rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry. Provisions of the Federal Act are accepted. The State Board of Education is empowered to prescribe and provide courses of vocational training as indicated, and to formulate a plan of cooperation in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Act. ADMINISTRATIVE BUILDING COUNCIL Sections 20-401 to 20-427. The powers and duties of the Administrative Building Council are vested in a 3-member committee composed of the Commissioner of Labor, the Secretary of the State Board of Health and the State Fire Marshal. The duties of this committee include the administration and enforcement of laws relative to the construction, repair or maintenance of "places of employment, public buildings and tenement houses, and all other buildings so as to render the same safe and sanitary"; authority to adopt by reference standard rules necessary to carry out the purposes of the chapter; and supervision over such buildings to adequately enforce and administer lawful orders requiring them to "be safe, sanitary, and to secure the protection of life, health, safety and welfare of every employee in and every frequenter and tenant." Rules are enforced in cooperation with local building inspectors and officials. Sections 20-301 to 20-307. Deal with safety in the building construction industry. STATE FIRE MARSHAL1 Dry Cleaning Establishments Section 20-803. Among the duties of the Fire Marshal are the supervision of the enforcement of laws pertaining to dry cleaning and dry dyeing which are under the charge of the dry cleaning engineer; and promulgation and enforcement of rules for the storage, use, manufacture, sale, and transportation of highly inflammable materials. Sections 20-901 to 20-934. Regulate dry cleaning and dry dyeing establishments, providing for permits and inspections by State Fire Marshal; and contain specific provisions regarding construction of rooms and buildings, heating, lighting equipment, drying rooms, storage of volatile materials, ventilation and related subjects. Section 20-901, Subsection (b). Excludes establishments using chlorinated hydrocarbon and petroleum solvent having a flash-point of 140 degrees Fahrenheit and above, from certain provisions of the law. Requires that such systems must be so constructed and exhausted so as to prevent the escape of any vapors into the atmosphere, and that adequate ventilation be provided. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION Public Service Commission has jurisdiction over railroads and common carriers. Section 47-1215. Empowers the Public Service Commission to regulate, among other things, safety, methods and hours of operating motor carriers subject to the Act. (Sections 47-1211 to 47–1250) Section 47-1117. Specifies minimum of 2-hour rest period for operators of motor vehicles transporting persons or property for hire, at a place where food and lodging may be obtained after the 8 hours of continuous duty. 1 Section 47-1118. Prescribes penalty for violation. 1 Additional reference above (Administrative Building Council). 294406-54-7 Section 55-130 (b). Prescribes requirements for equipment, sanitation and condition of tracks. The Commission is empowered to investigate and enforce compliance with its orders and requirements concerning sanitary drinking water and dispensers on all locomotives and cabooses, and provision of terminal change and washrooms, lockers and other facilities for employees. Section 55-1204. Prohibits use of ash pans on locomotives which cannot be emptied and cleaned without the necessity of an employee going under such locomotive. Penalty for violation. Section 55-1211. Requires locomotive engines to be equipped with stormwindows which will provide unobstructed view. Section 55-1217. Prohibits use of locomotives having one or more flues plugged at both ends, or a boiler leaking steam to such an extent that the vision of those riding on engine is obstructed or their safety or health imperiled thereby. Penalty for violation. Sections 55-1224 to 55-1228. Require automatic couplers, provision of secure grab-irons or hand-holds in sides or ends of any locomotive, car, tender, or similar vehicle, and pin and hand brakes on electric railway and railroad cars. Section 55-1240. Requires medical emergency kits on all trains carrying passengers or employees, and specifies minimum contents. NUISANCE CONTROL Section 48-1407. General powers of Council. "The common council of every city shall have power to enact ordinances for the following purposes. "Tenth. To regulate the location and management of starch factories, glue factories, renderies, tallow chandleries, bone factories, soap factories, tanneries, foundries, slaughter-houses, breweries, distilleries, livery stables, and all other establishments of which the business or trade may become noxious or injurious to public comfort or health; and to prohibit the erection of such buildings or the continuance therein of such noxious or injurious occupations whenever the public comfort or health may require it. For the purpose of this clause, such city is given jurisdiction for four (4) miles from the corporate limits thereof." IOWA SOURCES: Iowa Code Annotated Rules and Regulations of State Agencies STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH Authority and Functions Iowa Code Annotated, Section 135.11. Powers and Duties. "The commissioner of public health shall ... (1) Exercise general supervision over the public health, promote public hygiene and sanitation, and, unless otherwise provided, enforce the laws relating to the same. ... "(4) Make investigations and surveys in respect to the causes of disease and epidemics, and the effect of locality, employment, and living conditions upon the public health. . . . "(16) Establish and maintain such divisions in the departments as are necessary. "(17) Establish, publish and enforce rules not inconsistent with law for the enforcement of the provisions . . . the various laws, the administration and supervision of which are imposed upon the department." Section 135.16. Mining Camps. "When the health conditions in any mining camp become a menace to the health of the inhabitants thereof, the department shall require compliance with the provisions of the housing law insofar as the same may be reasonably applicable in such camp." General Provisions Relating to Occupational Health None specifically. Reporting of Occupational Diseases A regulation adopted by the State Department of Health in 1938 requires physicians to report 22 kinds of occupational diseases to local health officers. The regulation also defines an occupational or industrial disease, and lists harmful substances and conditions constituting an industrial health hazard. BUREAU OF LABOR Authority and Functions 1 Section 91.4. Industrial statistics and information. "The duties of said commissioner shall be. "2. To collect, assort, and systematize statistical details relating to all departments of labor in the state, especially in its relation to the commercial, social, educational, and sanitary conditions surrounding the laboring classes, the means of escape from and the protection of life and health in factories, the employment of children, the number of hours of labor exacted from them and from women. Section 91.5. Other duties-jurisdiction in general. "The commissioner shall have jurisdiction and it shall be his duty to supervise the enforcement of: "1. All laws relating to safety appliances and inspection thereof and health conditions in manufacturing and mercantile establishments, workshops, machine shops, and other industrial concerns within his jurisdiction. "2. All laws of the state relating to child labor. . . . "4. Such other provisions of law as are now or shall hereafter be within his jurisdiction." Section 91.7. Woman inspector-duties. "One of the factory inspectors in the bureau of labor shall be a woman, who shall inspect the sanitary and general conditions of all factories, workshops, hotels, cafes, restaurants, stores, and all other establishments and places where women and children are employed; collect statistics and report the same to the commissioner with such recommendations as she believes will improve working conditions of women and children. . . . She shall perform such other services under the direction of the commissioner as will tend to promote the health and general welfare of the women and children employed in the industries within the state." Section 91.9. Right to enter premises. "The labor commissioner and the inspectors shall have the power to enter any factory or mill, workshop, mine, store, business house, public or private work, when the same is open or in operation for the purpose of gathering facts and statistics such as are contemplated by 1 1 Additional reference on page 88 (State Board of Education). this chapter, and to examine into the methods of protection from danger to employees, and the sanitary conditions in and around such buildings and places, and make a record thereof." General Provisions Relating to Occupational Health and Safety Statutory Provisions Safeguarding Workplaces and Equipment Section 88.6. Safety appliances. Requires provision of safety appliances on moving machinery and protection by guards or housing all gearing, cogs, belting, saws and other similar machinery. Section 88.7. Removal of guards or appliances. Prohibits the removal or destruction of any guard or safety appliance from equipment provided for protection of employees. Section 88.8. Blowers and pipes for dust. Requires emery wheels or belts, or tumbling barrels used for rumbling or polishing castings to be provided “with blowers and pipes of sufficient capacity, placed in such a manner as to protect the person or persons using same from the particles of dust produced or caused thereby, and to carry away said particles of dust arising from or thrown off such wheels, belts, and tumbling barrels . . . directly to the outside of the building, or to some receptacle . . . to receive or confine such particles of dust. . . Exempted are wet grinding machines, small emery wheels used for tool grinding, and shops employing not more than one man at such work. Section 88.9. Pipes and flues for gases. “Any factory, workshop, printshop, or other place where molten metal or other material which gives off deleterious gases or fumes is kept or used shall be equipped with pipes or flues so arranged as to give easy escape to such gases or fumes into the open air, or provided with other adequate ventilators." Section 88.10. Prescribes penalty for violation of sections 88.2 to 88.9. Sanitation Section 88.2. Water closets-separate for each sex. Requires every manufacturing or mercantile establishment, or workshop employing 5 or more persons, to provide water closets which shall be properly screened, ventilated, and kept at all times in a clean condition, and separate for each sex. Section 88.3. Washing facilities. Requires all factories, mercantile establishments, mills, and workshops to provide a sufficient supply of drinking water, adequate washing facilities separate for each sex, and, when character of work requires change of clothing, dressing room and lockers. Rules and Regulations None specifically. Employment of Women and Minors Among pertinent provisions are the following: Section 92.1. Enumerates occupations and industries prohibited to children under 14 years. Section 92.4. Declares unlawful the directing or permitting boys under 16 and girls under 18 to clean machinery while in motion; boys or girls under 16 to operate freight or passenger elevators; and boys and girls under 16 to operate. dangerous machinery. Section 92.11. Forbids persons under 16 to be employed "at any work or occupation which, by reason of its nature or the place of employment, the health of such person may be injured, or morals depraved, or at any work in which the handling or use of gunpowder, dynamite, or other like explosive is required, or in or about any mine during the school term . . . or in any occupation dangerous to life or limb. "No female under twenty-one years of age shall be employed in any capacity where the duties of such employment compel her to remain constantly standing. Section 92.15. Prescribes penalty for violation of the Child Labor Laws. Section 92.16. Empowers the Labor Commissioner to enforce provisions of the chapter and local enforcement agencies to assist. Section 88.4. Requires employers of females in workshops, mercantile, manufacturing or business establishments to provide suitable seats and permit their use when duties reasonably allow it. Reporting of Injuries Section 88.11. Record of accidents. Requires employers to keep record of any accident to employee resulting in death, or in bodily injury which may prevent returning to work within 2 days. Records shall be open to inspection by Bureau of Labor. Section 88.12. Report of accidents-evidence. Requires a written report to be made to the Commissioner of Labor of all accidents for which record keeping is required. Statements contained in such reports are not admissible in any action arising out of the accident reported. Penalty for violation. The Workmen's Compensation Law is administered by the Industrial Commissioner. (Sections 85.1 to 85.69) Occupational Disease Compensation Sections 85A-1 to 85A-27. Iowa Occupational Disease Law. A group of 16 diseases is deemed compensable. Schedule coverage. Reporting of Injuries Section 86.11. Reports of injuries. Employers are required to keep a record of all injuries fatal or otherwise, resulting in incapacity for a longer period than one day and report those causing incapacity for a longer period than 7 days to the Industrial Commissioner, and all permanent total and partial disabilities, and deaths. Penalty for failure to report. STATE MINE INSPECTORS Chapter 82. Contains mining laws of Iowa. Among the subjects covered are: appointment of a board of examiners and examination of applicants for certificates of competency for mine inspectors, mine hoisting engineers and mine foremen; appointment of State Mine Inspectors and their duties with respect to mine examinations in their respective districts; safety requirements for escape ways. and air shafts, and traveling ways; requirements for ventilation and air currents; provision of safety appliances on machinery and equipment; duties of mine engineers, foremen and of miners and other employees with respect to examinations for safety of workareas and observance of mining laws; storage and handling of explosives and safe blasting practices; provision of washing facilities |