Type:Preventive Compliance Frequency: Quarterly

Action to be taken:
Ensure that all workrooms have at least 14.2 cubic metres of space (9.9 cubic metres for factories built before the 1st of April 1949) for every worker employed there. In this calculation, no account is to be taken of any space which is more than 4.2 metres above the level of the floor

Audit Requirement:
Do all workrooms in the factory employ not more than the maximum number of workmen permissible with regard to the area of the workroom ?

Supporting Documents:
Details of Workroom Sizes and Number of workers employed there

Related Triggers:
Starting A New Manufacturing Process

Related Keywords:
Work Rooms/Work Area

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Related Sections:
Factories Act, 1948
Chapter:Chapter III - Health| 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 9.9 cubic meters and of a factory built after the commencement of this Act at least 4.2 cubic meters 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 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.