Schedule ‘F’

Continuous Process Factories

(Rule 86)

1. The following classes of work in the under mentioned classes of factories shall be deemed to

be of the nature of continuous process referred to in Rule 86 and shall be exempt from the

provisions of section 26, section 27 and rule made therein to such a extent as stated in the

conditions below-

Classes of Factories Class of work

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(i) Electrical Work of workers attending to boilers turbines, engines, generators,

generating motors, boosters, switchboards, transmissions machinery, cables,

stations and batteries and auxiliaries.

distributing sub-

stations.

(ii) Water works and Work of workers attending to boilers, engines, motors,

water pumping Switch boards, pumps and auxiliaries.

stations.

(iii) Sugar factories and Work of workers attending to-

refineries working

(a) boilers, engines, motors, switchboards and pumps;

on the vacuum pan

system. (b) handling and crushing cane and handling gur to melting blow- ups;

(c) engaged in filtration, clarification and crystallisation of cane juice

and gur liquor;

(d) engaged in evaporation and concentration of cane juice and gur

liquor;

(e) engaged in curing the massacuite;

(f) engaged in drying, crushing and bagging of sugar;

(g) engaged in the burning of lime stone and sulphur, for production of

carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide gases, for the clarification of

cane juice.

(iv) Distilleries The work of workers attending to-

(a) boilers, engines, motors, switchboards and pumps;

(b) diffusion of mahua;

(c) working of molasses;

(d) fermentation of wash;

(e) yeast propagation;

(f) distillation process.

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(v) Breweries The work of workers attending to-

(a) boilers, engines and pumps;

(b) melting, coppers, hop back, coolers and refrigerators.

(vi) Rosin and The work of male workers attending to-

Turpentine.

(a) boilers, engines, pumps, motors and switch boards;

(b) distillation of rosin;

(c) refining of turpentine;

(d) filtration and casting of rosin.

(vii) Ice factories The work of workers attending to-

(a) boilers and ice-making machinery;

(b) receptacles for the production of ice.

(viii) Chemical works The work of workers attending to-

(a) boilers, pumps and compressors;

(b) the manufacture of sulphuric, nitric and hydrochloric acids,

ammonia, magnesium sulphate, alum, hyposulphite and sulphite of

soda, sodium sulphate, sodium sulphide, nitrate of potash, alumina

and bi-chromate of potash.

(ix) Distillation of The work of workers attending to boilers and distillation processes.

sandal wood and

essential oils.

(x) Plate and sheet The work of the following classes of workers-

glass factories

(a) gas producers, window and plate glass machine men, tank men,

and glass bangles

factories. sheet-glass carriers and lift attendants and workers employed on

glass blowing machines in tank and pot furnaces when run in

conjunction with the glass furnace;

(b) firemen, engine and boiler attendants.

(xi) Straw-boards The work of workers attending to-

factories.

(a) boilers, engines, turbines, generators, motors, switch-boards and

pumps;

(b) cooking, milling, beating and straw-board machines.

(xii) Kiln, seasoning of The work of workers attending to-

timber and bobbin

(a) boilers, engines, pumps, motors, dynamos and switch-boards;

stone enamelling.

(b) timber, seasoning, Kiln.

(c) stone-enamellings chamber.

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(xiii) Vegetable oil The work of workers attending to-

Hydrogenation

factories. (a) boilers, generators, motors, transformers, switch-boards and

water softening plants;

(b) refining, bleaching, distillation (deodorisation) and hardening

plants, soldering, labelling, packing and storing of containers;

(c) the production and compression of hydrogen and oxygen gases;

(xiv) Production and The work of workers attending to generator and compressors.

or compression

of oxygen and

acetylene gases.

(xv) Soap factories The work of workers attending to-

(a) boilers, generators, motors, switch-boards;

(b) boiling, scratching and framing.

(xvi) Paper mills The work of workers attending to-

(a) boilers, engines, turbines, generators, motors, switch-boards and

pumps;

(b) cooking, milling, beating, straw-board and paper manufacturing

machines.

(xvii) Electrical steel Work of workers attending to transformers, electrode controls, hydraulic

smelting pumps, scrap cutting and transporting, furnacemen, ladenmen, pitside

furnaces.

workers and workers attending to moulds for ingot.

(xviii) Rolling mills Ingot transporters, furnace men, furnace coolies, tongsmen working at

various rolling mills (such as rougher’s and loopers) workers on the

cooling bed, motormen, straighteners, workers engaged in stacking of

finished material and attendants of shares and other auxiliary

machinery.

(xix) Starch factories Work of workers engaged in the manufacture of starch and its by-

products, except those employed in the engineering departments and

workshops.

(xx) Glue and gelatine Work of workers engaged in the manufacture of glue and gelatine including

mills. soaking, boiling, spreading, chopping and drying.

(xxi) Biscuit factories Work of workers engaged in the mixing of the dough, baking, drying, and

packing biscuits.

(xxii) Cement factories The work of workers attending to -

(a) attending to boilers, engines, motors, switch-boards and pumps;

(b) engaged in preparation of raw materials, cement mills, working in

conjunction with the continuous Kilns, cement grinding, packing

and storing.

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(xxiii) Cold storage Work of workers attending to motors and compressors.

factories.

(xxiv) Capacitors Work of workers engaged in Anodic, forming of Aluminium foils and

making other connected processes.

factories.

(xxv) All factories Work of workers attending boilers.

(xxvi) Manufacture of The work of workers attending to

audio-video

(a) engaged in operations and process of mixing coating,

magnetic tape

calendaring, and utility services, and

(b) attending to planetary mixing machine, high speed dissolver,

puddle mixer, media mill tank mixer, sand mill, filter unit; coating

machine, calendaring machine; air compressors, air handling

unit, chilling plant and cooling towers.

(xxvi) Petrol pump, Work of workers engaged in services of fuel filling by pumping of oil or

CNG or other any other manufacturing process.

fuel filling

station

(xxvii) Manufacture of The work of workers engaged in processes of the:

fruit based

(a) Raw material section;

beverages

(b) Processing section;

(c) Packaging section; and

(d) Work of male worker attending to Weighing machine, fork lift

for material handling, battery, charging machine, D.M. plant,

pulper pulp pressuriser and cooler, pulp and syrup tanks,

blending tank, pasturiser, ready juice tank, homogenizer, filling

and packing machines, shrink wrapping, tray packing, oil

packing and air blower and control boards.

(xxviii) Manufacture of The work of workers;

polyester

(a) engaged in operations and processes of

filament yarn

- Polymerisation;

- Spinning and Take-up:

- Draw twisting/drawtexurizing

(b) attending to boiler, diesel generator set, heat transfer media,

compressor, water-treatment plant, slurry circulation vessel, and

equipments used in processes specified in (a) above.

(xxix) Manufacture of The work of workers:

Television,

(a) engaged in operations and processes of; Shadow/Panel Mark

Computer or

Assembly; Stabilising & Baking Black matrix: Screen Coating:

Mobile

Aluminising: Panel Baking, Internal Magnetic Shield and Funnel

monitors

Preparation; Frit Sealing, Gun Sealing, Exhaust; and Aging

Processes.

(b) Attending to Annealing furnace; Blackening, furnace; Mask washing

machine; Spot welding machine; Stab furnace; Coatingmachine;

Phosphor recovery unit; Frit sealing/ furnace; Exhaust furnace; Frit

mixer; Blending and taping machine; Scrubbers; Heat exchangers;

Air handling units; Pumps; Motors and Chillers

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(xxx) Manufacture of The work of workers :

Polyster film/

(a) engaged in operations and processes of : Batch Mixing,

polypropylene

film rolls. Crystallising and Drying Extrusion, Casting and Primary Gauzing:

Orientation of Molecule in Machine Direction/Transverse

Direction; Secondary Gauge System; Winding, Film Trim Cutting

and Gauge Monitoring; Winding of Film on Steel Core; Slitting and

Packing

(b) attending to: Feeder, Mixer, Crystallizer, Dryer; Extruder; Casting

and Primary Gauge Machine; Machine Direction Orientater;

Transverse Direction Orienter, Pull Roll Stand Secondary Gauge

Equipment; Winder; Slitting and Packing Machine; Printing

Machine; Laminator, and Extrusion Laminator; Pouch Making

Machine.

(xxxi) Manufacture of The work of workers :

CD-R & CD-

(a) engaged in operations and processes of: Mixing; Moulding, Dye

RW

Coating, Image Printing, Drying; Sputtering, Lacquer

Dispensing; and UV Curing.

(b) attending to :

Plannery, Tere mixing, High speed dissolver; Puddle mixture;

Media mill; Tank mixer; Sand mill filter unit; Coating machine;

Calendering machine; Air compressors; Air handling units;

Chilling plant; D.G. sets, and Cooling towers.

(xxxii) Manufacture of The work of workers :

Refrigerators

(a) engaged in Vacuum Forming Process, PU Foaming Process,

Assembly Line, Brazing and Cold Roll Forging (CRF) operations,

(b) attending to Vacuum Forming Machine, PU Foaming Machine,

Brazing Machine, Pick and Place Machine, Paint booths,

Coolers/Chiller, air compressors, Cooling Towers, Diesel,

Generating sets, Cold Roll Forging (CRF) Machine and Press

Machines.

(xxxiii) Manufacture The work of workers :

Washing

(a) engaged in Injection Moulding Operation, Cold Roll Forging (CRF)

Machine

and assembly operation.

(b) attending to Moulding Machine, Pick and Place Machine, Curing

Machine, Coolers/Chiller, Air Compressor, heat exchanger, Paint

booths, Diesel

The Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator may declare, in writing, any other classes of work or

classes of factories for any technical reason as a continuous process by his general or special

order.

Conditions :

(i) Such worker shall be employed on three eight-hour shifts system. An interval for rest of half

an hour shall be allowed to every such worker some time during each shift he is required to

work.

(ii) No such workers shall be employed for more than fourteen consecutive days without a

holiday of twenty-four consecutive hours.

(iii) The total daily hours of work shall not exceed 10 with a spread over of 12 hours except in an

emergency when it is necessary to employ a shift worker for more than 8 hours in any day to

enable him to work whole or part of the subsequent shift. In no case shall the worker be

employed for more than 16 hours in a period of 24 hours from the commencement of work,

and the total number of hours of overtime shall also not exceed 115 in any quarter:

Provided that where subsequent shift or any part thereof during which a shift worker

is employed as aforesaid falls on a weekly holiday, compensatory period of rest shall also be

given on a day which is neither a festival nor a weekly holiday.

(iv) The Manager shall also enter the period of extra time worked and the extent of compensatory

period of rest in the respective registers and shall note therein the time of commencement of

such extra time work before its commencement.

(v) The system of shifts shall be approved by an Inspector-cum-Facilitator before enforcement.

(vi) All workers working in excess of 8 hours a day or 48 hours a week in a factory shall be paid in

respect of such additional hours at the rate of twice the ordinary rate of any in accordance

with the provisions of Section 27 of the Code.

(vii) Every worker shall be given a compensatory holiday in accordance with Section 26 of the

code and rule therein.