SAFETY PROVISIONS OF FACTORIES ACT 1948 Section 21 to 41 of Chapter III of the Factories Act, 1948 contained the safety provisions of factories act act 1948 of the workers. These provisions are made to provide the safe working environment in the factories to the workers. Safety is the basic and primary requirement and these provisions are incorporated in the act to ensure safety of workers against accidents and hazardous jobs. The details of the provisions are as follows: SECTION 21: FENCING OF MACHINERY There is compulsion on the part of occupier of the factory to ensure the proper fencing of machinery with the best method. No occupier can avoid this liability on account of any financial or mechanical reasons. The following machinery must be securely fenced by safeguards of substantial construction: Every moving part of the prime mover and every flywheel connected to a prime mover. The headrace and tailrace of every water-wheel and water turbine. An...
FACTORY ACT REGULATIONS WITH REGARD TO SAFETY The objective of avoiding loss of lives and other industrial losses through accidents lead to follow the factory act regulation. For example Workman Compensation Act-1923 provides employer’s liability for compensation. Compensation depend upon the condition that injury must have resulted either in death or partial disablement of an employee for a period acceding three days during employment and accident must have arisen out of and during employment. Factory act 1948 defines various terms of factories like manufacturing process, machinery, worker, power, prime mover etc. It lays down rules for fencing of machinery for safeguard nearby work and machinery in motion. Now a days, Indian factory act of 1949 is in force which presently also provides for a large number of regulations regarding safety for health of workers which include cleanliness, ventilation and temperature controls, humidity,...