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    The document outlines the general duties of an occupier under the Factories Act of 1948. It discusses the occupier's responsibilities to ensure worker health, safety, and welfare. Specifically, it states the occupier must provide a safe working environment, hygienic facilities, safety equipment and training, hazard disclosure for dangerous processes, welfare amenities, regulated working hours, and no child labor.

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    Section 7-A - General Duties of the Occupier under Factories Act,

    1948
    General
     To ensure the health, safety and welfare of all workers while they are at work in the factory.
     To provide and maintain the plant and systems of work in the factory that are safe and without
    risk to health of the workers.
     To provide arrangements in the factory for ensuring safety and absence of risk to health in
    connection with the use, handling, storage and transport of articles and substances
     To provide such information, instruction, training and supervision as are necessary to ensure the
    health and safety of all workers at work.
     To maintain all places of work in the factory in a condition that is safe and without risks to health
    and to provide and maintain such means of access to, and egress from, such places as are safe
    and without such risks.
     To provide, maintain or monitor such working environment in the factory for the workers that is
    safe , without risk to health and adequate as regards facilities and arrangements for their welfare
    at work.
     To prepare a written statement of his general policy with respect to the health and safety of the
    workers at work and the organisation and arrangements in force for carrying out that policy.
    Health
     To provide a clean, well ventilated, well illuminated healthy working environment to all workers, to
    provide adequate drinking water & facilities like latrines, urinals etc.
     To maintain and monitor health of all workers by providing them a healthy , clean, dust/chemical
    free working environment, by providing them suitable personal protective wears, by carrying out
    medical examination, by monitoring the work environment etc.
    Safety
     To provide safe working environment to all workers by providing proper safeguards to dangerous
    parts of machines , by training the workers in safe operating procedures, by providing adequate
    information about the hazardous properties of the chemicals and process, by providing proper
    safety systems in the plant such as pressure / temperature controllers, interlocks, safety valves,
    by providing flameproof electrical fitting in case of handling of flammable chemicals etc.
     To get the lifting machines, tackles and pressure plants examined by a competent person, to
    provide proper fire fighting arrangements etc.
    Hazardous or Major Accident Hazard (MAH) factories
     Occupier of the factory involving a hazardous process shall disclose all the information regarding
    dangers, including health hazards and the measures to overcome such hazards.
     To maintain accurate and up-to-date health record of the workers, to form a safety committee, to
    carry out safety studies such as safety report, safety audit, risk analysis etc., to prepare a onsite
    emergency management plan.
    Welfare
     To provide welfare facilities like lunch rooms, canteen, crèche, washing facilities, first-aid
    appliances etc to all workers.
    Working Hours
     To provide leave with wages facility, to pay overtime wages, to observe working timing
    restrictions regarding all workers.
     Not to employ child workers in the factory.

    for details , please refer the Provisions of Factories Act 1948 and Maharashtra Factories Rules 1963.

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