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Basic Conditions of Employment Act, 1997 (Act No. 75 of 1997)RegulationsBCEA Regulations on Hazardous Work by Children8. Prohibited work |
| (1) | It is an offence for any person to require or permit a child worker to work in any of the following— |
| (a) | deep sea fishing; |
| (b) | commercial diving or other hazardous work underwater; |
| (c) | slaughtering of animals; |
| (d) | meat, poultry, or seafood processing; |
| (e) | the manufacture or packing of tobacco products or any other work in which there is exposure to tobacco dust; |
| (f) | logging; |
| (g) | the protecting or safeguarding of any person or property, or work involving the handling of firearms; |
| (h) | the refining of petroleum products; |
| (i) | filling cars with petroleum or other chemical fuels at a filling station, or doing work close to such activity; |
| (j) | the brewing manufacturing or selling of any liquid which in its final form would contain more than one per cent of alcohol; |
| (k) | work in a bar, shebeen, tavern or pub, or another establishment whose primary business is to sell alcoholic beverages to the general public, for consumption on the premises; |
| (l) | the manufacture or application of tar or asphalt; |
| (m) | work involving an exposure, or potential exposure, to blood-borne or airborne pathogens; |
| (n) | work in health care or veterinary or related facility, in circumstances where there is likely exposure to biological agents, including but not limited to Hepatitis, HIV, and tuberculosis, anaesthetics, anti-neoplastic medications or addictive drugs; |
| (o) | work involving exposure to any of the following— |
| (i) | hazardous substance or agent; |
| (ii) | lead, asbestos, silica, coal or other hazardous dusts; |
| (iii) | pressurised gases; |
| (p) | the production, transport, handling, storage, use of or other work involving exposure to explosives or flammable substances; |
| (q) | work in a casino or other gambling establishment; |
| (r) | electrical work involving high voltage cables or other power sources in excess of 250 volts; |
| (s) | welding, brazing or soldering; |
| (t) | rock or stone crushing; |
| (u) | the operation of vibrating equipment such as rock drills and riveters; |
| (v) | operating tractors, winches, forklift vehicles, front end loaders, earth moving equipment or similar heavy equipment; |
| (w) | driving of any motor vehicles or mobile plant; |
| (x) | work in vehicles transporting passengers or heavy goods; |
| (y) | work in a confined space. |
