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448 FUBUC HEALTH LAWS revoke any employee's at coatrectnr't permit whenever It has reuon to believe that the holder of tucb a permit la not observing the pro visions of the act or the regulations issued, to implement the act. Section g authorises the court of common pleas of the county in which an employer or representative contractor has a place of basi nets, upon spplknikm of the Department of Labor aad.Iodustiy, to enjoin the continued operation of. the business If it be shown that stub employer or representative contractor has twice been found guilty of conducting Us business without an employer's permit at required by lection 7. Deportment of Health No legislation has thus far been enacted expressly delegating any duties to the Department of Health in the field of Industrial health. However, as indicated In the general material preceding the sum mary of industrial statutes, the State Department of Health, and more particularly the Bureau of Industrial Hygiene In that Deport ment, performs valuable research and renders medical and engineer ing services, all of which are designed to safeguard the health of Industrial workers. Occupational Diseotc Act" The legislation considered previously in this chapter provides a basis lor administrative action to compel compliance with certain minimum standards of health and safety for the prevention of occu pational hssards and the safeguard of industrial health. The Penn sylvania Occupational Disease Act of 1919, considered below, Is a different type of Industrial health statute. Whereas the taws dis cussed previously are preventive and penal in nature, the occupa tional disease taw b invoked only after an employee has been dis abled or hu died from a compensable occupational disease. Be cause It b natural that an employer, aware of a potential financial loss from an occupational disability or disease suffered by an em ployee, will attempt to lessen this financial burden by Incorporat ing sound industrial health procedures within his plant, It may be said tbit there Is probably a greater effort by Industry at this time to prevent the occurrence of compensable disenses than those dis eases which are not compensable under the existing Occupational Disease Act. 11 S<v non I. ns*.