The employer's and the employee's duties, reporting danger and accidents, welfare facilities and when they are needed, and women's working hours.
Written from the official text · not reviewed by a lawyer · follows the Central Rules
Key points
Every employer must keep the workplace free from hazards that cause or are likely to cause injury or occupational disease OSH s. 6(1)(a), and provide a free annual health examination or test to the employees the appropriate Government prescribes s. 6(1)(c).
Every employee must take reasonable care for their own health and safety and that of others affected by their acts or omissions, and comply with the safety and health standards s. 13(a)–(b).
An employee who reasonably fears imminent serious injury, death or danger to health may tell the employer, directly or through the Safety Committee, and at the same time the Inspector-cum-Facilitator s. 14(2).
The employer must give notice of an accident that causes death, or an injury that keeps the person from working for forty-eight hours or more s. 10(1).
Welfare facilities include separate washing facilities, separate bathing places and locker rooms for male, female and transgender employees, and first-aid boxes s. 24(1).
A canteen is needed where one hundred or more workers, including contract labourers, are ordinarily employed s. 24(1)(v).
An ambulance room may be required in a factory, mine or building work with more than five hundred workers, and shelters, rest rooms and a lunch room in a factory or mine with more than fifty s. 24(2)(i), (iii).
A factory, mine or plantation where two hundred and fifty or more workers are ordinarily employed may be required to appoint a welfare officer s. 24(2)(iv).
Safety officers are appointed in a factory with five hundred workers or more, a factory with a hazardous process or building work with two hundred fifty or more, and a mine with one hundred or more s. 22(2).
Women may be employed in all establishments for all types of work, and with their consent before 6 a.m. and beyond 7 p.m., subject to the conditions the appropriate Government prescribes s. 43.
If you are an employer
Use the checklist to see which welfare facilities and safety posts your headcount brings in s. 24s. 22(2).
If you are a worker
You have the right to get information from your employer about your health and safety at work s. 14(1).
8 questions. Choose an answer, then open “Show the answer” to check it against the law's own words.
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Answer: One hundred or more
A canteen is needed in an establishment where one hundred or more workers, including contract labourers, are ordinarily employed s. 24(1)(v).
facilities of canteen in an establishment for employees thereof, wherein one hundred or more workers including contract labourers are ordinarily employed
The law's words: OSH Code, s. 24 — Welfare facilities in the establishment, etc
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Answer: More than five hundred
The Central Government may prescribe an ambulance room in every factory, mine or building work where more than five hundred workers are ordinarily employed s. 24(2)(i).
ambulance room in every factory, mine, building or other construction work wherein more than five hundred workers are ordinarily employed
The law's words: OSH Code, s. 24 — Welfare facilities in the establishment, etc
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Answer: Their employer, and at the same time the Inspector-cum-Facilitator
The employee may tell the employer, directly or through the Safety Committee, and at the same time bring it to the notice of the Inspector-cum-Facilitator s. 14(2).
he may bring the same to the notice of his employer directly or through a member of the Safety Committee referred to in sub-section (1) and simultaneously bring the same to the notice of the Inspector-cum-Facilitator.
Notice is given of an accident causing death, or an injury that prevents the person from working for forty-eight hours or more s. 10(1).
which causes any bodily injury by reason of which the person injured is prevented from working for a period of forty-eight hours or more immediately following the accident
The law's words: OSH Code, s. 10 — Notice of certain accident
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Answer: Yes, with their consent and on the conditions the appropriate Government prescribes
Women may be employed, with their consent, before 6 a.m. and beyond 7 p.m., subject to the conditions on safety, holidays and working hours the appropriate Government prescribes s. 43.
they may also be employed, with their consent before 6 a.m. and beyond 7 p.m. subject to such conditions relating to safety, holidays and working hours
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