29. Highly flammable liquids and gases
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THE SECOND SCHEDULE
[See section 18(2)(f)]
List of matters:
(i) fencing of machinery;
(ii)  work on or near machinery in motion;
(iii) employment of adolescents on dangerous machines;
(iv) striking gear and devices for cutting off power;
(v) self acting machines;
(vi) casing of new machinery;
(vii) prohibition of employment of women and children near cotton openers;
(viii) hoists and lifts;
(ix) lifting machines, chains, ropes and lifting tackles;
(x) revolving machinery;
(xi) pressure plant;
(xii) floors, stairs and means of access;
(xiii) pits, sumps, openings in floors and other similar indentation of area;
(xiv) safety officers;
(xv) protection of eyes;
(xvi) precautions against dangerous fumes, gases, etc.;
(xvii) precautions regarding the use of portable electric light;
(xviii) explosive or inflammable dust, gas, etc.;
(xix) safety committee;
(xx) power to require specifications of defective parts or tests of stability;
(xxi) safety of buildings and machinery;
(xxii) maintenance of buildings;
(xxiii) prohibition in certain cases of danger;
(xxiv) notice in respect of accidents;
(xxv) court of inquiry in case of accidents;
(xxvi) safety management in plantation;
(xxvii) the general requirement relating to the construction, equipments and
maintenance for the safety of working places on shore, ship, dock, structure and other
places at which any dock work is carried on;
(xxviii) the safety of any regular approaches over a dock, wharf, quay or other
places which dock worker have to use for going for work and for fencing of such
places and projects;
(xxix) the efficient lighting of all areas of dock, ship, any other vessel, dock
structure or working places where any dock work is carried on and of all approaches to
such places to which dock workers are required to go in the course of their employment;
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(xxx) adequate ventilation and suitable temperature in every building or an
enclosure on ship where dock workers are employed;
(xxxi) the fire and explosion preventions and protection;
(xxxii) safe means of access to ships, holds, stagings, equipment, appliances
and other working places;
(xxxiii) the Construction, maintenance and use of lifting and other cargo handling
appliances and services, such as, pallets containing or supporting loads and provision
of safety appliances on them, if necessary;
(xxxiv) the safety of workers employed in freight container terminals of other
terminals for handing unitized cargo;
(xxxv) the fencing of machinery, live electrical conductors, steam pipes and
hazardous openings;
(xxxvi) the construction, maintenance and use of staging;
(xxxvii) the rigging and use of ship's derricks;
(xxxviii) the testing, examination, inspection and certification as appropriate of'
loose gears including chains and ropes and of slings and other lifting devices used in
the dock work;
(xxxix) the precautions to be taken to facilitate escape of workers when employed
in a hold, bin, hopper or the like or between decks of a hold while handing coal of other
bulk cargo;
(xl) the measures to be taken in order to prevent dangerous methods of' working
in the stacking, unstacking, stowing and unstowing of cargo or handing in connection
therewith;
(xli) the handling of dangerous substances and working, in dangerous or harmful
environments and the precautions to be taken in connection with such handling;
(xlii) the work in connection with cleaning, chipping painting, operations and
precautions to be taken in connection with such work;
(xliii) the employment of persons for handling cargo, handling appliances, power
operated batch covers or other power operated ship's equipment such as, door in the
hull of a ship, ramp, retraceable car deck or similar equipment or to give signals to the
drivers of such machinery;
(xliv) the transport of dock workers;
(xlv) the precautions to be taken to protect dock workers against harmful effects
of excessive noise, vibration and air pollution at the work place;
(xlvi) protective equipment and protective clothing;
(xlvii) the sanitary, washing and welfare facilities;
(xlviii) the medical supervision;
(xlix) the ambulance rooms, first aid and rescue facilities and arrangements for
the removal of dock workers to the nearest place of treatment;
(l) the investigation of occupational accidents, dangerous occurrences and
diseases, specifying such diseases and the forms of' notices, the persons and
authorities to whom, they are to be furnished, the particulars to be contained in them
and the time within which they are to be submitted; and
(li) the submission of statement of accidents, man-days lost, volume of cargo
handled and particulars of dock workers.
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(lii) the safe means of access to, and the safety of, any working place, including
the provision of suitable and sufficient scaffolding at various stages when work cannot
be safely done from the ground or from any part of a building or from a ladder or such
other means of support;
(liii) the precautions to be taken in connection with the demolition of the whole
or any substantial part of a building or other structure under the supervision of a
competent person child the avoidance of danger from collapse of any building or
other structure while removing any part of the framed building or other structure by
shoring or otherwise;
(liv) the handling or use of explosive under the control of competent persons so
that there is no exposure to the risk of injury from explosion or from flying material;
(lv) the erection installation, use and maintenance of transporting equipment,
such as locomotives, trucks, wagons and other vehicles and trailers and appointment
of competent persons to drive or operate such equipment;
(lvi) the erection, installation, use and maintenance of hoists, lifting appliances
and lifting gear including periodical testing and examination and heat treatment where
necessary, precautions to be taken while raising or lowering loads, restrictions on
carriage of persons and appointment of competent persons on hoists or other lifting
appliances;
(lvii) the adequate and suitable lighting of every workplace and approach thereto,
of every place where raising or lowering operations with the use of hoists, lifting
appliances or lifting gears are in progress and of all openings dangerous to building
workers employed;
(lviii) the precautions to be taken to prevent inhalation of dust, fumes, gases or
vapours during any grinding, cleaning, spraying or manipulation of any material and
steps to be taken to secure and maintain adequate ventilation of every working place
or confined space;
(lix) the measures to be taken during stacking or unstacking, stowing or
unstowing of materials or goods or handling in connection therewith;
(lx) the safeguarding of machinery including the fencing of every fly-wheel and
every moving part of prime mover and every part of transmission or other machinery,
unless it is in such a position or of such construction as to be safe to every worker
working only of the operations and as if it were securely fenced:
(lxi) the safe handling and use of plant, including tools and equipment operated
by compressed air:
(lxii) the precaution to be taken in case of fire;
(lxiii) the limits of weight to be lifted or moved by workers;
(lxiv) the safe transport of workers to or from any workplace by water and
provision of means for rescue from drowning;
(lxv) the steps to be taken to prevent danger to workers from live electric wires
or apparatus including electrical machinery and tools and from overhead wires;
(lxvi) the keeping of safety nets, safety sheets and safety belts where the special
nature or the circumstances of work render them necessary for the safety of the
workers;
(lxvii) the standards to be complied with regard to scaffolding, ladders and
stairs, lifting appliances, ropes, chains and accessories, earth moving equipment and
floating operational equipments;
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(lxviii) the precautions to be taken with regard to pile driving, concrete work,
work with hot asphalt, tar or other similar things, insulation work, demolition operations,
excavation, underground construction and handling materials;
(lxix) the safety policy, that is to say, a policy relating to steps to be taken to
ensure the safety and health of the building workers, the administrative arrangements
therefore and the matters connected therewith, to be framed by the employers and
contractors for tile operations to be carried on in a building or other construction
work;
(lxx) emergency standards for enforcement of suitable standards in respect of
hazardous processes in a factory;
(lxxi) the maximum permissible threshold limits of exposure of chemical and
toxic substances in manufacturing processes (whether hazardous or otherwise) in any
factory;
(lxxii) lightning;
(lxxiii) any other matter which is the Central Government considers under the
circumstance for better working condition for safety at the work place.
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THE THIRD SCHEDULE
[See section 12(1)]
List of Notifiable Diseases