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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-foundries-etc-metrication-regulations-1981/schedule",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1981/1332",
  "legislation_title": "The Health and Safety (Foundries etc.) (Metrication) Regulations 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-foundries-etc-metrication-regulations-1981",
  "path": "schedule",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "THE",
  "heading": "AMENDMENTS TO REGULATIONS",
  "text": "1\n2\n3\n4\nRegulation to be amended\nSubject matter of measurement\nPresent measurement\nMeasurement to be substituted\nThe Blasting (Castings and other Articles) Special Regulations 1949\nRegulation 12(3)\nMinimum rate at which clean air to be supplied to helmet\nsix cubic feet per minute\n170 litres per minute\nRegulation 17(2)\nMinimum distance from blasting enclosure\ntwenty feet\n6 metres\nThe Iron and Steel Foundries Regulations 1953\nRegulation 5\n(a) Distance from spout of cupola or furnace within which work not to be carried out\ntwelve feet\n4 metres\n(b) Distance from ladle within which work not to be carried out\neight feet\n2.4 metres\nRegulation 6(1)(c)\nMinimum width of certain gangways\nthree feet\n920 millimetres\nRegulation 6(1)(d)(i)\nMinimum amount gangways shall be wider than overall width of ladle\ntwo feet\n600 millimetres\nRegulation 6(1)(d)(ii)\nMinimum width of certain gangways\nthree feet\n920 millimetres\nRegulation 6(1)(d)(iii)\nMinimum width of certain gangways\nfour feet\n1.2 metres\nRegulation 6(1)(d)(iv)\nMinimum width of certain gangways\nsix feet\n1.8 metres\nRegulation 6(2)(a)(iii)\nMinimum width of pouring aisles\neighteen inches\n460 millimetres\nRegulation 6(2)(b)(ii)\nMinimum width of pouring aisles\neighteen inches\n460 millimetres\nNon-Ferrous Metals (Melting and Founding) Regulations 1962\nRegulation 2(2)\nDefinition of “degrees”\ndegrees Fahrenheit\ndegrees Celsius\nRegulation 10(1)(a)\n(a) Minimum width of pouring aisles\neighteen inches\n460 millimetres\n(b) Minimum height of moulds above floor\ntwenty inches\n510 millimetres\n(c) Minimum width of pouring aisles when moulds alongside are more than minimum height above the floor\ntwenty-four inches\n600 millimetres\nRegulation 10(1)(b)\nMinimum width of pouring aisles\nthirty inches\n760 millimetres\nRegulation 10(2)(a)\nMinimum width of certain gangways\nthree feet\n920 millimetres\nRegulation 10(2)(c)(i)\nMinimum amount gangways shall be wider than overall width of ladle\ntwo feet\n600 millimetres\nRegulation 10(2)(c)(ii)\nMinimum width of certain gangways\nfour feet\n1.2 metres\nRegulation 10(2)(c)(iii)\nMinimum width of certain gangways\nsix feet\n1.8 metres\nRegulation 14\n(a) Minimum room temperature\nfifty degrees\n10 degrees\n(b) Maximum outside temperature at which proviso applies\nthirty degrees\n−1 degree\n(c) Minimum amount by which room temperature should exceed outside temperature\ntwenty degrees\n11 degrees\nRegulation 15(2)(c)\nMaximum interval at which taps or jets to be fitted to trough\ntwo feet\n600 millimetres\nRegulation 15(3)(a)\n(a) Definition of “unit” in terms of length of trough\ntwo feet\n600 millimetres\n(b) Definition of “unit” in terms of section of circumference of trough\ntwo feet\n600 millimetres\nRegulation 15(3)(c)\nMinimum internal measurement of basin or other receptacle\nfour feet\n1.2 metres\nRegulation 17\nMinimum height to which walls are to be cleaned\nfourteen feet\n4.2 metres",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1988/1657",
      "affecting_title": "The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 1988"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/1332/schedule",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:33:19.950640+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}