Duties of 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.

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.

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 / temp. 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 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 on site
emergency control plan.