- In all injurious branches of production, arrangements have been made to provide special clothing which shall protect the worker from dust, gases, damp, etc.
- All the workers are provided with overalls, which belong to the works, and are to be used by the worker during working hours only.
- To supervise the actual carrying out of all labour protection measures, a system of Labour Inspection has been founded, elected by general conferences of the workers. In the case of individual trades characterised by peculiar working conditions, and in the case of trades (such as transport, the building trade, and agriculture) in which from the nature of the occupation the workers are peculiarly disintegrated, special committees for labour inspection are elected by the respective trade unions.
The figures relating to the personnel of the new inspectors show the extent to which the workers are themselves participating in this matter. Down to August 1, 1919, 58.5 per cent. of all the inspectors were manual workers. The real proportion was probably higher, for in the case of a good many of the inspectors the previous occupation was not stated. Among all the inspectors whose previous occupation is recorded, the proportion of those stated to have been manual workers is 62.5 per cent., and the proportion of those stated to have been employees is 15.5 per cent. Thus the manual workers and the employees together comprise 88 per cent. of all those whose occupation is stated!
The following table gives details down to August 1, 1919, showing the distribution of inspectors according to previous occupation.