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LABOUR WELFARE

AND LEGISLATION

MHRM IIIrd Sem

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The Factories Act, 1948

In the year 1948, the Factories Act, 1934 was

revised and its scope extended to include

welfare, health, cleanliness, overtimepayments and similar measures.

Act was to ensure proper, safe and healthy

working conditions in the factories, so that

worker may feel interest and while in factoriesdevote their time.

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It provides the better safe guards in the use

and handling of hazardous substances in

factories. It call upon the management to provide for

greater safety measure, appointment of

safety officers in factories where 1000 or

more workers are employed, or where in anymanufacturing process or operation is carried

on, which involves any risk.

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Object of the Act

The object of the Act is to protect human

beings from being subject to unduly long

hours of bodily strain or manual labour. It also seeks to provide that employees

should work in healthy and sanitary

conditions, so far as manufacturing process

will allow and that precautions should betaken for their safety and for the prevention of

accident.

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Provisions under Factory Act

1. Health:

a. Cleanliness (Section 11):

It provides the general cleanliness of the

factory.

it lays down that dust, fumes and refuse

should be removed daily, stair-cases andpassage should be cleaned regularly by

sweeping and other effective means.

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While washing of interior walls and roofs

should take place at least once in 14

months and where these are painted

with washable water paint.

Further, all doors and windows frames

and other wooden and shutters shouldbe kept painted at least once in five

years.

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b. Disposal of waste and effluents

(section-12)

it makes the obligatory on the owner of

every factory to make effective

arrangement for the treatment of waste

and effluents due to manufacturing

process carried on therein.

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c. Ventilation and Temperature

(Section 13)

The occupier is required to make

effective and suitable provisions for

securing and maintaining in every

workroom adequate ventilation for the

circulation of fresh air and to maintain

such temperature as will secure toworkers reasonable conditions of

comfort and prevent injury to health.

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d. Dust and fume (Section 14)

It deals with the measures which should

be adopted to keep the workrooms free

from dust and fume.

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