The Pottery (Health and Welfare) Special Regulations 1950

(Regulations 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 28)

FIRST SCHEDULE SCHEDULED PROCESSES

PART I

(i)

The making or mixing of frits or glazes containing lead or of colours.

(ii)

The preparation or weighing out of flow material.

(iii)

Colour blowing, or the wiping off of colour after that process.

(iv)

Ground laying or colour dusting, or the wiping off of colour after either of those processes.

(v)

Colour grinding.

(vi)

Lithographic transfer making.

(vii)

Any other process in which any material, other than glaze, which contains more than five per cent. of its dry weight of a soluble lead compound (calculated in the manner described in the definition of low solubility glaze) is used or handled in a dry state or in the form of spray or in suspension in liquid other than oil or similar medium.

PART II

The following processes when carried on in factories other than leadless glaze factories:—

(i) Dipping or other process carried on in the dipping house.

(ii) The application of majolica or other glaze by blowing, painting or any other process except dipping.

(iii) Drying after the application of glaze by dipping, blowing or any other process.

(iv) Ware-cleaning after the application of glaze by dipping, blowing or any other process.

(v) Glost placing.

(vi) Any other process in which glaze is used or in which pottery articles treated with glaze are handled before glost firing.

(Regulation 9)

SECOND SCHEDULE 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