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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-substances-hazardous-to-health-regulations-1988/schedule-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1657",
  "legislation_title": "The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-substances-hazardous-to-health-regulations-1988",
  "path": "schedule/2",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "PROHIBITION OF CERTAIN SUBSTANCES HAZARDOUS TO HEALTH FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES",
  "text": "Item No.\nColumn 1\nColumn 2\nDescription of substance\nPurpose for which the substance is prohibited\nNotes\n1. “Blasting apparatus” means apparatus for cleaning, smoothing, roughening or removing of part of the surface of any article by the use as an abrasive of a jet of sand, metal shot or grit or other material propelled by a blast of compressed air or steam or by a wheel.\n2. This prohibition shall not prevent the use as a parting material of the following substances—\nnatural sand;\nzirconium silicate (zircon);\ncalcined china clay;\ncalcined aluminous fireclay;\nsillimanite;\ncalcined or fused alumina;\nolivine.\n3. “Use as a parting material” means the application of the material to the surface or parts of the surface of a pattern or of a mould so as to facilitate the separation of the pattern from the mould or the separation of parts of the mould.\n4. “White oil” means a refined mineral oil conforming to a specification approved by the Health and Safety Executive and certified by its manufacturer as so conforming.\n5. “Gassing powder” means a chemical compound in powder form which reacts with atmospheric moisture to generate hydrogen cyanide.\n1.\n2—naphthylamine; benzidine; 4—aminodiphenyl; 4—nitrodiphenyl; their salts and any substance containing any of those compounds, in any other substance in a total concentration exceeding 0.1 per cent.\nManufacture and use for all purposes including any manufacturing process in which a substance described in column 1 of this item is formed.\n2.\nSand or other substance containing free silica.\nUse as an abrasive for blasting articles in any blasting apparatus (see note 1).\n3.\nA substance—\n(a) containing compounds of silicon calculated as silica to the extent of more than 3% by weight of dry material; or\n(b) composed of or containing dust or other matter deposited from a fettling or blasting process.\nUse as a parting material in connection with the making of metal castings (see notes 2 and 3).\n4.\nCarbon disulphide.\nUse in the cold-cure process of vulcanising in the proofing of cloth with rubber.\n5.\nOils other than white oil, or oil of entirely animal or vegetable origin or entirely of mixed animal and vegetable origin (see note 4).\nUse for oiling the spindles of self-acting mules.\n6.\nGround or powdered flint or quartz other than natural sand.\nUse in relation to the manufacture or decoration of pottery for the following purposes—\n(a) the placing of ware for the biscuit fire;\n(b) the polishing of ware;\n(c) as the ingredient of a wash for saggars, trucks, bats, cranks, or other articles used in supporting ware during firing; and\n(d) as dusting or supporting powder in potters' shops.\n7.\nGround or powdered flint or quartz other than—\n(a) natural sand; or\n(b) ground or powdered flint or quartz which forms part of a slop or paste.\nUse in relation to the manufacture or decoration of pottery for any purpose except—\n(a) use in a separate room or building for—\n(i) the manufacture of powdered flint or quartz; or\n(ii) the making of frits or glazes or the making of colours or coloured slips for the decoration of pottery;\n(b) use for the incorporation of the substance into the body of ware in an enclosure in which no person is employed and which is constructed and ventilated to prevent the escape of dust.\n8.\nDust or powder of a refractory material containing not less than 80 per cent. of silica other than natural sand.\nUse for sprinkling the moulds of silica bricks, namely bricks or other articles composed of refractory material and containing not less than 80 per cent. of silica.\n9.\nWhite phosphorus.\nUse in the manufacture of matches.\n10.\nHydrogen cyanide.\nUse in fumigation except when—\n(a) released from an inert material in which hydrogen cyanide is absorbed;\n(b) generated from a gassing powder (see note 5); or\n(c) applied from a cylinder through suitable piping and applicators other than for fumigations in the open air to control or kill mammal pests.",
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