One of Britain's most skilled crafts under threat as new health and safety rules to force out older artists

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Stained glass painters are raising concerns over proposed Health and Safety Executive regulations that they claim will devastate a craft dating back 1,300 years in Britain.The HSE has put forward plans to significantly reduce the permissible blood lead levels for workers, a move that artists warn will force older craftspeople and women out of the profession entirely.Under the proposed regulations, the maximum permitted blood lead concentration for general employees would fall from 60 micrograms per decilitre to 30mcg by October next year, with a further reduction to 15mcg scheduled two years after that.Women classified as having "reproductive capacity" who are under 50 face even more stringent requirements, with their threshold set to plummet from the current 30mcg/dl to just 7.5mcg/dl by October next year.

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