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AFFEHPXX TO HEORAMMm Instructions and Regulations for Workmen In the Foundry and Melting Room of The American Crucible Products Company of Lorain, Ohio prepared by Pr. Robert A. Kehoe, ' Director, Kettering Laboratory of Applied Physiology College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Lead compounds are poisonous when absorbed into the body la sufficient quantity* Dangerous quantities may be absorbed in a short time under conditions of sever exposure. More commonly .quantities sufficient to cause poisoning are absorbed over a period of months or pears. It is important, therefor, to avoid day to day exposure so far as possible. Lead absorption occurs most rapidly when load fumes and dusts are taken in with the breath. 2 very effort should be made to avoid breathing the fumes from molten metal, as well as dust that contains lead. For this reason every workman should protect himself and others by being careful not to stir up unnecessary dust while working. Also he should wear a respirator when there is dust In the air around him. Lead absorption also occurs after swallowing lead. For this reason every workman should avoid handling anything he oats or puts into his mouth until he has washed his hands thoroughly. Do food or drink should ever bo brought into the foundry or melting room, nor should milk or sandwiches or other things,oaten between meals, be brought into these areas. Workmen should bo extremely careful to keep thoir food clean. Children and other persons may absorb lead which is brought into the homo in the form of clust on clothing and shoes. The homo should be kept free of such dusts from an industrial plant. Therefore, \ii 0021722 .2 workmen should not wear their dusty vork-elothing home, hut should change and hath before going host* The following instructions have been prepared for the purpose of reminding workmen how to avoid unnecessary lead exposure. %.y should be read and followed carefully. It is possible to work with lead compounds without becoming sick* Attention to these rules is your share of the responsibility for keeping your health. Cleanliness 1. So vorlaaan whose clothing is made dusty with, lead-containing rjatorials should work in his own clothes. Clothing is to be changed, from the skin out, on arriving at the plant. Work clothes, including safety shoes,are to be worn at all times when working* Co Tour own clothing is to be hung up in another locker provided for that purpose on the opposite side of the looker*room. p. At lunch-time, the dust is to be removed as completely as possible from clothing and shoes. The hands including the m i l s are to be scrubbed clean, and the mouth and nostrils are to bo rinsed cut with water so aa to remove dust that may have been caught there. b. Lunch is to bo eaten in the lunch-rocsa. To food or silk or other beverages are to be brought into the foundry or melting roc at any tine, and no article of food or drink are ever to bo oaten there between meals or at any other time. Otherwise load will be swallowed with the food* 5 . Chewing-tobacco, cigarettes, or pipes must be kept free of load before being put into the mouth. It is better not to carry tobacco into the foundry and melting room, and It is best not to chew and smoke while at work. The tobacco becomes contaminated with dust, and some of KH 0021723 !>* this is likely to be swallowed or inhaled. If you must chew or smoke* take care not to put lead into your tobacco. e. Vbsn you quit work, hang your vork clothing in the lockers provided for them. Bathe thoroughly, scrubbing the skin, nails, and hair, (unless the hair has been kept completely covered end free of dust U Change into your ova clothing and shoes, and then do not enter the foundry before going host Use of respirator . 1. When you vork in an area in uhich dust and fuses are seen, keep away from them as such as possible. Th dust and fumes follow air currents. Keep to the windward side of such currents if possible. Keep to one side of a moving crucible and not behind it, in the stream of fuse. 3. Stir up as little dust ao possible. Handle your tools and molds carefully and with as little stir as possible. 3* If you. must work in a dusty or fume-laden area, put on a reepirator. 3 that it fits snugly and comfortably. If it does not, return it for repair or exchange A good inspirator will protect you against dust and. fume. Wear it until iho dust or fume is gone or until you leave the area in Which it is present. ' *J. The use of a respirator is specified in certain types of work that are known to be potentially dangerous Bo not violate this rule. It is made to remind you that unnecessary lead exposure day by day m y finally cause illness* General Health 1. Good food and regular habits of eating ar important to your health. Bo not eat snacks between meals. Always eat breakfast before going to work. Eat a veil mixed diet containing fruit# green vegetables, ilk* eggs and meat# Hover keep food in the foundry, and never eat or drink in the foundry, lim p sailk with your lunch outside the area in which you work* It is better to go without the milk than to keep and drink It In a place where dust gets into i t 2. Prink plenty of water. p. It is not necessary to avoid alcoholic drinks altogether, but excessive drinking of whiskey, gin, and wine is dangerous for men who work with lead.. Week-end drinking parties are especially dangerous. 4. Seep the bevels open and regular at all times* If any indig ticn or constipation bothers you, report this to the plant doctor for advice. 5* Have regular hours for sleeping, and get not loss than eight hours of sleep at night. If disturbed by Inability to rest, report to he plant doctor* When you are sick In any way, whether from a cold or any other thing, report to the plant doctor. Hotes and Comments on the above rules (a) .Provision will have to bo made for proper locker, a pro perly designed locker room, a place for keeping lunches, milk and/or other drinks. (h) Bathing will have to bo mandatory. Oupervision vlll have to be provided for this purpose. (e) Some arrangement should be made about safety shoes. Men should not work without such shoos {with reinforced tips} in a place in which heavy objects can fall or be set down on their toes. These may X6" 0021725 ox* may not bo obtainable at present. (d) Soso arrangoaent vill have to bo mad about vork clothing and laundry- X believe the present restrictions of the wages and hour: statutes aalco it mandatory that there bo supplied at the expense of the employor The same probably applies to safety shoes. (e) Provision vill have to bo ado to care for and supervise the uso of respirators. Tao condition of these should never bo left to the employees. (f) That provision if any. Is m d for the administration of r.alt in hot weather? Scsaething should be done about this, since heat collapse is otherwise likely to occur from time to time. , (g; fh isen have been advised to consult the plant physician. '.Therefore some arrangement must be made to facilitate this. She doctor houid visit the plant daily if possible and should have cosse private consultation room. `Treatment need not be given there, but -ne fools that eventually this would came about and that a dispensary of acaae hind would bo sot up- (h) The entire set of inotruotiens must bo gone over with fcho Idea of suiting the situation at this plant If they are not in simple enough language, they mist be simplified. Hcveve, it is urged that that portion which explains the hasardo bo left -In in same form re .sembling that suggested * It does not hurt to explain the dangers Cn the contrary it often helps greatly to clear tho air and to point out h e need for compliance with the rules. K f 0021726