Is Cloak room mandatory as per Factories Act?

hr-arkel
Is Cloak room mandatory as per Factories Act with around 50 employees ? If yes, please provide the section under which this is mentioned.
Shailesh Parikh_HR Pro
Not cloak room excatly, but storing facility as per Mharashtra Factories Rule as reproduced below:
75. Facilities for storing and drying clothing - All classes of factories mentioned in the schedule annexed hereto shall provide facilities for keeping clothing not worn during working hours and for the drying of wet clothing. Such facilities shall include the provisions of separate rooms, pegs, lockers or other arrangement approved by the Chief Inspector.
SCHEDULE
Engineering Workshop
Chemical Factories
Iron and Steel Works
Motor Garages
Oil Mills
Tanneries.
[Any other factory certified by the Chief Inspector of Factories to be carrying on processes likely to
soil or damage the clothes of the workers if worn while carrying on such processes.]
Shailesh Parikh
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Vadodara
PRABHAT RANJAN MOHANTY
The word 'cloak room' does not happen but employer provides storing facility as per Factories Act & Rule:
In many factories employer provides cabinet facility to workmen where they store and put drying clothing etc, during their shift hours.
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