Ventilation
Workplaces need to be adequately ventilated. Fresh, clean air should be drawn from a source outside the workplace, uncontaminated by discharges from flues, chimneys or other process outlets, and be circulated through the workrooms.
Ventilation should also remove and dilute warm, humid air and provide air movement which gives a sense of freshness without causing a draught. If the workplace contains process or heating equipment or other sources of dust, fumes or vapours, more fresh air will be needed to provide adequate ventilation.
Windows or other openings may provide sufficient ventilation but, where necessary, mechanical ventilation systems should be provided and regularly maintained.
The way it used to be!
Store must open promptly at 6am until 9pm all year round.
Store must be swept, counter, base shelves and showcases dusted.
Lamps trimmed, filled and chimney cleaned, pens made, doors and windows opened.
A pail of water and scuttle of coal must be brought in by each assistant before breakfast, if there is time to do so and attend customers who call.
Any employee who is in the habit of smoking Spanish cigars, getting shaved at a barber’s shop, going to dances, and other such places of amusement will surely give his employer reason to be suspicious of his integrity and all round honesty.
Each employee must pay not less than one guinea per year to the church, and attend Sunday School every Sunday.
Men are given one evening a week for courting purposes and two if they go to prayer meetings regularly.
After 14 hours’ work spare time should be devoted to reading good literature.
Old notice to shop assistants
in East Anglia 1854.
Wages and Conditions
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Is the main union that represents the shop workers in Stores & Supermarkets in Dundee and the rest of the UK
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About your trade union, the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers. It looks at the union at work, taking up members’ problems and negotiating with employers, in order to improve members’ wages and conditions.
