The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (Andhra Pradesh) Rules, 2026
Schedule I
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MANUFACTURE OF AERATED WATERS AND OTHER BOTTLING
PROCESSES
1. Fencing of machines
All machines for filling bottles or syphons shall be so constructed, placed or
fenced as to prevent at far as may be practicable, a fragment of a bursting
bottle or syphon from 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 hands and arms :
Provided that-
(i) 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, and
(ii) where a machine is so constructed that only one arm of the bottle at work
upon it is exposed to danger, a gauntlet
(2) The occupier shall provide and maintainin good condition for the useof all
persons engaged in corking, crowning, screwing, wiring, foiling, capsuling,
sighting handling or labeling 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 atleast 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)
shall, while at work in such processes, wear the faceguards and gauntlets
provided under the provisionsof the said paragraph.