SENATE BILL NO. 519

78th GENERAL ASSEMBLY

RSMo: Sections 170.005, .007 & .009

AN ACT

Requiring all students and teachers to wear approved eye protective devices when participating in certain vocational, industrial arts and chemical-physical courses of instruction.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:

Section 1. Every student, teacher and visitor is required to wear an industrial quality eye protective device when participating in or observing any of the following courses in schools, colleges, universities or other educational institutions:

(1) Vocational, technical, industrial arts, chemical, or chemical-physical shops or laboratories involving exposure to the following: hot molten metals, or other molten materials; gas or electric arc welding, or other forms of welding processes; repair or servicing of any vehicle; caustic or explosive materials;

 

(2) Chemical, physical, or combined chemical-physical laboratories involving caustic or explosive materials, hot liquids or solids, injurious radiations or other hazards not enumerated.

 

Section 2. As used in this act, “Industrial Quality Eye Protective Devices” means devices meeting the standards of the American National Standard Practice for Occupational and Educational Eye and Face Protection, Z 87.1 – 1989, and subsequent revisions thereof, approved by the American National Standards Institute, Inc.

 

Section 3. The state board of education and the coordinating board for higher education shall prepare and circulate to each public and private educational institution in this state instructions and recommendations for implementing the eye safety provisions of this act.

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