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International:
Convention Concerning the Use of White Lead in Painting, Geneva,
1921
Objectives:
To protect workers from exposure to white lead and sulphate
of lead and of all products containing these pigments.
Summary of Provisions:
- To prohibit the use of white lead, sulphate of lead and
of all products containing these pigments in the internal
painting of buildings, except where such use is considered
necessary by the competent authority after consultation
with the employers and workers organization concerned.
- To prohibit employment of all females and of males under
eighteen years of age, in any painting work of an industrial
character involving the use of white lead or sulphate of
lead or other products containing these pigments.
- To regulate the use of white lead, sulphate of lead and
all products containing these pigments in operations for
which their use is not prohibited, in accordance with the
principles laid down in the Convention.
- To obtain the statistics with regard to lead poisoning
among working painters.
Date of Adoption:
25.10.1921 (Geneva)
Date of entry into force:
31.8.1923
Arab Participants:
Iraq
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