FACTORIES ACT, 1948 => CHAPTER 3: HEALTH

11(1)Factory shall be kept clean & free from eflluvia.

(a)Accumulation of dirt & refuse shall be removed daily. (b)Floor of workroom shall be cleaned atleast once a week. (c)Effective means of drainage shall be provided and maintained, where floor liable to become wet. (d)All inside walls & partitions, ceilings, top of rooms, sides & top of passages & staircases shall be painted/cleaned at prescribed intervals. (e)the dates on which the processes of (d) carried out, shall be entered in prescribed register. 11(2)Power of State Government to EXEMPT (by order) any of provisions of Sub-section(1) in certain cases.

Section 11: CLEANLINESS

Section 12: DISPOSAL OF WASTES AND EFFLUENTS

12(1) Effective arrangements shall be made for

treatment of wastes & affluents due to manufacturing process.

12(2) State Government may make rules prescribing arrangements to be made in sub-section (1).

13(1) Effective & Suitable provision for securing and

maintaining: (a)Adequate Ventilation by circulation of fresh air and (b)such a temperature as will secure to workers reasonable conditions of comfort & prevent injury to health 13(2)State Government may prescribe a standard of adequate ventilation & reasonable temperature. 13(3)Chief Inspector may prescribe measures to reduce temperaturewithout prejudice to sub-section (2), if he feels temperature in factory is excessively high.

Section 13: VENTILATION & TEMPERATURE

Section 14: DUST AND FUMES

14(1) Effective Measures shall be taken to prevent inhalation

of dust or fume or other impurity, which are injurious or offensice to the workers. 14(2) No stationary internal combustion engine shall be operated unless the exhaust is conducted into open air.

15(1)Factories in which the humidity of the air is artificially Section 15: ARTIFICIAL HUMIDIFICATION

increased State Government shall make rules regarding humidification. 15(2)Water used for artificially increasing humidity shall be taken from public supply or other source of drinking water, or shall be effectively purified. 15(3)Incase Inspector feels that water used for humidification is not effectively purified, he may serve an order on manager of the factory specifying measures & requiring them to be carried before a specified date. health of workers. 16(2)There shall be atleast 9.9 m3 space for every worker employed on the date of commencement of this Act and atleast 14.2 m3 space after the commencement of the Act. 16(3)Chief Inspector, if he so requires, can specify the maximum number of workers employed in a room by posting a notice in each workroom. 16(4)Power of Chief Inspector to exempt by order in writting, as he may feel so from the provisions of this section in certain cases.

16(1)No room shall be overcrowded to an extent injurious to Section 16: OVERCROWDING

17(1) Povision for providing and maintaining suitable Section 17: LIGHTING
lighting, natural or artificial or both. 17(2) All glazed windows & skylights for lighting of the workroom shall be kept clean on both inner & outer surfaces. 17(3) Provision shall be made for the prevention of glare of sunlight and formation of shadows which can cause eye strain or cause risk of accident. 17(4)State Government may prescribe standards of sufficient & suitable lighting in factories.

 18(1)Effective arrangements for providing and Section 18: DRINKING WATER

maintaining sufficient supply of wholesome drinking water at convenient places. 18(2)All such points shall be legibly marked "Drinking Water" in a language understood by majority of the workers and no such place shall be situated within 6 m of washing place, latrines, spitoons,etc. 18(3)Where more than 250 workers employed, provision shall be there for cooling drinking water during hot weather. 18(4)Power of State Government to make rules for securing compliance with subsections (1),(2),(3). accomodation shall be provided(separate enclosedfor male and female), adequately lighted, and maintained in clean & sanitary condition at all times. Sweepers shall be employed whose primary duty would be to keep the latrines/urinals and wash places clean. 19(2) In factories with more than 250 workers, specifications are provided for floors/internal wall, etc. 19(3)State Government may prescribe number of latrines & urinals provided in any factory in proportion with male and female workers.

19(1) In every factory, sufficient latrines and urinal

Section 19:

LATRINES AND URINALS

20(1) In every factory sufficient number of spitoons Section 20: SPITOONS

shall be provided, maintained at hygienic condition 20(2) State Government may make rules regarding type & number of spitoons to be provided. 20(3) No person shall spit within thw premises of a factory except in the spitoons provided for that purpose. 20(4)Whoever spits in contravention with (3) shall be fined not exceeding Rs 5.

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