(1) The following facilities shall be provided in work-sheds and other places where prisoners work,-
(a) Protection from heat, cold, rain, dust, smoke, fumes, gases and chemicals;
(b) Protection from seepage and dampness;
(c) Safe drinking water;
(d) Spittoons, urinals and latrines;
(e) Washing and bathing facilities;
(f) First-aid facilities;
(g) Fire extinguisher and other firefighting equipment;
(h) Sufficient ventilation and lighting; and
(i) Safety equipment and accident prevention measures.
Note: The standards adopted in outside factories in this respect should be adopted in prison factories. These should be fixed in consultation with the Manager of Factories;
(2) Periodical medical examination of prisoners, working in production units having hazards of occupational diseases, shall be carried out.
(3) Compensation shall be made to prisoners who meet with serious injury or death.
(4) Hours of work for each group of prisoners shall be prescribed in accordance with the programme content of each institution, but total hours of work should not exceed eight hours in a day.
(5) Technical personnel or Task taker in-charge of the production unit, if any shall measure the work done by the prisoner, at the same time carefully noting it in the task ticket Form of concerned prisoners and this ticket shall also be maintained in a computerized format in the Prison Management System.
(6) Prisoners sentenced to rigorous imprisonment or other prisoners who are willing to work, shall not work for more than eight hours daily, except on an emergency and by the written order of the Superintendent entered in his or her order book and the prisoner’s history ticket.
(7) The timing of the work shift shall be decided by the Superintendent depending on the climate and except for urgent requirement, the convict shall not be kept to labour on Sundays or on declared holidays.
(8) Each prisoner shall get one day’s rest in a week from the work programmes.
(9) If the Medical Officer finds that a prisoner is suffering from a contagious and infectious disease, then he or she shall immediately make arrangements to quarantine him or her and the prisoner shall not be asked to do any work till he or she recovers completely.
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(10) The prisons which have canteen in their premises shall provide the prisoners with a coupon in lieu of cash of such amount as decided by the Inspector General of Prisons from time to time.
(11) Prison Officers are permitted at the discretion of the Superintendent to have small articles made or petty jobs done in the prison workshops at actual cost price, provided that such articles or jobs are bonafide for the personal wants of such officer and that previous sanction of the Superintendent has been obtained in writing.
(12) The employment of prisoners as clerks in prison offices shall be strictly forbidden, but the Superintendent may, when there is special necessity for it, sanction the employment of an educated prisoner in the clerical work which have no connection with the prison office.
(13) No authorized work shall be done either in or out of the prison production centre and no jobs either of manufacture or repair shall be put in hand until the order for its execution has been duly entered in the Jailor’s Report-Book or in the Superintendent’s Order book or in any special book kept for such purpose, under the initial of the Jailor or other officer deputed to be in charge of the production centre or in the case of repairs to the prisoner’s clothes, until the order of the Jailor has been recorded in the history ticket of such prisoner.