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Labour Relations Act, 1995 (Act No. 66 of 1995)

Notices

Bargaining Council for the Metal and Engineering Industries

Main Collective Agreement

Part 2

4. Technical Schedules

Schedule G

Section (a): General

(xii) Metal and/or ceramic spraying

 

The following operations in metal and/or ceramic spraying:

 

RATE A

 

1.        Turning (including machining) (n.e.s.).

 

RATE AA

1.        Metal or ceramic spraying for subsequent machining purposes (n.e.s.).

Employees engaged on this operation shall be permitted to determine type of deposition, technique to be used, and shall be permitted to set up metal or ceramic spraying machines for lower-rated employees.

 

RATE D

1. Hand spraying of metal or ceramic coatings where there is no machining required or no change in rate of flow of metal or ceramic and the flame setting is predetermined and set by a Rate AA employee (n.e.s.).

 

RATE DD

1. Attending and/or minding automatic or semi-automatic metal or ceramic spraying machines under the supervision of a Rate AA employee, including the use of pre-set measuring instruments to determine the thickness of the coating, excluding setting up (n.e.s.).

 

RATE E

1. Application of anti-corrosive metal coatings by flame spraying.

 

RATE F

1. Fusing of powdered metal coatings under the supervision of a Rate AA employee.

 

RATE G

1. Preheating of work pieces prior to metal or ceramic spraying by oxyacetylene torch.
2. Preparation of work pieces prior to metal or ceramic spraying by shot blasting and/or similar metal cleaning techniques.