Notices · OSH Code
Inter-State migrant workers: reporting accidents and extending benefits
- Accident, danger or disease
- Employer
- Set by the Code itself; the Central Rules add nothing on this
What to do
If an inter-State migrant worker suffers a fatal accident or serious bodily injury, report it to the specified authorities of both States and to the worker’s next of kin s. 60(ii).
Who it applies to
Every contractor or employer of an establishment employing inter-State migrant workers s. 60, in establishments in which ten or more inter-State migrant workers are employed, or were employed on any day of the preceding twelve months s. 59.
In the checklist: Inter-State migrant workers (OSH Code Chapter XI, Part II).
When
When the accident or injury occurs s. 60(ii).
How
Ensure suitable conditions of work, having regard to the worker working in a State other than their own s. 60(i).
Extend to them every benefit available to the establishment’s workers, including ESI, provident fund and the medical check-up s. 60(iii).