First Schedule of Factories Act, 1948
LIST OF INDUSTRIES INVOLVING HAZARDOUS PROCESSES
- Ferrous metallurgical Industries
– Integrated Iron and Steel
– Ferro-alloys
– Special Steels
- Non-ferrous metallurgical Industries
– Primary Metallurgical Industries, namely, zinc, lead, copper manganese and aluminium
- Foundries (ferrous and non-ferrous)
– Castings and forgings including cleaning or smoothing/roughening by sand and shot blasting.
- Coal (including coke) industries.
– Coal, Lignite, Coke, etc.
– Fuel Gases (including Coal gas, Producer gas, Water gas)
- Power Generating Industries
- Pulp and paper (including paper products) industries
- Fertiliser Industries
– Nitrogenous
– Phosphatic
– Mixed
- Cement Industries
– Portland Cement (including slag cement, puzzolona cement and their products)
- Petroleum Industries
– Oil Refining
– Lubricating Oils and Greases
- Petro-chemical Industries
- Drugs and Pharmaceutical Industries
– Narcotics, Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
- Fermentation Industries (Distilleries and Breweries)
- Rubber (Synthetic) Industries
- Paints and Pigment Industries
- Leather Tanning Industries
- Electro-plating Industries
- Chemical Industries
– Coke Oven by-products and Coaltar Distillation Products
– Industrial Gases (nitrogen, oxygen, acetylene, argon, carbon-dioxide, hydrogen, sulphur-dioxide, nitrous oxide, halogenated hydro-carbon, ozone etc.)
– Industrial Carbon
– Alkalies and Acids
– Chromates and dichromates
– Leads and its compounds
– Electrochemicals (metallic sodium, potassium and magnesium, chlorates, perchlorates and peroxides)
– Electrothermal produces (artificial abrasive, calcium carbide)
– Nitrogenous compounds (cyanides, cyanamides and other nitrogenous compounds)
– Phosphorous and its compounds
– Halogens and Halogenated compounds (Chlorine, Fluorine, Bromine and Iodine)
– Explosives (including industrial explosives and detonators and fuses)
- Insecticides, Fungicides, herbicides and other Pesticides Industries
- Synthetic Resin and Plastics
- Man-made Fibre (Cellulosic and non-cellulosic) Industry
- Manufacture and repair of electrical accumulators
- Glass and Ceramics
- Grinding or glazing of metals
- Manufacture, handling and processing of asbestos and its products
- Extraction of oils and fats from vegetable and animal sources
- Manufacture, handling and use of benzene and substances containing benzene
- Manufacturing processes and operations involving carbon disulphide
- Dyes and Dyestuff including their intermediates
- Highly flammable liquids and gases.]