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Bare acts > Punjab Motor Transport Workers Rules, 1963 > Rule 17
 
  


 

17. Canteens. Rule prescribed under Section 8, read with Section 40(2)(o). - (1) The employer of every undertaking shall provide for the use of the motor transport workers at every place wherein one hundred motor transport workers or more ordinarily call on duty, during every day, an adequate canteen in or near the place wherein the undertaking is situated according to the standards prescribed in this rule.

(2) The employer shall submit for the approval of the Chief Inspector plans and site plan in duplicate of the building to be constructed or adopted for use as a canteen.

(3) The canteen building shall be situated not less than 15 meters from any latrine, urinal or any other source of dust, smoke, or obnoxious fumes:

Provided that the Chief Inspector may in any particular case relax the provision of this sub-rule to such extent as may be reasonable in the circumstances and may require measures to be adopted to secure the essential purpose of this sub-rule.

(4) The canteen building shall be constructed in accordance with the plans approved by the Chief Inspector and shall accommodate at least a dining hall, kitchen, store room, pantry and washing places, separately, for workers and for utensils.

(5) In a canteen, the floor and inside walls up to a height of 1.2 meters from the floor shall be made of smooth and impervious material; the remaining portion of the inside walls shall be made smooth by the cement plaster or in any other manner approved by the Chief Inspector.

(6) The doors and windows of a canteen-building hall be of fly proof construction and shall allow adequate ventilation.


(7) The canteen shall be sufficiently lighted at all times when any person has across to it.


(8) (a) in every canteen:


(i) all inside walls of rooms and all ceiling, passages and stare cases shall be lime washed colour washed or painted, as the case may be and shall also be disinfected Lime washing or colour washing shall be carried out once in every year, painting once in every three years and disinfecting open in six months;


(ii) all wood-work shall be varnished or painted once in every three years; and


(iii) all internal structural iron or steel work shall be varnished or painted once in every three years: Provided that inside walls of the kitchen shall be lime washed once in every four months.

(b) Record on dates on which lime washing, colour washing, varnishing, painting or disinfecting as the case may be, is carried out shall be maintained on a register in Form No. IV.

(c) The precincts of the canteen shall be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition. Waste water shall be carried away in suitable covered drains and shall not be allowed to accumulate so as to cause a nuisance. Suitable arrangements shall be made for the collection and disposal of garbage.

 

 

 

 

 

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