Sitting Arrangements As Per Factories Act, 1948

Dear Sirs,
I am doing an assignment, and need your valuable inputs on Whether it is necessary to provide sitting arrangements on the shop floor.
The factories that i have visited did not have any sitting arrangements for workers, but the Factories Act, 1948 says sitting arrangement to be made.
Can i get the guidance on the same.
Pritee Wagh

Dear Pritee

Please gothrough the below chapter from factories act



44.

Facilities for sitting.



44. Facilities for sitting. (1) In every factory suitable

arrangements for sitting shall be provided and maintained for all

workers obliged to work in a standing position, in order that they may

take advantage of any opportunities for rest which may occur in the

course of their work.



(2) If, in, the opinion of the Chief Inspector, the workers in

any factory engaged in a particular manufacturing process or working

in a particular room are able to do their work efficiently in a

sitting position, he may, by order in writing, require the occupier of

the factory to provide before a specified date such seating

arrangements as may be practicable for all workers so engaged or

working.



(3) The State Government may, by notification in the Official

Gazette, declare that the provisions of sub-section (1) shall not

apply to any specified factory or class or description of factories or

to any specified manufacturing process.

you have decide if state government not given any rule regarding.

Eswar.K

manager -HR

08056041800

Sitting arrangements need not mean exactly chairs and tables and may not be feasible on most shop floors. For example, consider workers loading and unloading goods. In the factory I used to work, we had cement benches for the people to sit. Hopefully, that's the 'seating arrangement."

16 Overcrowding:

(1) No room in any factory shall be overcrowded to an extent injurious to the health of the workers employed therein.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of sub-section (1) there shall be in every workroom of a factory in existence on the date of the commencement of this Act at least 1[9.9 cubic metres] and of a factory built after the commencement of this Act at least 2[14.2 cubic metres] of space for every worker employed therein, and for the purposes of this sub-section no account shall be taken of any space which is more than 3[4.2 metres] above the level of the floor of the room.

(3) If the Chief Inspector by order in writing so requires, there shall be posted in each workroom of a factory a notice specifying the maximum number of workers who may, in compliance with the provisions of this section, be employed in the room.

(4) The Chief Inspector may by order in writing exempt, subject to such conditions, if any, as he may think fit to impose, any workroom from the provisions of this section, if he is satisfied that compliance therewith in respect of the room is unnecessary in the interest of the health of the workers employed therein.

For all safety regulation see Indian Labour Laws & Shram Suvidha Simplified