Factories Act, 1934 — section 15

15. Ventilation and temperature..—_(1) Effective and suitable provisions shall be made in every factory for securing and maintaining in every work-room

(a)adequate ventilation by the circulation of fresh air, and

(b)such temperature as will secure to workers therein reasonable conditions of comfort and prevent injury to health, and in particular

(i)the walls and roofs shall be of such material and so designed that such temperature shall not be exceeded but kept as low as practicable ;

(ii)where the nature of the work carried on in the factory involves, or is likely to involve, the production of excessively high temperature, such adequate measures as are practicable, shall be taken to protect the workers therefrom by separating the process which produces such temperature from the work-room by insulating the hot parts or by other effective means.

(2)The Provincial Government may prescribe a standard of adequate ventilation and reasonable temperature for any factory or class or description of factories or parts thereof and direct that a thermometer shall be provided and maintained in such place and position as may be specified.

(3)If it appears to the Provincial Government that in any factory or class or description of factories excessively high temperature can be reduced by such methods as whitewashing, spraying or insulating and screening outside walls or roofs or windows, or by raising the level of the roof, or by insulating the roof either by an air space and double roof or by the use of insulating roof materials, or by other methods, it may prescribe such of these or other methods to be adopted in the factory.