Overcrowding

A factory shall not, while work is carried on, be so overcrowded as to cause risk of injury to the health of the persons employed therein and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions– (a) A factory shall be deemed to be overcrowded as aforesaid, if the number of persons employed at a time in any workroom is such that the amount of cubic space allowed for every person employed in the room is less than 500 cubic feet, provided that, where a room is being used as a workroom at the date of the coming into operation of these Regulations, for the period of two years from that date three hundred cubic feet of space may be allowed for each person employed therein if the Chief Factory Inspector so approves. (b) n calculating for the purposes of this provision, the amount of cubic space in any room, no space Factories 19 more than fourteen feet from the floor shall be taken into account and, where a room contains a gallery, the gallery shall be treated, for the purposes of this provision, as if it were partitioned off from the remainder of the room and formed a separate room.