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Under Section 2(1)(w) of the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020, what is the ordinary worker threshold for a factory carrying on a manufacturing process without power?

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Under Section 2(1)(w) of the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020, what is the ordinary worker threshold for a factory carrying on a manufacturing process without power?

  1. 25 workers

  2. 40 workers

  3. 10 workers

  4. 20 workers

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Correct answer: B - 40 workers

Section 2(1)(w) of the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 treats premises as a factory where forty or more workers work, or worked on any day of the preceding twelve months, and a manufacturing process is carried on without the aid of power. Twenty workers is the threshold with power; the Factories Act, 1948 used ten with power and twenty without.

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