# The Pottery (Health and Welfare) Special Regulations 1950, Schedule SECOND: PROTECTIVE CLOTHING


(1) Protective clothing shall be provided by the occupier in pursuance of Regulation 9 for the use of all persons employed in the processes or work included in column (a) of the table below and the clothing provided shall (subject to paragraphs (3) and (4) below) be that indicated opposite the respective processes or work in columns (b), (c), (d), and (e) of that table.
(2) For the purposes of the table below:—
“WO” means washable overalls, and includes overalls of the “bib and brace” type and the garments usually known as “potter's slops.”
“WA” means washable aprons with bibs.
“IA” means aprons with bibs and made of material impervious to water.
“WH” means washable head coverings.
(3) For persons employed in any process or work for which washable aprons with bibs are required under column (c) of the table below, the occupier may instead provide either:—
(i) washable overalls, or
(ii) aprons with bibs and made of material impervious to water,
and shall provide such overalls or aprons, as the case may be, if the Inspector for the District has issued and there remains in force a certificate in respect of a factory or a particular part of a factory that they are in his opinion needed having regard to the conditions under which the process or work is carried on in that factory or that particular part of it.
(4) For persons employed in any process or work for which impervious aprons are required under column (d) of the table below and for which washable overalls are not required under column (b) of that table, the occupier shall provide such overalls in addition to the aprons if the Inspector for the District has issued and there remains in force a certificate that overalls are in his opinion needed having regard to the conditions under which the process or work is carried on in the factory to which the certificate relates.
Protective clothing to be provided
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
Process or work
Washable overalls
Washable aprons
Aprons with bibs and made of material impervious to water
Washable head coverings
(1) Any process involving the manipulation of dry calcined flint or of dry quartz
WO
WH
(2) Flint or quartz milling, or any process involving exposure to ground or powdered flint or quartz
WO
(3) The grinding or tempering of fireclay or grog
WO
(4) Work in the slip-house
WO
IA
(5) The making, mixing or storage of leadless glaze or of engobe or slip
WO
(6) The making or mixing of frits or glazes containing lead or of colours
WO
WH
(7) The preparation of clay dust, including drying, breaking, grinding and mixing
WO
WH
(8) The loading, carrying, conveying or unloading of clay dust
WO
WH
(9) The loading, carrying, conveying or unloading of clay or clay scraps
WO
(10) Throwing, jiggering, jollying, jolly-throwing or hollow-ware pressing
WA
(11) The casting or pressing of sanitary fireclay ware or of flintless stoneware
WA
(12) The casting or pressing of ware other than sanitary fireclay ware or flintless stoneware
WO
IA
(13) Earthenware towing
WO
IA
WH
(14) Dust-tile pressing
WO
WH
(15) Dust-tile fettling
WO
IA
WH
(16) Damp fettling
WA
(17) All other fettling
WO
IA
(18) All other processes in potters' shops not specifically mentioned above
WA
(19) The application of engobe or slip, or the application to sanitary fireclay ware of glaze in leadless glaze factories
WO
IA
(20) Biscuit placing
WO
(21) Work in the biscuit ware-house
WO
(22) Work as dippers or dippers' assistants, or otherwise in the application of glaze to ware (other than sanitary fireclay ware), in leadless glaze factories
IA
(23) Work as dippers or dippers' assistants, or otherwise in the application of glaze, in factories other than leadless glaze factories
WO
IA
WH
(24) Ware-cleaning in leadless glaze factories
IA
(25) Ware-cleaning in factories other than leadless glaze factories
WO
IA
WH
(26) All scheduled processes other than those specifically mentioned above
WO
(except for persons engaged in drawing a glost oven)
WH
(except for glost placing)
(27) Cleaning any part of the factory or plant where there is liable to be flint or quartz or clay dust, or emptying the collectors of dust extraction plants
WO
WH

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1950/65/schedule/SECOND (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/pottery-health-and-welfare-special-regulations-1950/schedule-SECOND
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