34 Pa. Code § 13.181 - Physical examination
(a) All
applicants for employment as process men shall be physically examined by a
licensed physician either before commencing work or before the expiration of 24
hours after their employment.
(b)
All process men shall be physically reexamined by a licensed physician at least
once every 30 days and before resuming work after an absence due to sickness,
accident, or any other cause.
(c)
Such examinations shall consist of determining and recording in a book or upon
a card all of the following facts:
(1) Name,
age, and address.
(2) The
process.
(3) The weight and
height.
(4) The pulse.
(5) The blood pressure.
(6) The haemoglobin.
(7) The examination of
urine-reaction.
(8) The specific
gravity.
(9) The albumin.
(10) The sugar.
(11) The casts.
(d) The records of these examinations shall
at all times be open for inspection by the Department or its authorized
representative.
(e) The examining
physician shall request the factory manager or superintendent to suspend from
work any process man who, he believes, is suffering from poisoning and report
such case to the Department.
(f)
The employer shall provide, without expense to the employe a hospital room or
dispensary, separate and apart from the workroom or rooms, and shall be
equipped with all of the following:
(1) A
couch, bed or surgical table.
(2)
Two pairs of woolen blankets.
(3)
Two hot water bottles.
(4) Two
tanks of oxygen, one of which shall be completely full, and the necessary
apparatus for administering them.
(5) An oxygen helmet for rescue
work.
(6) All necessary devices for
artificial respiration.
(7) A
shower bath with hot and cold water.
(8) At least one stretcher.
(9) A toilet which complies with the
requirements of Chapter 41 (relating to sanitation).
(g) Employers shall keep in a book or on a
card, a record of all employes, showing their exact employment and all changes
to other work. This record shall at all times be open for inspection by the
Department or its authorized representative.
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