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which makes it obligatory on the part of the employer to provide for the health, safety and welfare of the workers employed.

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to every factory wherein 10 or more workers are or were employed, if run with power and 20 or more workers are or were employed, if run without power. Application to factories with fewer workers u/s 85

Hours of work (adult) not to exceed 48 hours in a week or 9 hours in a day. Relaxation: Where an adult worker is engaged in urgent repairs. Payment of Overtime wages for overstay at workplace @ twice the ordinary rate of wages. ** Provision relating to hours of work not applicable to supervisory staff. Weekly Holiday: No work for more than 10 days without a day of rest. Intervals of rest: half an hour for 5 hours of work No child (who has not attained the age of 15 years) be permitted to work. Prohibition of employment of Women: No woman shall be employed in any factory for more than 9 hours in any day or between 7 pm and 6 am.

adequate safeguards in the factory as regards occupational safety and health, equal opportunity for women workers, adequate protection of their dignity, honor and safety and their transportation from the factory premises to the nearest point of their residence" are made.

1day for every 20 days provided ----240 days of work during preceding year. Days of lay off, paid holidays or leave days considered Encashment of unavailed leave: Encashable at the present rate of wages.

Provide each employee a Leave Book- thick bound sheet- in FORM 16 (with similar entries as in Form 15) Provide each worker an Attendance Card in form 28 showing the particulars of employment * shall be substituted by Electronic cards

white washing at least once in every 14 months repainting or revarnishing every 5 years ensure proper disposal of wastes and effluents Record the dates on which white washing, painting or varnishing done in a register in FORM 7. Ensure provision of sufficient number of Latrines and urinals separate for gents and ladies Ensure spittoons are provided at adequate places. Ensure workplace has adequate ventilation Avoid overcrowding ensure 500 cubic feet of space for every worker without reference to any space which is more than 14 feet above the level of the floor of the room. Ensure proper lighting- artificial or natural or both. Ensure supply of uninterrupted supply of Drinking Water.

Fencing of Machines and Moving parts of machines spindles, gears, pulleys, belts etc Protection of eyes using screens or goggles from excessive light or infra-red or ultra violet radiations Precaution in case of Fire. No woman or young person shall, unaided by another person, lift, carry or move by hand or head any material or tool exceeding the maximum limit prescribed. * Adult male 75 Kgs * Adult female 30 Kgs * Adolescent male 30 Kgs * Adolescent female 20 Kgs Safety Officer: Appoint a Safety Officer wherein

1000 or more workers are employed.

Washing facility separately for women and men Separate rooms for men and women for drying of clothes Separate rest rooms for men and women First Aid boxes equipped with prescribed medicines Ambulance room where 500 or more are employed Canteen for use of workers where 250 or more are employed (150 under Plantation Labour Act) Lunch room where 150 or more are employed Crches where 30 or more women are employed Appoint WELFARE OFFICER (S) where 500 or more are employed (300 under PLA) The duties, qualification and conditions of service of such welfare officers shall be in accordance with the rules of the respective State Govt. NOTICE OF DANGEROUS OPERATIONS

Attendance Register/ Muster roll in form 25 Register of Adult Workers in form 12 Record of Lime washing, painting etc in form 7 Register of Compensatory Holidays in form 9 Overtime Muster roll for Exempted workers in form 10 Register of Leave with Wages in form 15 Health Register in form 17 (in respect of persons employed in occupations declared to be dangerous operations u/s 87) Register of Accidents and Dangerous Occurrences in form 26 Particulars of Rooms in the factory in form 35.
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Notice of accidents and dangerous occurrences resulting in death or bodily injury in form 18 (similar to the one to be sent ESI Local Office under the ESI Act) Half yearly returns in form 22 Annual returns in form 21 Notice of change of Manager in form 23 Details of closure in form 32 Report of examination of Pressure Vessel or Plant in form 8 Report of examination of Water sealed Gas holder in form 38 Report of Examination of Hoist or Lift in form 41 Certificate of Fitness for Dangerous Operations in form 39
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5.. - In any case of public emergency the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, exempt any factory or class or description of factories from all or any of the provisions of this Act except section 67 for such period and subject to such conditions as it may think fit : Provided that no such notification shall be made for a period exceeding three months at a time.

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The State Government may, on its own or on an application made in this behalf by an occupier, direct, by an order in writing, and subject to such conditions as it Fray deem fit, that for all or any of the purposes of this Act different departments or branches of a factory of the occupier specified in the application shall be treated as separate factories or that two or more factories of the occupier specified in the application shall be treated as a single factory

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(1) The State Government may make rules - (a) requiring, for the purposes of this Act, the submission of plans of any class or description of factories to the Chief Inspector or the State Government; (aa) requiring, the previous permission in writing of the State Government or the Chief Inspector to be obtained for the site on which the factory is to be situated and for the construction or extension of any factory or class or description of factories; (b) requiring for the purpose of considering applications for such permission the submission of plans and specifications; (c) prescribing the nature of such plans and specifications and by whom they shall be certified; (d) requiring the registration and licensing of factories or any class or description of factories, and prescribing the fees payable for such registration and licensing and for the renewal of licences; (e) requiring that no licence shall be granted or renewed unless the
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(2) If on an application for permission referred to in clause (aa) of sub-section (1) accompanied by the plans and specifications required by the rules made under clause (b) of that sub-section, sent to the State Government or Chief inspector by registered post, no order is communicated to the applicant within three months from the date on which it is so sent, the permission applied for in the said application shall be deemed to have been granted. (3) Where a State Government or a Chief Inspector refuses to grant permission to the site, construction or extension of a factory or to the registration and licensing of a factory, the applicant may within thirty days of the date of such refusal appeal to the Central Government if the decision appealed from was of the State Government and to the State Government in any other case. Explanation : A factory shall not be deemed to be extended within the meaning of this section by reason only of the replacement of any plant or machinery, or within such limits as may be prescribed, of the addition of any plant or machinery if such replacement or addition does not reduce the minimum clear space required for safe working around the plant or machinery or adversely affect the environmental conditions from the evolution or emission of steam, Raghubar Jha heat or dust or fumes injurious to health.

(1) The State Government may make rules - (a) requiring, for the purposes of this Act, the submission of plans of any class or description of factories to the Chief Inspector or the State Government; (aa) requiring, the previous permission in writing of the State Government or the Chief Inspector to be obtained for the site on which the factory is to be situated and for the construction or extension of any factory or class or description of factories; (b) requiring for the purpose of considering applications for such permission the submission of plans and specifications;
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(c) prescribing the nature of such plans and specifications and by whom they shall be certified; (d) requiring the registration and licensing of factories or any class or description of factories, and prescribing the fees payable for such registration and licensing and for the renewal of licences; (e) requiring that no licence shall be granted or renewed unless the notice specified in section 7 has been given.
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(2) If on an application for permission referred to in clause (aa) of sub-section (1) accompanied by the plans and specifications required by the rules made under clause (b) of that sub-section, sent to the State Government or Chief inspector by registered post, no order is communicated to the applicant within three months from the date on which it is so sent, the permission applied for in the said application shall be deemed to have been granted. (3) Where a State Government or a Chief Inspector refuses to grant permission to the site, construction or extension of a factory or to the registration and licensing of a factory, the applicant may within thirty days of the date of such refusal appeal to the Central Government if the decision appealed from was of the State Government and to the State Government in any other case.

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