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                    Notes          (vii) Worker’s Participation is Safety Management
                                   (1) The occupier shall, in every factory,  where  a hazardous  process takes  place, or where
                                   hazardous substance are used or handled, set up a Safety Committee consisting of equal number
                                   or representative of workers and management to promote cooperation between the workers
                                   and management in maintaining proper safety and health at work and to review periodically
                                   the measure taken in that behalf:
                                   Provided that the State Government may, by order in writing and for reasons to be recorded,
                                   exempt the occupier of any factory or class of factories from setting up such Committee.
                                   (2) The composition of the Safety Committee, the tenure or office of its members and their rights
                                   and duties shall be such as may be prescribed.

                                   (viii) Right of Workers to Warn about Imminent Danger

                                   Where the workers employed in any factory engaged in a hazardous process have reasonable
                                   apprehension that there is a likelihood of imminent danger to; their lives or health due to any
                                   accident, they may bring the same to the notice of the occupier, agent, manager or any other
                                   person who  is incharge  of the  factory or  the process  concerned directly  or  through  their
                                   representatives in the Safety Committee and simultaneously bring the same to the notice of the
                                   Inspector.
                                   It shall be the duty of such occupier agent, manager or the person incharge or the factory or
                                   process to take immediate remedial Action if is satisfied about the existence of such imminent
                                   danger and send a report forthwith of the Action taken to the nearest Inspector.
                                   If the occupier,  agent, manager  or the person incharge referred to in sub-section  (2) is  not
                                   satisfied about the existence of any imminent danger as apprehended by the worker, he shall,
                                   nevertheless, refer the matter forthwith to the nearest Inspector whose decision on the question
                                   of the existence of such imminent danger shall be final.
                                   Self Assessment


                                   Fill in the blanks:
                                   16.  Section 2 (cb) of the Factories (Amendment) Act, 1987 defines the term ........................... as
                                       any process or Activity in relation to an industry specified in the First Schedule.

                                   17.  The ........................... Committee shall examine an application for the establishment of a
                                       factory involving hazardous process and make its recommendation to the State Government
                                       within a period of ninety days of the receipt.

                                   18.  The maximum permissible threshold limits of exposure of chemical and toxic substances
                                       in manufacturing processes in any factory shall be of the value indicated in ...........................
                                       Schedule.

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                                     Case Study  J. K. Industries Ltd vs. Chief Inspector of
                                                 Fisheries and Boilers


                                        n the landmark case of  J.  K. Industries Ltd vs.  Chief  Inspector of Fisheries and  Boilers
                                        [1996 (7) Scale 247], the Supreme Court observed that by the Amending Act, 1987, the
                                     Ilegislature wanted to bring in a sense of responsibility in the minds of those who have
                                     the  ultimate control  over the  affairs of  the factory so that  they take  proper care  for
                                                                                                         Contd....


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