important points on Fac­to­ries Act 1948.

Notes and one liner important points on Fac­to­ries Act 1948.


1. Crèche is to be pro­vided if 30 or more lady em­ploy­ees are en­gaged.


2. The term Sab­bat­i­cal is con­nected with Paid leave for study.


3. Sec­tion 2 (K) of the Fac­to­ries Act 1948 Says about Man­u­fac­tur­ing Process 


4. If the fac­tory em­ploys more than 1000 Work­ers, they should ap­point qual­i­fied Safety Of­fi­cer to carry out the pre­scribed du­ties.


5. For con­tra­ven­tion of pro­vi­sions of Fac­to­ries Act or Rules, the oc­cu­pier shall Li­able for pun­ish­ment up to 2 years or fine up to Rs.1,00,000 or both.


6. If any em­ployee found vi­o­lat­ing the sec­tion 20 of Fac­to­ries Act 1948 shall be fine up to Rs. 5.


7. Sec­tion 41- G of the Fac­to­ries Act 1948 says about Work­ers par­tic­i­pa­tion in safety man­age­ment.


8. The oc­cu­pier of a Fac­tory has to sub­mit the doc­u­ment on or be­fore 31st Oc­to­ber of every year to re­newal of a li­cense for a fac­tory. 


9. The re­newal ap­pli­ca­tion for a li­cense sub­mit­ted by a fac­tory af­ter De­cem­ber 31st of the every year shall pay the fine amount 20% of the li­cense fee. 


10. Where 250 or more work­ers or more work­ers are em­ployed in a fac­tory, then there shall be a Safety Com­mit­tee in the fac­tory.


11. The an­nual re­turn un­der the Fac­to­ries Act shall be sub­mit­ted to In­spec­tor of Fac­to­ries on or be­fore 31st Jan­u­ary.


12. The num­ber of elected work­ers in the can­teen man­ag­ing com­mit­tee shall not be more than more than 5 or less than 2.


13. As per Fac­to­ries Act, "child" means a per­son who has not com­pleted his 15 th year of age.


14. The first Fac­to­ries Act was en­acted in  1881


15. A per­son who has ul­ti­mate con­trol over the af­fairs of the fac­tory un­der Fac­to­ries Act, 1948 is called as Oc­cu­pier


16. A premises in­clud­ing precincts thereof is a ‘fac­tory’ within the mean­ing of the Fac­to­ries Act, 1948 wherein a man­u­fac­tur­ing process is be­ing car­ried on with­out the aid of power and where the num­ber of work­ers work­ing is  20 or more work­ers.


17. Third Sched­ule  of the Fac­to­ries Act, 1948 spec­i­fies Beriyl­lium poi­son­ing, An­thrax and Ar­senic poi­son­ing or its se­que­lae etc, as no­ti­fi­able dis­eases.


18. The space for every worker em­ployed in the Fac­tory af­ter the com­mence­ment of Fac­to­ries Act, 1948 should be 14.2 Cu­bic Me­ters.  


19. The pro­vi­sion for cool­ing wa­ter dur­ing hot weather should be made by the or­ga­ni­za­tion if it em­ploy­ees 250 or more em­ploy­ees.  


20. who has com­pleted 15 years but less than 18 years is an Ado­les­cent as per Fac­to­ries  Act, 1948.


21. Drink­ing Wa­ter,Crèches,Can­teen is the Wel­fare pro­vi­sion un­der Fac­to­ries Act, 1948.


22. First Aid Boxes is to be pro­vided for 150 of per­sons.


23. To avoid over­crowd­ing the space pro­vided for each worker un­der the Fac­to­ries Act, 1948 is 9.9 cu­bic me­tres for fac­to­ries built be­fore 1948 and 14.2 cu­bic me­ters for those built af­ter 1948.


24.Am­bu­lance room shall be pro­vided if 500 work­ers are em­ployed in the fac­tory un­der the Fac­to­ries Act, 1948.


25.The max­i­mum daily hours of work in a day with nor­mal wage al­lowed in fac­to­ries is 9 hours.


26.fol­low­ing state­ments re­lat­ing to Wel­fare Of­fi­cer is  true.

(A) The pro­vi­sion of Wel­fare Of­fi­cer is given in both the Fac­to­ries Act, 1948 and the Mines Act, 1952.
(B) Wel­fare Of­fi­cer’s ap­point­ment is tagged to the pro­vi­sion of min­i­mum work­force em­ployed in an or­gan­i­sa­tion
(C) The Wel­fare Of­fi­cer’s role was de­signed as a ‘Third force’.