- To ensure adequate safety measures and to promote the health and welfare of the workers employed in factories.
- To prevent haphazard growth of factories through the provisions related to the approval of plans before the creation of a factory.
Scope and coverage
- Regulates working condition in factories.
- Basic minimum requirements for ensuring safety, health and welfare of workers.
- Applicable to all workers.
- Applicable to all factories using power and employing 10 or more workers, and if not using power, employing 20 or more workers on any day of the preceding 12 months.
Main provisions
- Compulsory approval, licencing and registration of factories.
- Health measures.
- Safety measures.
- Welfare measures.
- Working hours.
- Employment of women and young persons.
- Annual leave provision.
- Accident and occupational diseases.
- Dangerous operations.
- Penalties.
- Obligations and rights of employees.
When to consult and refer
- On starting a factory.
- Throughout the life of the factory.
