MANUFACTURE AND STORAGE OF EXPLOSIVES REGULATIONS

MANUFACTURE AND STORAGE OF EXPLOSIVES

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 33.01

MANUFACTURE AND STORAGE OF EXPLOSIVES

REGULATIONS

1st January, 1937

GOVERNMENT NOTICE 410 of 1936.

The title of these Regulations is Manufacture and Storage

of Explosives Regulations.

Smoking, lighting of fires, and the introduction of matches

and smoking materials into any building used for the manufacture

of fireworks or the manipulation or storage of explosives is

prohibited.

Benches and floors in any such building shall be covered

with linoleum of a type approved by the Commissioner of Police

and shall be kept clean and free from grit. Cotton rags and waste

shall not be left lying about within the building.

An adequate supply of water buckets shall be kept inside

the building in case of fire.

A barrier shall be erected where explosives are being

manufactured or stored. No person shall be allowed inside the

barrier unless he is wearing overshoes of a type approved by the

Commissioner of Police, which shall at all times be left inside the

barrier when not in use. The ends of trousers worn by any person

entering the building are to be turned down and brushed before

crossing the barrier.

No article of iron or steel shall be introduced inside any

explosives factory; only tools and instruments made of wood, brass

or copper approved by the Commissioner of Police shall be utilized

for the manufacture of explosives.

The following directions shall be observed in the

construction and maintenance of buildings which may be used for

the manipulation and manufacture of explosives

(a) the buildings should be low and narrow and based on

sound rock foundations and sufficiently strong to

withstand air pressure which may be generated by

explosions in adjacent buildings;

(b) windows shall be made to fit tightly and open

outwards, and are to be protected on the inside by a

wire grille;

(c) door and window fastenings, hinges, bolts, locks and

keys shall be made of copper or copper alloy;

(d) ventilators shall be well baffled to prevent the ingress

of sparks;

(e) windows, ventilators, doors and passages shall be so

arranged as to leave a current of air through the whole

building when being ventilated;

MANUFACTURE AND STORAGE OF EXPLOSIVES

(f)

all inside corners in store-rooms must be rounded so as

to facilitate cleaning. Floors and walls shall be kept

free from cracks and crevices up to a height of one

point two metres;

(g) no packages containing more than 200 lbs. of

explosive material shall be stored in any building;

(h) all windows shall be of frosted wired glass;

(i)

paint containing lead pigments, ground quartz or silica

shall not be used;

(j)

doors, windows and other wooden fittings shall be

covered with sheet asbestos, sheet copper or other fire

resisting material.