60B. [ Passageways for cranes. [Inserted by Punjab Government Notification No. 467-VII-DS-Lab.-62/6283, dated the 6th March, 1962.]
(1)To provide access to rail track of overhead travelling cranes suitable passageways of at least fifty centimetre (twenty inches) width with toe-board and double hand rails ninety centimetre (three feet) high shall be provided alongside, and clear of, the rail track of over-head travelling cranes, such that no moving Part of the crane can strike persons on the ways, and the passageways shall be at lower level than the crane track itself. Safe access ladders shall be provided at suitable intervals to afford access to these passageways, and from passageways to the rail tracks.](2)The Government may in writing exempt any existing factory from the provisions of sub-rule (1) if by virtue of the construction of the factory it is impossible to provide such a passageway.
