Schedule I

MANUFACTURE OF AERATED WATERS AND PROCESSES INCIDENTAL

THERETO

1. 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.

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 hand 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.

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.

(2) 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.

(3). Wearing of face guards and gauntlets. - All persons engaged in any of the processes

specified in paragraph 2 of this schedule shall, while at work in such processes, wear the face

guards and gauntlets provided under the provisions of the said paragraph.