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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...

PROVISIONS RELATING TO HAZARDOUS PROCESSES

Special provisions regarding workers working in hazardous processes under Factories Act ?   PROVISIONS RELATING TO HAZARDOUS PROCESSES (Sections 41A TO 41H) The Factories Act, 1948 under the heading "Provisions relating to hazardous processes" enumerates the various provisions in context to the hazardous processes. The object of provisions:   - to appoint a Site Appraisal Committee that shall grant permission for location of a factory involving a hazardous process. - to ensure that proper disclosures are done by the occupier of every factory where hazardous processes are carried on. - to ensure proper precautions are taken by the occupier of a factory regarding the hazardous processes, such as maintenance of health records of workers involved in such processes, etc The provisions regarding hazardous processes under sections 41 A to 41 H are as follows- (1) CONSTITUTION OF SITE APPRAISAL COMMITTEE (SECTION 41 A)   For the purpose of granting permission for the initial loca...