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The Shipbuilding and Ship-repairing Regulations 1960
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- 1960 No. 1932
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Protection in connection with cutting or welding
74.—(1) Suitable goggles fitted with tinted eye-pieces shall be provided and maintained for all persons employed when using cutting or welding apparatus to which oxygen or any inflammable gas or vapour is supplied under pressure.
(2) There shall be provided and maintained for the use of all persons employed when engaged in the process of electric welding—
(a)suitable helmets or suitable head-shields or suitable hand-shields to protect the eyes and face from hot metal and from rays likely to be injurious, and
(b)suitable gauntlets to protect the hands and forearms from hot metal and from rays likely to be injurious.
(3) When electric welding is in progress at any place and persons other than those engaged in that process are employed in a position where the rays are likely to be injurious to their eyes, screens shall, where practicable, be provided at that place for the protection of those persons. Where it is not practicable to provide effective protection of those persons by screening, suitable goggles shall be provided for their use.
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