Schedule XXXIII

POWER PRESSES

1. Application: - This Schedule shall apply to all types of power presses including press

brakes, except when used for working hot metal.

2. Definition: -For the purpose of this Schedule, -

i. "approved" means approved by the Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator;

ii. "fixed fencing" means fencing provided for the tools of a power press being fenced

which has no moving part associated with or dependent upon the mechanism of a power and

includes that part of a closed tool which acts as a guard;

iii "power press" means a machine used in moulding, pressing, blanking, raising,

purposes; metal or other industries for drawing and similar other

iv "safety device" means the fencing and any other safeguard provided for the tools of a

power press.

3. Starting and stopping mechanism: - The starting and mechanism shall be provided with

a safety stop so as to prevent over running of the press or descent of the ram during tool

shutting. Etc.

4. Protection of tool and die: -

(i) Each press shall be provided with a fixed guard with slip plate on the underside

enclosing the front and all sides of the tool.

(ii) Each die shall be provided with a fixed guard surrounding its front and sides, and

extending to the back in the form of a tunnel through which the pressed article falls to the rear

of the press.

(iii) The design, construction and mutual position of the guards referred to in sub- Para-

graphs (1) and (2) shall be such as to preclude the possibility of the worker's hand or fingers

reaching the danger zone.

(iv) The machine shall be fed through a small aperture at the bottom of the dye guard, but a

wider aperture may be permitted for second or subsequent operations if feeding is done through

a chute.

(v) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) an automatic or an

interlocked guard may be used in place of a fixed guard, but where such guards are used they

shall be maintained in an efficient working condition and if any guard develops a defect, the

power shall not be operated unless the defect guard is removed.

5. Appointment of persons to prepare power presses for use:-

(1) Except as provided in sub-paragraph (4) of paragraph 4, no person shall set, re-set, adjust

or try out the tools on a power press or install or adjust any safety device thereon, being

installation or adjustment preparatory to production of die proving, or carry out an inspection

and test of any safety device thereon required by paragraph 8 unless he:-

(a) has attained the age of eighteen years;

(b) has been trained in accordance with the sub-paragraph {2); and

(c) has been appointed by the occupier of the factory to carry out those duties in

respect of the class or description of power press or the class or description of safety

device, as the case may be.

(2) The training shall include suitable and sufficient practical instructions in the matter in

relation to each type of power press and safety device in respect of which it is proposed to

appoint the person being trained.

6. Examination and testing of power presses and safety devices:

(1) No power press or safety device shall be taken into use in any factory for the first time

in that factory or in case of a safety device for the firsttime on any power press. unless it has

been thoroughly examined and tested, in the case of a power press, after installation in the

factory or in the power press in connection with which it is to be used.

(2) No power press shall be used unless it has been thoroughly examined and tested by a

competent person within the immediately preceding period oftwe\ve months.

(3) No power press shall be used unless every safety device (other than fixed fencing) thereon

has within the immediately preceding period of six months when in position on that power

press, been thoroughly examinedand tested by a competent person.

(4) The competent person carrying out an examination and test under the foregoing provision

shall make a report of examination and test containing the following particulars and every such

report shall be kept readily available for inspection;

(a) Name of the occupier of the factory;

(b) Address of the factory;

(c) Identification number or mark sufficient to identify the power press or the safety

device, as the case may be;

(d) Date on which the power press or the safety device was first taken into use in

the factory;

(e) The date of each periodical thorough examination carried out as per

requirements of sub-paragraph (2) above;

(f) Particulars of any defects affecting the safe working of the power press or the

safety device found during such thorough examinations and steps taken to remedy such

defects.

7. Defect disclosed through examination and tests:-

(1) Where any defect is disclosed in any power press or in any safety device by any

examination and test under paragraph 6 and in the opinion of the competent person carrying

out the examination and test, either:-

(a) the said defect is a cause of danger to workers and in consequence the power

press or safety device, as the case may be ought not to be used until the said defect has

been remedied; or

(b) the said defect may became a cause of danger to workers and in consequence the

power press or safety device as the case may be, ought not to be used after the expiration

of a specified period unless the said defect has been remedied, such defect shall, as soon

as possible after the completion of the examination and test, be notified in writing by

the competent person to the occupier of the factory and in the case of a defect falling

within clause (b) of this sub-paragraph, such notification shall include the period within

which, in the opinion of the competent person, the defect ought to be remedied.

(2) In every case where notification has been notified under this paragraph, a copy of the report

made under sub-paragraph, a copy of the report made under sub-paragraph (4) of paragraph 6

shall be sent by the competent person to the Inspector-cum-Facilitator of the concerned area

within fourteen days of the completion of the examination and test.

(3) Where any such defect is notified to the occupier in accordance with the foregoing

provisions of this paragraph, the power press or safety device as the case may be, having the

said defect, shall not be used;

(a) in the case of a defect falling within clause (a) of sub-paragraph (1) until the said

defect has been remedied; and

(b) in the case of defect falling within clause (b) of sub-paragraph (1) until the said

defect has been remedied after the expiration of the specified period.

(4) As soon as is practicable, after any defect of which notification has been notified under sub-

paragraph (1), has been remedied, a record shall be made by or on behalf of the occupier stating

the measures by which and the date on which the defect was remedied.

8. Inspection and test of safety devices:

(1) No power press shall be used after the setting, resetting or adjustment ofthe tools

thereon unless a person appointed or authorized for the purpose under paragraph 5 has

inspected and tested every safety device thereon while it is in position on the said power press

and has certified it to in order·

Provided that no inspection, test and certificate shall be required where any adjustment of the

tools has not caused or resulted in any alteration to or disturbance of any safety device on the

power press, and, if after the adjustment of the tools, the safety device remain, in the opinion

of the said person in efficient working order.

(2) Every power press and every safety devices thereon while it is in position on the said

power press shall be inspected and tested by a trained person every day.

9. Defects disclosed during an inspection and test:-

(1) Where it appears to any person as a result of any inspection and test carried out by him

under paragraph 8 that any necessary safety device is not in proper position on a power press

or that any safety device which is in position on a power press, is not in his opinion suitable he

shall notify the same to the manager forthwith.

(2) Except as provided in sub-paragraph (3) where any defect is disclosed in a safety device

any inspection and test under paragraph 8, the person carrying out the inspection and test shall

notify the same to the manager forthwith.

(3) Where any defect in a safety device is the subject of a notification in writing under

paragraph 7 by virtue of which the use of the safety device may be continued during the

specified period without the said defect having been remedied, the requirement in sub-

paragraph (2) of this paragraph shall not apply to the said defect until the said period has

expired.

10. Identification of power presses and safety devices:-For the purpose of identification

every power press and every safety device provided for the same, shall be distinctively and

plainly marked.

11. Training the instructions to operators:-The operators shall be trained and instructed in

the safe method of work before starting work on any power press.

12 Exemptions:-

(1) If in respect of any factory, the Chief lnspector-cum-Fac1litator of Factories is satisfied

that owing to the circumstances or infrequency of the processes or for any other reason, all or

any of the provisions of this schedule are not necessary for the protection of the workers

employed on any power press or in the factory, the Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator may by a

certificate in writing (which he may in his discretion revoke at any time), exempt such factory

from all or ay of such provisions subject to such conditions, if any, as he may specify therein.

(2) Where such exemption is granted, a legible copy of the certificate, showing the conditions

if any. subject to which it has been granted, shall be kept posted in the factory on a place where

it may be conveniently read by the persons employed.