The LongshoremenSurvey Associates, 1915 - 287 pages |
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Page 232 - Act, unless he proves that he had taken all reasonable means, by publishing and to the best of his power enforcing the said rules as regulations for the working of the mine, to prevent such contravention or non-compliance.
Page 229 - ... within forty-eight hours after the occurrence of the accident, written notice of the accident shall forthwith be sent to the inspector and to the certifying surgeon for the district, stating the residence of the person killed or injured...
Page 234 - ... yards. 2. Provision for the rescue from drowning of persons employed shall be made and maintained, and shall include: — (a) A supply of life-saving appliances, kept in readiness on the wharf or quay, which shall be reasonably adequate having regard to all the circumstances.
Page 231 - Every person who wilfully delays an inspector in the exercise of any power under this section, or who fails to comply with a requisition...
Page 230 - To examine either alone or in the presence of any other person, as he thinks fit, with respect to matters under this act, every person whom he finds in a factory or...
Page 229 - ... the whole or any part of which may be applied for the benefit of the injured person or his family, or otherwise as a Secretary of State determines...
Page 234 - In particular, the following parts shall, as far as is practicable having regard to the traffic and working, be securely fenced so that the height of the fence shall be in no place less than two feet six inches, and the fencing shall be maintained in good condition ready for use : — (a) All breaks, dangerous corners, and other dangerous parte or edges of a dock, wharf, or quay.
Page 230 - To enter, inspect, and examine at all reasonable times by day and night a factory and a workshop and every part thereof when he has reasonable cause to believe that any person is employed therein, and to enter by day any place which he has reasonable cause to believe to be a factory or workshop...
Page 144 - Group 10. Longshore work, including the loading or unloading of cargoes or parts of cargoes of grain, coal, ore, freight, general merchandise, lumber or other products or materials, or moving or handling the same on any dock, platform or place, or in any warehouse or other place of storage.
Page 230 - ... such person to be so examined and to sign a declaration of the truth of the matters respecting which he is so examined; and (7.) To exercise such other powers as may be necessary for carrying this Act into effect.