Undertaking draft signed from employees for providing medicines (at their risk)?

sunilmanikumar
Can I get a undertaking draft to get it signed from employees for providing medicines (tablet) at work place. where it says tablet are taken at my own risk.
KK!HR
If you are that wary, then pl don't provide tablets at all then there is no need to get any indemnity undertaking. Even if you are providing the tablets and even after such undertaking you still owe responsibility for the medicines administered, at least morally and ethically even if you may avoid it legally.
nathrao
Factory is expected to have first aid boxes with certain medicines as laid out in the Act/rules.
No point keeping other medicines.
Undertaking will worsen the matter as it implies that knowingly other medicines which may need doctors prescription is being kept and risk being passed to worker.
Please stick to list given in the Factories Act if your establishment is a factory.
imran_ilu49
Dear Nathrao
Can you provide list of medicines to be kept in first aid box?
Thanking you
nathrao
Kindly refer Section 45 of Factories Act
Section 45 in The Factories Act, 1948
45. First-aid appliances.—
(1) There shall in every factory be provided and maintained so as to be readily accessible during all working hours first-aid boxes or cupboards equipped with the prescribed contents, and the number of such boxes or cupboards to be provided and maintained shall not be less than one for every one hundred and fifty workers ordinarily employed 1[at any one time] in the factory. 2[(2) Nothing except the prescribed contents shall be kept in a first-aid box or cupboard.
(3) Each first-aid box or cupboard shall be kept in the charge of a separate responsible person 3[who holds a certificate in first-aid treatment recognised by the State Government] and who shall always be readily available during the working hours of the factory.] 4[(4)] In every factory wherein more than five hundred workers are 5[ordinarily employed] there shall be provided and maintained an ambulance room of the prescribed size, containing the prescribed equipment and in the charge of such medical and nursing staff as may be prescribed 6[and those facilities shall always be made readily available during the working hours of the factory.
Schedules to Factories Act will give exact contentOnly those items are to be available in the First Aid Box.
gannahope
OH IT LOOKS BARBARIC...
HOW DO PEOPLE GETTING ALL THESE BELOW STANDARD IDEAS..... MEDICINES SHOULD BE GIVEN ONLY BY A QUALIFIED DOCTOR...
WHILE REGARDING OINTMENTS USED ON SKIN SHOULD BE LIKE SMALL INJURIES TAKEN AND APPLIED FROM FIRST AID BOX .
ANY FEVER LIKE DISEASES DOCTOR's care is essential. Injections and in body taking medicines are used under observation of an authorised Mbbs doctor only.No experiments on your employees ...Pls.
Self medication is always prohibited. Sir.
KK!HR
The contents of the First-aid box is mentioned in the respective State Factory Rules. The net extract is given below:
76. First-aid appliance - The first aid boxes or cupboards shall be distinctively marked with a red
cross on a white background and shall contain the following equipment:-
(A) For factories in which the number of persons employed does not exceed ten, or (in the case of
factories in which mechanical power is not used) does not exceed fifty persons-Each first-aid box or
cupboard shall contain the following equipment:-
(i) Six small size sterilised dressings
(ii) Three medium size sterilised dressings
(iii) Three large size sterilised dressings
(iv) Three large size sterilised burn dressings
(v) One (60 ml.) bottle of cetrimide solution (1 per cent) or a suitable antiseptic solution
(vi) One (60 ml.) bottle of mercurochrome solution (2 per cent) in water
(vii) One (30 ml.) bottle containing salvolatile having the doses and mode of administration indicated
on the label.
(viii) One pair of scissors
(ix) One roll of adhesive plaster (2 cms. x 1 metre)
(x) Six pieces of sterilised eye-pads in separate sealed packets
(xi) A bottle containing 100 tablets (each of 5 grains) of aspirin or any other analgesic
(xii) Ointment for burns
(xiii) Polythene wash bottle (1/2 litre i.e. 500 c.c.) for washing eyes
(xiv) A snake-bite lancet
(xv) One (30 ml) bottle containing potassium permanganate crystals
(xvi) One copy of first-aid leaflet issued by the Directorate-General of Factory Advice Service and
Labour Institutes, Government of India, Bombay.
(B) For factories in which mechanical power is used and in which the number of persons employed
exceed ten but does not exceed fifty. Each first-aid box or cupboard shall contain the following
equipment:-
(i) Twelve small size sterilised dressings
(ii) Six medium size sterilised dressings
(iii) Six large size sterilised dressings
(iv) Six large size sterilised burn dressings
(v) Six (15 gm) packets of sterilised cotton wool
(vi) One (120 ml.) bottle of cetrimide solution (1 per cent) or a suitable antiseptic solution.
(vii) One (120 ml.) bottle of mercurochrome solution (2 per cent) in water
(viii) One (60 ml.) bottle containing salvolatile having the dose and mode of administration indicated
on the label.
(ix) One pair of scissors
(x) Two rolls of adhesive plaster (2 cms. x 1 metre)
(xi) Eight pieces of sterilised eye-pads in separate sealed packets
(xii) One tourniquet
(xiii) One dozen safety pins
(xiv) A bottle containing 100 tablets (each of 5 grains) of aspirin or any other analgesic
(xv) Ointment for burns
(xvi) One polythene wash bottle (1/2 litre i.e. 500 c.c.) for washing eyes
(xvii) A snake-bite lancet
(xviii) One (30 ml) bottle containing potassium permanganate crystals
(xix) One copy of the first-aid leaflet issued by the Directorate-General of Factory Advice Service and
Labour Institutes, Government of India, Bombay.
(C) For factories employing more than fifty persons - Each first-aid box or cupboard shall contain the
following equipment:-
(i) Twenty-four small sterilised dressings
(ii) Twelve medium size sterilised dressings.
(iii) Twelve large size sterilised dressings.
(iv) Twelve large size sterilised burn dressings.
(v) Twelve (15 gm.) packets of sterilised cotton wool
(vi) One (200 ml.) bottle of cetrimide solution (1 per cent) or suitable antiseptic solution
(vii) One (200 ml.) bottle of mercurochrome solution (2 per cent) in water
(viii) One (120 ml.) bottle of salvolatile having the dose and mode of administration indicated on
label.
(ix) One pair of scissors
(x) One roll of adhesive plaster (6 cms. x 1 metre)
(xi) Two rolls of adhesive plaster (2 cms. x 1 metre)
(xii) Twelve pieces of sterilised eye-pads in separate sealed packets
(xiii) A bottle containing 100 tablets (each 5 grains) of aspirin or any other analgesic
(xiv) One polythene wash bottle (500 c.c.) for washing eyes.
(xv) Twelve roller bandages 10 cms. wide.
(xvi) Twelve roller bandages 5 cms. wide.
(xvii) Six triangular bandages.
(xviii) One tourniquet
(xix) A supply of suitable splints
(xx) Two packets of safety pins
(xxi) Kidney tray
(xxii) A snake-bite lancet
(xxiii) One (30 ml) bottle containing potassium permanganate crystals
(xxiv) Ointment for burns
(xxv) First-aid leaflet issued by the Directorate General of Factory Advice Service and Labour
Institutes, Bombay:
Provided that items (xiv) to (xxi) inclusive need not be included in the standard first-aid box or
cupboard (a) where there is a properly equipped ambulance room, or (b) if at least one box
containing such item and placed and maintained in accordance with the requirements of section 45 is
separately provided.
(D) In lieu of the dressings required under items (i) and (ii), there may be substituted adhesive wound
dressings approved by the Chief Inspector of Factories and other equipment or medicines that may
be considered essential and recommended by the Chief Inspector of Factories from time to time.]88
Pl get the same verified from the local office of Factory Inspector.
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