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The State authorities has projected to amend the Tamil Nadu Factories Rules, 1950, to let women successful astir 20 operations listed arsenic ‘dangerous’ and from which they were prohibited from being employed so far. It besides proposes to amend rules to get written consent from women workers who are funny to enactment nighttime shifts.
A notification of the draught amendments to the Tamil Nadu Factories Rules was issued by the Labour Welfare and Skill Development Department past month. Objections, if any, should person been sent to the authorities wrong 45 days of the notification, which was issued connected September 9 this year.
The State authorities besides seeks to amend the rules to forestall large women successful the works/processes listed nether ‘dangerous operations’. The trades successful which women are acceptable to beryllium allowed are: electrolytic process, pb process, solid manufacture, and manufacture and attraction of pb and definite compounds of lead.
Generation of state and unsafe petroleum, blasting, liming and tanning of earthy hides and skins, graphite powdering, printing property and benignant foundries involving pb material, cashew-nut processing, dyeing, stencilling and coating of mats, mattings, and carpets successful coir and fibre factories, and pottery, are among the jobs that person been opened for women workers.
Chemical works, manufacture of dichromates and carcinogenic dye intermediates, process of extracting oils and fats successful solvent extraction plants, fireworks and lucifer factories, manufacture of manganese, dangerous pesticides, use of benzene, and operations involving precocious sound levels (with precocious vibration levels) are the others.
