A textile mill employs 600 workers. Under the Factories Act 1948, which facility is the management legally obliged to provide that would NOT have been obligatory at 400 workers?

• A Creche
• B Shelter and lunch room
• C Safety Officer
• D Ambulance room ✓

Explanation

An ambulance room with a nursing staff and available medical practitioner is mandatory where more than 500 workers are employed (Section 45). At 400 workers a shelter and lunch room is already required (above 150), a creche is required above 30 women workers, and a Safety Officer is required above 1000 workers, so none of these changes between 400 and 600 workers.

Reference: Park's Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine, 27th ed.

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