To protect young workers from hazardous employment, the Act provides
for a minimum age of 18 years in occupations found and declared by the
Secretary to be particularly hazardous or detrimental to health or well-
being for minors 16 and 17 years of age. Hazardous-occupations orders
are the means through which occupations are declared to be particularly
hazardous for minors. They are issued after public hearing and advice
from committees composed of representatives of employers and employees
of the industry and the public and in accordance with procedure
established in Child Labor Regulations No. 5 published in subpart D of
this part. The effect of these orders is to raise the minimum age for
employment to 18 years in the occupations covered. Seventeen orders,
published in subpart E of this part, have thus far been issued under the
Act and are now in effect. In general, they cover:
No. 1. Occupations in or about plants manufacturing explosives or
articles containing explosive components.
No. 2. Occupations of motor-vehicle driver and helper.
No. 3. Coal-mine occupations.
No. 4. Logging occupations and occupations in the operation of any
sawmill, lath mill, shingle mill, or cooperage-stock mill.
No. 5. Occupations involved in the operation of power-driven
woodworking machines.
No. 6. Occupations involving exposure to radioactive substances.
No. 7. Occupations involved in the operation of power-driven
hoisting apparatus.
No. 8. Occupations involved in the operation of power-driven metal
forming, punching, and shearing machines.
No. 9. Occupations in connection with mining, other than coal.
No. 10. Occupations in or about slaughtering and meat packing
establishments and rendering plants.
No. 11. Occupations involved in the operation of bakery machines.
No. 12. Occupations involved in the operations of paper products
machines.
No. 13. Occupations involved in the manufacture of brick, tile, and
kindred products.
No. 14. Occupations involved in the operation of circular saws,
bandsaws, and guillotine shears.
No. 15. Occupations in wrecking, demolition, and shipbreaking
operations.
No. 16. Occupations in roofing operations.
No. 17. Occupations in excavation operations.
[36 FR 25158, Dec. 29, 1971]