Provision regarding health for workers under Factories Act,1948.
Explain provision regarding health for workers under Factories Act,1948. PROVISIONS REGARDING HEALTH (Section 11-20) The Factories Act 1948 under the heading 'Health' enumerates the various requirements relating to cleanliness, ventilation, overcrowding etc., provided for in Sections 11 to 20. This section is confined to cleanliness. The section imposes an obligation on the occupier to keep the factory in clean state and elaborate details and prescribes the method in which it is to done. The Object of Provisions Regarding Health: - to make provisions to maintain a healthy state of cleanliness in a factory to form general directions to keep a factory free from effluences and waste material - resulting from the manufacturing process carried on in a factory. - to make adequate arrangements for maintaining adequate ventilation, coding, lighting and temperature in a factory. - to prevent overcrowding in a factory and make adequate provisions for the supply of drinking w...