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Document ID (ISN)25231
CIS number 76-1139
Year 1976
Convention or series no.
Title Ceramics
Original title Lavorazione della ceramica [in Italian]
Bibliographic information Norme di sicurezza - Settore artigiano, Serie A - N.4, Ente Nazionale Prevenzione Infortuni, via Alessandria 220E, 00198 Roma, Italy, 1976. 31p. Illus. Price: L.100.
Abstract A guide, written in straightforward language, to the relevant occupational safety and health legislation. General and specific hygiene regulations; dust: preventive measures (substitution, wetting, etc.), local exhaust and general ventilation; heat radiation; colours and glazes (protective gloves, barrier creams, ventilation, spray booths); safety regulations (fire prevention, electrical hazards); machine guarding (transmission elements, prime movers, control elements, work elements, maintenance, etc.); occupational diseases (lead poisoning, silicosis); machinery (preparation of plastic clay, conveyors, shaping, presses, drying); firing.
Descriptors (primary) pottery industry; Italy
Descriptors (secondary) occupational hygiene; radiant heat; dust control; local exhaust; occupational diseases; lead; silica; pigments; enamels; presses; electrical safety; ventilation; personal protective equipment; fire prevention; legislation; directive; safety devices
Document type F - Information notes, codes of practice, standards
Subject(s) Materials, glass and ceramics
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Glass, pottery and related materials