PART A - Occupations & PART B - Processes

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THE SCHEDULE
(See Sec.3)

PART  A

Occupations

Any occupation concerned with: -

(1)               Transport of passengers, goods or mails by railways;
(2)               Cinder picking, clearing of an ash pit or building operation in the railway premises;
(3)               Work in a catering establishment at a railway station, involving the movement of a vendor or any other employee of the establishment from the one platform to another or in to or out of a moving train;
(4)               Work relating to the construction of a railway station or with any other work where such work is done in close proximity to or between the railway lines;
(5)               A port authority within the limits of any port;
* (6)    Work relating to selling of crackers and fireworks in shops with temporary
            licenses;
# (7)    Abattoirs/Slaughter House;
$ (8)    Automobile workshops and garages;
(9)               Foundries;
(10)           Handling of toxic or inflammable substances or explosives;
(11)           Handloom and power loom industry;
(12)           Mines (underground and under water) and collieries;
(13)           Plastic units and fibreglass workshops;
**(14)  Domestic workers or servants and
**(15)  Dhabas (roadside eateries), restaurants, hotels, motels, tea shops,   resorts, spas or other recreational centres.
$$ (16)  Diving
(17)     Caring of Elephant
(18)      Working in the circus

PART  B

Processes

(1)               Beedi-making.
(2)               Carpet-weaving.
(3)               Cement manufacture, including bagging of cement.
(4)               Cloth printing, dyeing and weaving.
(5)               Manufacture of matches, explosives and fire-works.
(6)               Mica-cutting and splitting.
(7)               Shellac manufacture.
(8)               Soap manufacture.
(9)               Tanning.
(10)           Wool-cleaning.
(11)           Building and construction industry.
* (12)      Manufacture of slate pencils (including packing).
* (13)       Manufacture of products from agate.
* (14)       Manufacturing processes using toxic metals and substances such as  
               lead, mercury, manganese, chromium, cadmium, benzene, 
                 pesticides  and asbestos.


# (15)   “Hazardous processes” as defined in Sec. 2 (cb) and ‘dangerous
operation’ as notice in rules made under section 87 of the Factories  Act, 1948 (63 of 1948)
# (16) Printing as defined in Section 2(k) (iv) of the Factories Act, 1948 (63    of 1948)
            # (17)   Cashew and cashewnut descaling and processing.
            # (18)   Soldering processes in electronic industries.
            $ (19)   ‘Aggarbatti’ manufacturing.
(20)        Automobile repairs and maintenance including processes incidental thereto namely, welding, lathe work, dent beating and painting.
(21)        Brick kilns and Roof tiles units.
(22)        Cotton ginning and processing and production of hosiery goods.
(23)        Detergent manufacturing.
(24)        Fabrication workshops (ferrous and non ferrous)
(25)        Gem cutting and polishing.
(26)        Handling of chromite and manganese ores.
(27)        Jute textile manufacture and coir making.
(28)        Lime Kilns and Manufacture of Lime.
(29)        Lock Making.
(30)        Manufacturing processes having exposure to lead such as primary and secondary smelting, welding and cutting of lead-painted metal constructions, welding of galvanized or zinc silicate, polyvinyl chloride, mixing (by hand) of crystal glass mass, sanding or scraping of lead paint, burning of lead in enameling workshops, lead mining, plumbing, cable making, wiring patenting, lead casting, type founding in printing shops.  Store type setting, assembling of cars, shot making and lead glass blowing.
(31)        Manufacture of cement pipes, cement products and other related work.
(32)        Manufacture of glass, glass ware including bangles, florescent tubes, bulbs and other similar glass products.
(33)        Manufacture of dyes and dye stuff.
(34)        Manufacturing or handling of pesticides and insecticides.
(35)        Manufacturing or processing and handling of corrosive and toxic substances, metal cleaning and photo engraving and soldering processes in electronic industry.
(36)        Manufacturing of burning coal and coal briquettes.
(37)        Manufacturing of sports goods involving exposure to synthetic materials, chemicals and leather.
(38)        Moulding and processing of fiberglass and plastic.
(39)        Oil expelling and refinery.
(40)        Paper making.
(41)        Potteries and ceramic industry.
(42)        Polishing, moulding, cutting, welding and manufacturing of brass goods in all forms.
(43)        Processes in agriculture where tractors, threshing and harvesting machines are used and chaff cutting.
(44)        Saw mill – all processes.
(45)        Sericulture processing.
(46)        Skinning, dyeing and processes for manufacturing of leather and leather products.
(47)        Stone breaking and stone crushing.
(48)        Tobacco processing including manufacturing of tobacco, tobacco paste and handling of tobacco in any form.
(49)        Tyre making, repairing, re-treading and graphite beneficiation.
(50)        Utensils making, polishing and metal buffing.
(51)        ‘Zari’ making (all processes)’.
@  (52)     Electroplating;
(53)      Graphite powdering and incidental processing;
(54)      Grinding or glazing of metals;
(55)      Diamond cutting and polishing;
(56)      Extraction of slate from mines;
(57)      Rag picking and scavenging.
$$(58) Processes involving exposure to excessive heat (e.g. working near furnace) and cold;
(59) Mechanised fishing;
(60) Food Processing;
(61) Beverage Industry;
(62) Timber handling and loading;
(63) Mechanical Lumbering;
(64) Warehousing;
(65) Processes involving exposure to free silica such as slate, pencil industry, stone grinding, slate stone mining, stone quarries, agate industry.”

a.       for item (2), the following item shall be substituted, namely:-
     ‘(2) carpet weaving including preparatory and incidental process         thereof”;

b.      for item(4), the following item shall be substituted, namely:-
“(4) cloth printing, dyeing and weaving including processes preparatory and incidental thereto:

c.       for item (11)  the following shall be substituted, namely:-  “(11) 
     Building and Construction Industry including processing and
     polishing of granite stones”.
                 

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