Workplace Regulation 1992

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SAFET

EMPLOYEE

HEALTH

WELFARE



Introduction

• Health and Safety form a integral part of an environment.

• Health is a general part of well being .

• It not only include physical wellbeing but also mental and emotional wellbeing.

• Safety refers to the act of protecting the physical well being of an employee.

• It includes the risk of accidents caused due to machinery, fire or diseases.



Responsibility of Manager

• Monitor health and safety of employees.

• Coach employees to be safety conscious.

• Investigate accidents.

• Communicate about safety policy to employees



Responsibilities of supervisors

• Provide technical training regarding prevention

of accidents.

• Coordinate health and safety programs.

• Train employees on handling facilities an

equipments.

• Develop safety reporting systems.

• Maintaining safe working conditions.



Reasons for Occupational

health and safety

• The event of an incident at work such as legal fees, fines, compensatory damages, investigation time

• Lost production, lost goodwill from the

workforce, from customers and from the wider community.

• Legal - Occupational requirements may be

reinforced in civil law and/or criminal law ;

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REQUIREMENT UNDER THESE

REGULATIONS



HEALTH MEASURES

ROOM DIMENSIONS &

SPACE TEMPERATURE

VENTILATION

WORKSTATIONS &

SEATING

SUITABLE &

SUFFICIENT LIGHTING

CLEANLINESS & WASTE

MATERIALS



WELFARE

MEASURES

WASHING

FACILITIES

SANITERY

FACILITIES

CHANGING

FACILITIES &

ACCOMODATION

FOR CLOTHING

FACILITIES FOR REST

& TO EAT MEALS

DRINKING WATER



SAFETY MEASURES

MAINTENANCE

CONDITIONS OF FLOORS &

TRAFFICS RULES

FALLS & FALLING OBJECTS

OPENABLE WINDOWS &

THE ABILITY TO CLEAN

THEM SAFELY

DOORS & GATES

CIRCULATION OF

PEDESTRIANS & VEHICLES

TRANSPARE

NT OR

TRASLUCENT

DOORS,GATE

S OR WALLS

& WINDOWS





INTRODUCTION

• The Factories Act, 1948 came into force on the 1st of April,1949 .

• The Factories Act was amended in 1949,1950, 1954, 1956, 1976 and 1989.

•This law was applicable to only those factories, which employed 50 or more workers.



OBJECTIVE

• To provide safety measures and to promote health and welfare of workers.

• To protect workers against industrial and occupational hazards.

• For that purpose, it seeks to impose upon the owners or the occupiers certain

obligations.



APPLICABILITY

It is Applicable to:-

•whole of India.

• All Factories including Government Factories.

• Factories using power and employing 10 or more workers and 20 without using power.



HEALTH MEASURES

VENTILATION & TEMPERATURE DISPOSAL OF WASTES

CLEANLINESS DUST & FUMES

ARTIFICIAL HUMIDIFICATION OVERCROWDING

LATRINES & URINALS DRINKING WATER

LIGHTING SPITTOONS



SAFETY MEASURES

FENCING OF MACHINERY

CASING OF NEW MACHINES

PRECAUTION IN CASE OF FIRE

SAFETY OF BUILDING &

MACHINERY

SELF ACTING MACHINERY

WORK ON MACHINERYIN MOTION

PROTECTION OF EYES

MAINTENANCE OF

BUILDING

HOISTS & LIFTS

PRECAUTION AGAINST DANGEROUS FUMES

EXCESSIVE WEIGHTS



WELFARE MEASURE

WASHING

FACILITIES

FIRST AID

FACILITIES

FACILITIES FOR

SITTING

CANTEENS

FACILITIES

FOR STORING

& DRYING

CLOTHING

CRECHESREST ROOM &

SHELTER



OTHER PROVISIONS

Working Hours, Spread Over & Overtime of Adults

Weekly hours not more than 48.

Daily hours, not more than 9 hours.

Intervals for rest at least ½ hour on working for 5

hours.

Spread over not more than 10½ hours.

Overlapping shifts prohibited.

Restrictions on employment of women before 6AM

and beyond 7 PM.



Employment of Young Person

Prohibition of employment of young children

e.g. 14 years.

Non-adult workers to carry tokens e.g. certificate

of fitnekss.

Working hours for children not more than 4 ½

hrs. and not permitted to work during night shift

.



Annual Leave with wages

A worker having worked for 240 days @ one day for every 20 days and for a child one day for working

of 15 days. Accumulation of leave for 30 days.





IT PROVIDES PROVISION FOR

HEALTH,WELFARE & SAFETY OF MINE WORKERS



DRINKING

WATER

WORKING

HOURS

CONSERVA

NCY

NOTICE OF

CERTAIN DISEASES

NOTICE

ABOUT

ACCIDENT

MEDICAL

APPLIANCES



DOCK WORKERS ACT

1986

IT PROVIDES FOLLOWING PROVISIONS



• IT PROVIDES FOLLOWING PROVISIONS :-

SURFACE

PASSAGES TO BE

KEPT CLEAR

STAGING

CONSTRUCTION

LIFE SAVING

APPLIANCES

ACCESS BETWEEN

DOCK & HOLD

ILLUMINATION

ACCESS BETWEEN

SHORE & SHIP

RAILING &

FENCING

EXCESSIVE NOISE

FLOOR LOADING

STAIRS

FIRE PROTECTION

WORK ON

STAGING

CONSTRUCTION

FENCING OF DANGEROUS PLACESFIRE PROTECTION





WE HAVE LEARNT

• Labor welfare facilities are those which result in improving the conditions under which workers

are employed and work.

• These include not only the health but also welfare measures adopted for the benefit of the

workers.

• The Factories Act, 1948 has provided for certain health and welfare measures for workers

working in factories in India .



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