Training Module for Sanitary WorkerS on Cleaning of SeWerS and SeptiC tankS
Central Public Health and Environmental Engineering Organisation (CPHEEO) (2020)
Published in: 2020
Pages: 40
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• Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act 2013 bans hazardous cleaning of sewer/ septic tanks.
• Definition: Hazardous cleaning by an employee, in relation to a sewer or septic tank, means its manual cleaning by such employee without the employer fulfilling his obligations to provide protective gear and other cleaning devices and ensuring observance of safety precautions, as may be prescribed or provided in any other law, for the time being in force or rules made thereunder.
• Hazardous cleaning exposes employee to incidents like falls/ slips, fire or explosion, oxygen depletion, gas poisoning, heat stress, drowning, in some extreme cases, loss of life as well.
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Central Public Health and Environmental Engineering Organisation (CPHEEO) (2020). Training Module for Sanitary WorkerS on Cleaning of SeWerS and SeptiC tankS. Central Public Health and Environmental Engineering Organisation (CPHEEO)
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