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.
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If you are that wary, then please don't provide tablets at all. There is no need to obtain any indemnity undertaking. Even if you are providing the tablets and even after such an undertaking, you still bear responsibility for the medicines administered, at least morally and ethically, even if you may avoid it legally.
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The factory is expected to have first aid boxes with certain medicines as laid out in the Act/rules. There is no point in keeping other medicines. Undertaking this will worsen the matter as it implies that knowingly, other medicines that may require a doctor's prescription are being kept, risking being passed to workers. Please stick to the list given in the Factories Act if your establishment is a factory.
From India, Pune
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From India, Pune
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Dear Nathrao Can you provide list of medicines to be kept in first aid box? Thanking you
From India, Mumbai
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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.
From India, Pune
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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.
From India, Pune
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Oh, it looks barbaric... How do people get all these below-standard ideas? Medicines should be given only by a qualified doctor.
When it comes to ointments used on the skin, they should be treated like small injuries - taken and applied from the first aid box.
For any fever-like diseases, a doctor's care is essential. Injections and internal medicines should only be used under the observation of an authorized MBBS doctor. No experiments on your employees, please.
Self-medication is always prohibited, sir.
From India, Nellore
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When it comes to ointments used on the skin, they should be treated like small injuries - taken and applied from the first aid box.
For any fever-like diseases, a doctor's care is essential. Injections and internal medicines should only be used under the observation of an authorized MBBS doctor. No experiments on your employees, please.
Self-medication is always prohibited, sir.
From India, Nellore
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