Section 3. Officials or Employees. . . "The Commission shall have power and authority. . . to make all appointments of officials or employees which may be made under any law relating to the condition, regulation or inspection of labor of minor children, or the condition, regulation or inspection of labor of females. . ."

R. C. 3621, Section 31. Child Labor Inspector, Duties of. "The State Child Labor Inspector may visit and inspect at any time any establishment in this State to ascertain whether any children are employed therein contrary to the provisions of this Article and it shall be the duty of the said inspector to make complaint against any person, firm or corporation violating any of its provisions and to prosecute the same."

R. C. 3640, Section 50. Enforcement. "It shall be the duty of the Inspectors appointed by the Labor Commission of Delaware to enforce the provisions of

this Article. The Inspectors shall visit and inspect establishments, and shall have the power whenever they have reason to suppose that work is being performed to visit and inspect any establishment in or in connection with which any female shall be employed or permitted to work. The Inspectors shall investigate all complaints of violation of this Article received by said Inspectors, and institute prosecutions for the violations of the provisions thereof.

"The State Board of Health of Delaware shall determine what are poisonous fumes and gases and what are poisonous or injurious dust, lint or particles of material, as set out in Section 48 of this Article1 and the Labor Commission of Delaware shall determine the definition of all other terms used in this Article; and shall have power to adopt and promulgate suitable rules and regulations for effectively carrying out the provisions of this Article; but the decision of either the State Board of Health of Delaware or the Labor Commission of Delaware shall not be final, but subject to appeal to the Court of General Sessions of the State of Delaware in and for the county of the person appealing, or in case the appeal be prosecuted by the Labor Commission of Delaware, from the decision of the State Board of Health, then in and for the county wherein said poisonous fumes or gases or poisonous or injurious dust, lint or particles of material are created.

"If found necessary to make changes in or additions to any establishments named in Section 432 for ventilation, sewerage, water closets or plumbing, the Inspectors shall require the owner of the building in which such establishment is situated to provide the necessary changes, additions, or improvements, if they are of a permanent character and will become the property of the owner of the building in which such establishment is located."

General Provisions Relating to Occupational Health and Safety Statutory Provisions

(Apply to establishments listed in R. C. 3633, section 43, employing females.) R. C. 3633, Section 43. Toilets. Requires suitable and easily accessible toilet facilities for women and separate facilities where both men and women are employed in "every mercantile, mechanical, transportation or manufacturing establishment, laundry, baking or printing establishment, dressmaking establishment, place of amusement, telephone or telegraph office or exchange, hotel, restaurant or office." Requirements for number of toilets and their cleanliness are set forth.

R. C. 3634, Section 44. Seats. Requires employers to provide suitable seats for female employees and permit their use when duties allow it.

R. C. 3635, Section 45. Dressing Rooms. Sets forth requirements for number and type of dressing rooms in establishments employing women.

R. C. 3636, Section 46. Lunch Rooms in Certain Establishments. “In every establishment in which white lead, arsenic, nicotine or other poisonous or injurious substances, fumes or gases are present, or in which dust, lint or particles of material are created by the machinery or by the material in the process of manufacture, and in which females are employed or permitted to work, there shall be provided a suitable room, free from the aforesaid substances. for the use of such employees during the time allowed for meals (and) they shall not be permitted to remain in any room where the aforesaid substances . . . shall be present. In such establishments, washing facilities shall be provided, including hot water, soap and individual towels or paper tissue towels."

1 See page 43.

2 See below.