Section 27:- Prohibition of employment of women and children near cotton-openers:-
No woman or child shall be employed in any part of a factory for pressing cotton in which a cotton-opener is at work: Provided that if the feed-end of a cotton-opener is in a room separated from the delivery end by a partition extending to the roof or to such height as the Inspector may in any particular case specify in writing, women and children may be employed on the side of the partition where the feed-end is situated.
INTERPRETATION OF SECTION 27, THE FACTORIES ACT(1948):-
Section 27 of The Factories Act explains that women or child must not be employed for pressing cotton when the cotton opener is at work. This section is included in this Act so as provide adequate safety measure to women and children from the cotton openers which are hazardous in nature. But at the same time women and children can be employed in the feed end of the cotton opener provided the feed end of the cotton opener is separated from the delivery end by means of a partition which extends to the roof or to any height as specified by the inspector in writing.
SECTION 28, THE FACTORIES ACT(1948)
Section 28:- Hoists and lifts
(1) In every factory :-
(a) every hoist shall be :- i. of good mechanical construction sound material and adequate strength; ii. properly maintained, and shall be thoroughly examined by a competent person at least once in every period of six months, and a register shall be kept containing the prescribed particulars of every such examination;
(b) every hoistway and liftway shall be sufficiently protected by an enclosure fitted with gates, and the hoist or lift and every such enclosure shall be so constructed as to prevent any person or thing from being trapped between any part of the hoist or lift and any fixed structure or moving part;
(c) the maximum safe working load shall be plainly marked on every hoist or lift, and no load