Factories and Plantation

The chemical plants at Taloja and the tea gardens of Assam are as far apart as two workplaces can be, yet both make their workers handle substances that can poison them. A factory worker breathes solvent fumes; a plantation worker sprays pesticide from a backpack tank. Older labour law kept a separate Act for each. The OSH Code folds both into single Parts of one chapter: what does it demand from the occupier of a factory, and what from the employer of a plantation?

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Part VII (ss.79 to 91) makes the occupier of a factory seek plan approval and a licence and, for hazardous processes, disclose dangers, keep health records, appoint competent persons and let workers warn of imminent danger; Part VIII (ss.92 and 93) requires plantation employers to provide housing, crèche, education, health and recreation and to control pesticide and chemical risks.

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