HAR §12-25-44. Occupations involving exposure to radioactive substances and to ionizing radiation

(a) As used in this section: "Ionizing radiation" means alpha and beta particles, electrons, protons, neutrons, gamma and X-ray, and all other radiations which produce ionizations directly or indirectly, but does not include electromagnetic radiations other than gamma and X-rays. "Self-luminous compound" means any mixture of phosphorescent material and radium, mesothorium, or other radioactive element. "Workroom" includes the entire area bounded by walls of solid material and extending from floor to ceiling. (b) The following occupations involving exposure to radioactive substances and to ionizing radiation are declared hazardous for minors under eighteen years of age: (1) Any work in any workroom in which: (A) Radium is stored or used in the manufacture of self-luminous compound; (B) Self-luminous compound is made, processed, or packaged; (C) Self-luminous compound is stored, used, or worked upon; (D) Incandescent mantles are made from fabric and solutions containing thorium salts, or are processed or packaged; and (E) Other radioactive substances are present in the air in average concentrations exceeding ten per cent of the maximum permissible concentrations in the air recommended for occupational exposure by the National Committee on Radiation Protection, as set forth in the forty-hour week column on table one of the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards Handbook No. 69 entitled "Maximum Permissible Body Burdens and Maximum Permissible Concentrations of Radionuclides in Air and in Water for Occupational Exposure", issued June 5, 1959; and (2) Any other work which involves exposure to ionizing radiations in excess of the limits set for minors under eighteen years of age by the occupational safety and health standards of the department. [Eff. Oct. 5, 1981] (Auth: HRS §§390-2, 390-6) (Imp: HRS §390-2) §12-25-45 Occupations involved in the operation of elevators and other power-driven hoisting apparatus. (a) As used in this section: "Crane" means a power-driven machine for lifting and lowering a load and moving it horizontally, in which the hoisting mechanism is an integral part of the machine. The term includes all types of cranes, such as cantilever gantry, crawler, gantry, hammer-head, ingot-pouring, jib, locomotive, motor-truck, overhead traveling, pillar jib, pintle, portal, semi-gantry, semi-portal, storage bridge, tower, walking jib, and wall cranes. "Derrick" means a power-driven apparatus consisting of a mast or equivalent members held at the top by guys or braces, with or without a boom, for use with a hoisting mechanism or operating ropes. The term includes all types of derricks, such as A-frame, breast, Chicago boom, ginpole, guy, and stiff-leg derrick. "Elevator" means any power-driven hoisting or lowering mechanism equipped with a car or platform which moves in guides in a substantially vertical direction. The term shall include both passenger and freight elevators (including portable elevators or tiering machines), but does not include dumbwaiters. "High-lift truck" means a power-driven industrial type of truck used for lateral transportation that is equipped with a power-operated lifting device usually in the form of a fork or platform capable of tiering loaded pallets or skids one above the other. Instead of a fork or platform, the lifting device may consist of a ram, scoop, shovel, crane, revolving fork, or other attachments for handling specific loads. The term includes high-lift trucks known under such names as fork lifts, fork trucks, fork-lift trucks tiering trucks, or stacking trucks, but does not include low-lift trucks or low-lift platform trucks that are designed for the transportation of but not the tiering of material. "Hoist" means a power-driven apparatus for raising or lowering a load by the application of a pulling force that does not include a car or platform running in guides. The term includes all types of hoists, such as base mounted electric, clevis suspension, hook suspension, monorail, overhead electric, simple drum, and trolley suspension hoists. 10 12-25-45 "Manlift" means a device intended for the conveyance of persons which consists of platforms or brackets mounted on, or attached to, an endless belt, cable, chain or similar method of suspension; such belt, cable or chain operating in a substantially vertical direction and being supported by and driven through pulleys, sheaves, or sprockets at the top and bottom. (b) The following occupations involved in the operation of power-driven hoisting apparatus are declared hazardous for minors under eighteen years of age: (1) Operating an elevator, crane, derrick, hoist, or high-lift truck, except operating an unattended automatic operation passenger elevator or an electric or air-operated hoist not exceeding one ton capacity; (2) Work which involves riding on a manlift or on a freight elevator, except a freight elevator operated by an assigned operator; and (3) Assisting in the operation of a crane, derrick, or hoist performed by crane hookers, crane chasers, hookers-on, riggers, rigger helpers, and like occupations. (c) This section shall not prohibit the operation of an automatic elevator and an automatic signal operation elevator by a minor who has attained the age of sixteen; provided that: (1) The exposed portion of the car interior (exclusive of vents and other necessary small openings), the car door, and the hoistway doors are constructed of solid surfaces without any opening through which a part of the body may extend; (2) All hoistway openings at floor level have doors which are interlocked with the car door so as to prevent the car from starting until all such doors are closed and locked; (3) The elevator (other than hydraulic elevators) is equipped with a device which will stop and hold the car in case of overspeed or if the cable slackens or breaks; and (4) The elevator is equipped with upper and lower travel limit devices which will normally bring the car to rest at either terminal, and a final limit switch which will prevent the movement in either direction and will open in case of excessive over-travel by the car. (d) For the purpose of subsection (c), the term “automatic elevator” means a passenger elevator, a freight elevator, or a combination passenger-freight elevator, the operation of which is controlled by pushbuttons in such a manner that the starting, going to the landing selected, leveling and holding, and the opening and closing of the car and hoistway doors are entirely automatic; and the term “automatic signal operation elevator” means an elevator which is started in response to the operation of a switch (such as a lever or pushbutton) in the car which when operated by the operator actuates a starting device that automatically closes the car and hoistway doors -- from this point on, the movement of the car to the landing selected, leveling and holding when it gets there, and the opening of the car and hoistway doors are entirely automatic. [Eff. Oct. 5, 1981] (Auth: HRS §§390-2, 390-6) (Imp: HRS §390-2) §12-25-46 Occupations involved in the operation of power-driven metal forming, punching, and shearing machines. (a) As used in this section: "Forming, punching, and shearing machines" means power-driven metal working machines, other than machine tools, which change the shape of or cut metal by means of tools, such as dies, rolls, or knives which are mounted on rams, plungers, or other moving parts. Types of forming, punching, and shearing machines enumerated in this section are the machines to which the designation is by custom applied. "Helper" means a person who assists in the operation of a machine covered by this section by helping place materials into or remove them from the machine. "Operator" means a person who operates a machine covered by this section by performing such functions as starting or stopping the machine, or any other functions directly involved in the operation of the machine. (b) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the occupations of operator of or helper on the following power-driven metal forming, punching, and shearing machines are declared hazardous for minors under eighteen years of age: (1) All rolling machines, such as beading, straightening, corrugating, flanging, or bending rolls; and hot or cold rolling mills; (2) All pressing or punching machines, such as punch presses, power presses, and plate punches, except those provided with full automatic feed and ejection and with a fixed barrier guard to prevent the hands or fingers of the operator from entering the area between the dies; (3) All bending machines, such as apron brakes and press brakes; (4) All hammering machines, such as drop hammers and power hammers; and (5) All shearing machines, such as guillotine or squaring shears, alligator shears, and rotary shears. The occupations of setting up, adjusting, repairing, oiling, or cleaning these machines, including those with automatic feed and ejection, are also declared hazardous for said minors. (c) This section shall not apply to the employment of any apprentice, trainee, student-learner, or enrollee under conditions prescribed in section 12-25-43. [Eff. Oct. 5, 1981] (Auth: HRS §§390-2, 390-6) (Imp: HRS §390-2) 11 12-25-49 §12-25-47 Occupations in or about slaughtering and meat packing establishments and rendering plants. (a) As used in this section: "Boning occupations" means the removal of bones from meat cuts. It does not include work that involves cutting, scraping, or trimming meat from cuts containing bones. "Curing cellar" includes the workroom or workplace which is primarily devoted to the preservation and flavoring of meat by curing materials. It does not include the workroom or workplace where meats are smoked. "Hide cellar" includes the workroom or workplace where hides are graded, trimmed, salted, and otherwise cured. "Killing floor" includes the workroom or workplace where cattle, calves, hogs, sheep, lambs, goats or horses are immobilized, shackled, or killed, and the carcasses are dressed prior to chilling. "Rendering plants" means establishments engaged in the conversion of dead animals, animal offal, animal fats, scrap meats, blood, and bones into stock feeds, tallow, inedible greases, fertilizer ingredients, and similar products. "Slaughtering and meat packing establishments" means places in or about which cattle, calves, hogs, sheep, lambs, goats, or horses are killed, butchered, or processed. The term shall also include establishments which manufacture or process meat products or sausage casings from such animals. (b) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the following occupations in or about slaughtering and meat packing establishments, rendering plants, or wholesale, retail, or service establishments are declared hazardous for minors under eighteen years of age: (1) All occupations on the killing floor, in curing cellars, and in hide cellars, except the work of messengers, runners, handtruckers, and similar occupations which require entering such workrooms or workplaces infrequently and for short periods of time; (2) All occupations involved in the recovery of lard and oils, except packaging and shipping of such products and the operation of lard-roll machines; (3) All occupations involved in tankage or rendering of dead animals, animal offal, animal fats, scrap meats, blood, and bones into stock feeds, tallow, inedible greases, fertilizer ingredients, and similar products; (4) All occupations involved in the operation or feeding of the following power-driven meat processing machines, including setting up, adjusting, repairing, oiling, or cleaning meat patty forming machines, meat and bone cutting saws, knives (except bacon slicing machines), head-splitters, and guillotine cutters; snout-pullers and jaw-pullers; skinning machines; horizontal rotary washing machines; casing cleaning machines such as crushing, stripping, and finishing machines; grinding, mixing, chopping, and hashing machines; and presses (except belly-rolling machines); (5) All boning occupations; (6) All occupations that involve the pushing or dropping of any suspended carcass, half-carcass, or quarter- carcass; and (7) All occupations involving hand-lifting or hand-carrying any carcass or half-carcass of beef, pork, or horse, or any quarter-carcass of beef or horse. (c) This section shall not apply to: (1) Minors who have attained the age of sixteen engaged in the killing and processing of poultry, rabbits, or small game in areas physically separated from the killing floor; or (2) The employment of any apprentice, trainee, student-learner, or enrollee under conditions prescribed in section 12-25-43. [Eff. Oct. 5, 1981] (Auth: HRS §§390-2, 390-6) (Imp: HRS §390-2)