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Health / safety in the Victorian Age - Coggle Diagram
Health / safety in the Victorian Age
1802 Factory Act
beginning of health/ safety regulations
for workers
sufficent windows/ ventilation
limited 12h for apprentices/ granted training (reading, writing, arithmetic)
1833 Factory Act
limited
9 to 13 to 9h.
13-18 to 12h.
under the age of 9 illegal
appointed factory inspectors
persons who then influenced legislation
machinery guarding/ accident reporting
1847
limited w.h. of women/ young p. (13-18) in textile factories to 10h.
1880
extended regulations to agricultural labourers
The Employers’ Liability Act
the right to seek compensations
OWEN’s idea
Social reformer
Horrified by the unhealty/ hazardous w. conditions in industrial
Wanted to meet the needs of the w. classes
1813 he wrote and published
invested his profits to improve (lives of his w.)
1799 bought the New Lanark
model factory
and village (large housing complex)
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w.h. limited
to 10h.
the y.p. of 10 (no work)