Model
schedules specifying requirements in respect of dangerous processes and
operations notified under Section 87 of the Factories Act.
SCHEDULE - I
Rules
prescribed under Section 87.
120. Dangerous manufacturing processes or
operations
(1)
The following manufacturing processes or operations
when carried on in any factory are declared to
be dangerous manufacturing
processes or operations under section 87 :
I.
Manufacture of aerated water and processes incidental
thereto.
II.
Electrolytic plating or oxidation of metal articles
by use of an electrolyte containing acids, bases or salts or metals such as
chromium, nickel, cadmium, zinc, copper, silver, gold etc.
III.
Manufacture and repair of electric accumulators.
IV.
Glass manufacture.
V.
Grinding or glazing of metals.
VI.
Manufacture and treatment of lead and certain
compounds of lead.
VII.
Generating petrol gas from petrol.
VIII.
Cleaning or smoothing, roughening, etc. of articles
by a jet of sand, metal shoe or grit or other abrasive propelled by blast of
compressed air or steam.
IX.
Liming and tanning of raw hides skins and processes
incidental thereto.
X.
Certain lead processes carried or in printing presses
and type founders.
XI.
Manufacture of pottery.
XII.
Chemical works.
XIII.
Manipulation of stone or any other materials
containing free silica.
XIV.
Handling and processing of asbestos manufacture of
any article of asbestos and any other process of manufacture or otherwise in
which asbestos is used in any form.
XV.
Handling or manipulation of corrosive substances.
XVI.
Processing of cashew nut.
XVII. Compression
of oxygen and hydrogen produced by the electrolysis of water.
XVIII. Process
of extracting oils and fats from vegetable and animal sources in solvent
extraction plants.
XIX.
Manufacture
or manipulation of manganese and its compounds
XX.
Manufacture or manipulation or dangerous pesticides.
XXI.
Manufacture, handling and usage of benzene and substances
containing benzene.
XXII. Manufacturing
process or operations in carbon disulphide plants.
XXIII. Manufacture
or manipulation of carcenogenic dye intermediates.
XXIV. Operations
involving high noise levels.
XXV. Manufacture
of Rayon by Viscose Process.
XXVI. Highly
flammable liquids and flammable compressed gases.
XXVII. Foundry
Operations.
(2) `First
employment’ means employment for the first time in a hazardous process or
operation so notified under Section 87 or re-employment therein after cessation of employment in such process or
operation for a period exceeding three calendar months.
(3) The
provisions specified in the schedules given in Part II shall apply to any class
or description of factories wherein dangerous manufacturing processes or
operations specified in each schedule are carried on.
(4) (a) For
the medical examinations of workers to
be carried out by the certifying surgeon as required by the schedule annexed to this rule, the
occupier of the factory shall pay fees at
the rate of Rs...... per examination of each worker every time he is
examined.
(b) The
fees prescribed in sub-rule (4) (a) shall be exclusive of any charges for
biological, radiological or other tests, which may have to be carried out in
connection with the medical examination.
The occupier
shall pay such charges.
(c) The fees to be paid for medical
examinations shall be paid into the
local treasury under the head of accounts........................
(5) Notwithstanding
the provision specified in the Schedules annexed to this Rule, the Inspector
may by issue of orders in writing to the manager or occupier or both, direct
them to carry out such measures, and within such time, as may be specified in
such order with a view to removing conditions dangerous to the health of the
workers, or to suspend any process, where such process constitutes, in the
opinion of the Inspector, imminent danger of poisoning or toxicity._
(6) Any register or record of medical examinations and tests
connected therewith required to be carried out under any of the Schedules
annexed hereto in respect of any worker shall be kept readily available to the
Inspector and shall be preserved till the expiry of one year after the worker
ceases to be in employment of the factory.
Manufacture of aerated waters and
processes incidental thereto
1.
Fencing of machines. - All machines for filling
bottles or syphons shall be so constructed, placed or fenced, as to prevent, as
far as may be practicable, a fragment of a bursting bottle or syphon form
striking any person employed in the factory.
2.
Face guards and gauntlets. –
(1)
The
occupier shall provide and maintain in good condition for the use of all persons engaged in filling
bottles or siphons -
(a) suitable face guards to protect
the face, neck and
throat; and
(b) suitable gauntlets for both arms to
protect the whole hand and arms :
Provided that paragraph 2(1) shall not apply
where bottles are filled by means of an automatic machine so constructed that
no fragment of a bursting bottle can escape.
Provided further that where a machine is
so constructed that only one arm of the bottler at work upto it is exposed to
danger, a gauntlet need not be provided for the arm which is not exposed to
danger.
(2) The Occupier shall provide and maintain
in good condition for the use of all persons engaged in corking,
crowning, screwing, wiring , foiling, capsuling, sighting or labelling
bottles or syphons -
(a)
suitable face-guards to protect the face, neck and
throat; and
(b)
suitable gauntlets
for both arms to protect the
arm and at least half of the palm and the space between the thumb
and forefinger.
3.
Wearing of face guards
and gauntlets. - All persons
engaged in any of the processes specified in paragraph 2 of
this schedule shall, while at work in such processes, wear the face guards and
gauntlets provided under the provisions of the said paragraph.
