Pennsylvania Act 1965-116 — EYE PROTECTION IN SCHOOLS, COLLEGES OR UNIVERSITIES

Act text

EYE PROTECTION IN SCHOOLS, COLLEGES OR UNIVERSITIES
                 Act of Jul. 19, 1965, P.L. 215, No. 116              Cl. 24
                                  AN ACT

     Providing for the use of eye protective devices by persons
        engaged in hazardous activities or exposed to known dangers
        in schools, colleges and universities.

        The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     hereby enacts as follows:

        Section 1.  Every teacher, student, visitor, spectator, and
     every other person in any shop or laboratory in public or
     private schools, colleges and universities who is engaged in or
     is within the area of known danger created by
        (1)  the use of hot liquids, solids or gases, or caustic or
     explosive materials, or
        (2)  the milling, sawing, turning, shaping, cutting, grinding
     or stamping of solid materials, or
        (3)  the tempering, heat treatment or kiln firing of metals
     and other materials, or
        (4)  gas or electric welding, or
        (5)  the repairing or servicing of vehicles,
     shall wear industrial quality eye protective devices at all
     times while engaged in such activities or exposed to such known
     dangers.
        Section 2.  Schools, colleges and universities shall have the
     power to receive Federal, State and local moneys and to expend
     the same to provide such devices and shall furnish such devices
     to all visitors and spectators and all other persons required
     under the provisions of this act to wear them.
        Section 3.  Enforcement of this act shall be in accordance
     with standards, rules and regulations promulgated by the State
     Board of Education.
        Section 4.  For the purposes of this act, "industrial quality
     eye protective devices" mean devices meeting the standards of
     the American Standard Safety Code for Head, Eye and Respiratory
     Protection, Z2.1-1959, promulgated by the American Standards
     Association, Incorporated.