Schedule IX

GENERATION OF GAS FROM DANGEROUS PETROLEUM:

1. Prohibition relating to women and young persons- No pregnant women or young person shall be

employed or permitted to work in or shall be allowed to enter any building in which the generation of gas

from dangerous petroleum is carried on.

Provided that women workers may be employed with their consent to work subject to the following

conditions :-

(1) International Safety standards shall be adopted by the occupier for providing Occupational

Safety and Health (OSH).

(2) The occupier shall, as far as possible, modernise the above processes/places from time to time

and will use modern equipments.

(3) Women workers who are feeding mothers shall be exempted from the Employment.

2. Flame traps.—The plant for generation of gas from dangerous petroleum and associated piping

and fittings shall be fitted with at least two efficient flame traps so designed and maintained as to prevent a

flash back from any burner to the plant. One of these traps shall be fitted as close to the plant as possible.

The plant and all pipes and valves shall be installed and maintained free from leaks.

3. Generating building or room.—All plants for generation of gas from dangerous petroleum shall

be erected outside the factory building proper in a separate well ventilated building (hereinafter referred to

as the "generating building"). So far as practicable, all such generating rooms shall be constructed of fire-

resisting materials.

4. Fire extinguishers.—An efficient means of extinguishing petrol fires shall be maintained in any

easily accessible position near the plant for generation of gas from dangerous petroleum.

5. Plant to be approved by Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator—Petrol gas shall not be manufactured

except in a plant for generating petrol gas the design and construction of which has been approved by the

Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator

6. Escape of petrol.—Effective steps shall be taken to prevent petrol from escaping into any drain

or sewer.

7. Prohibition relating to smoking, etc.—No person shall smoke or carry matches, fire or naked

light or other means of producing a naked light or spark in the generating room or building or in the vicinity

thereof and warning notice in the language understood by the majority of the employees shall be posted in

the factory prohibiting smoking and the carrying of matches, fire or naked light or other means of producing

a naked light or spark into such room or building.

8. Access to petrol or containers.—No unauthorized person shall have access to any petrol or to a

vessel containing or having actually contained petrol.

9. Electric fittings.—All electric fitting shall be of flame proof construction and all electric

conductors shall either be enclosed in metal conduites or be lead-sheathed.

10. Construction of doors.—All doors in the generating room or building shall be constructed to

open outwards; or to slide and no door shall be locked or obstructed or fastened in such a manner that it

cannot be easily and immediately opened from the inside while gas is being generated and any person is

working in the generating room or building.

11. Repair of containers.—No vessel that has contained petrol shall be repaired in a generating

room or building and no repairs to any such vessels shall be undertaken unless live steam has been blown

into the vessel and until the interior thoroughly steamed out or other equally effective steps have been taken

to ensure that it has been rendered free from petrol or inflammable vapour