The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (Jammu and Kashmir) Rules, 2026
Schedule B I
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Manufacture of aerated waters and processes incidental thereto
a. 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 :
b. Face guards and gauntlets.-
I.
The occupier shall provide and maintain in good condition for
use of all persons engaged in filling bottles or
syphons-
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-
i.
paragraph b (I) shall not apply where bottles are filled by
means of an automatic machine so constructed that no
fragment of a bursting bottle can escape ;
Where a machine is so constructed that only one arm of
the bottler at work up to it is exposed to danger, a
gauntlet need not be provided for the arm which is not
exposed to danger.
II. 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;
c. Wearing of face guards and gauntlets.-All persons engaged in any of
the processes specified in paragraph b of this schedule shall, while at work in
such processes, wear the face guards and gauntlets provided under the
provisions of the said paragraph.