51. Keeping of cloth not worn during working hour.- Employer of every factory, mine, building or other construction work, industrial premise for manufacture of beedi and cigar, dock work and plantation shall ensure that:-

 

(i) suitable, separate and sufficient installations, as may be necessary owing to the nature of work, for male female, transgender and person with disabilities employees for keeping clothes not worn during working hours and drying them are available;

(ii) these installations are placed in rooms separate from the workrooms;

(iii) a separate changing room is provided with suitable facilities for all male female, transgender and person with disabilities employees, as may be necessary owing to the nature of work, for drying wet clothes and for hanging clothing including, where necessary to avoid contamination with poisonous, infectious, irritating or radioactive substances and are also provided suitable lockers for separating working clothes from street clothes;

(iv) when employees are engaged in processes of such a nature that their working clothes are liable to become wet or have to be washed between shifts, suitable arrangements are made to ensure that dry clothes are always available to each employee on their return to work;

(v) these facilities are to be provided with—

(a) individual lockers of adequate size and with adequate ventilation;

(b) benches or other suitable seating arrangements.