Section 8: Handling
consolidated text (as at 2013, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
8. Handling
(1) To prevent spillage, generation of dust and to assure ergonomically correct working conditions, handling equipment and auxiliaries shall be used as
much as possible.
(2) Adequate handling equipment include—
(a) vehicles with crane or other lifting equipment;
(b) fork-lifts;
(c) conveyors;
(d) pneumatic transport of liquids or powders using compressed air in
closed systems;
(e) pumps and syphons for vats, drums and casks;
(f) syphons and pipettes;
(g) sack-trucks manually manoeuvred for smaller containers;
(h) tilting racks for drums, vats and bottles;
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(i) any device allowing bottom-emptying into closed containers of powders so as to avoid dust generation;
(j) flow-measuring-devices for volume and weight replacing open
weighting and apportioning by hand.