Contents of the OSH Rules (Gujarat)

The Gujarat Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Rules, 2025

Schedule I

Chapter III — Duties of Employer and Employees, Etc.Printed after rule 11Made under The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020No. GHR/2025/76/FAC/142021/68396/M3, 6 Jun 2025

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The following classes of dangerous occurrences, whether or not they are attended by personal injur.

disablement namely: -

(i) Bursting of any plant or pipeline or equipment used for containing petroleum, steam, compres

air or other substance at a pressure greater than the atmospheric pressure.

(ii) Collapse or failure of a crane, derrick, winch, hoist or other appliances used in raising or lower

persons or goods, or any part thereof, or the overturning of a crane.

(iii) Explosion, explosion due to explosives, fire leakage or release of harmful toxic gases, bursting (

Leakage, or escape of any molten metal. or hot liquor or gas causes bodily injury to any person

damage to any room or place in which persons are employed or fire in rooms of cotton press.

factories, where a cotton opener is in use.

(iv) Explosion of areceiver or,container used for the storage at a pressure greater than atmosphe

pressure of any gas or gasses including air or any liquid or solid resulting from the compress

of gas.

(V) Collapse or subsidence of any floor, gallery, roof, bridge, tunnel,chimney, wall. building or a

structure.

(vi) Spillage or leakage of hazardous substances and damage to their container.

(vii) à major uncontrolled emission of petroleum or chemical spillage.

(B) For building or other construction work

(1) Where at any place in an establishment which is building or other construction work, an accide

occurs which results in the death of any person, the employer of the establishment shall forthwi

send a notice thereof in Form-7 electronically annexed to these rules and inform within 12 hours

accident (not in the central rules) by telephone or e-mail or by any other manner to the Inspectc

cum-Facilitator and Sub-divisional Officer, the officer-in-charge of the nearest police station and ti

family members /kin of the injured or deceased person.

(2) Where at any place in an establishment which is building or other construction work an accide

occurs which results in bodily injury by reason of which the person injured is prevented fro

working for a period of forty-eight hours or more immediately following the accident,the employ

of the establishment shall forthwith send a notice in Form-7 electronically annexed to these rule

within tivelve hours after the completion of forty-eight hours, 1o the Inspector-cum-Facilitator.

(3) Where in an establishment there isany dangerous occurrence as specified in the Schedule-Il,

whether causing any bodily injury or disability or not, a notice in Form-7 electronically annexed to

these rules, shall within twelve hours be sent to:

(a) The Inspector-cum-facilitator;

(b) District Magistrate or Sub-Divisional Officer:

Provided that if in the case of an accident or dangerous occurrence, death occurs to

any person injured by such accident or dangerous occurrence after the notices and reports referred

to in the sub-rules (1) and (2) of rule 11 (B) have been sonı, the employer (or contractor only in the

case of any building or other construction work for any government dephrtment) of the establishment

shall forthwith send a notice thereof by telephone and electronically or by special messenger to the

authorities and persons mentioned in sub-rules (1) and (2) of rule 11 (B) and also have this

information confirmed in writing within 12 hours of the death.

Provided further that, if the period of disability from working for 48 hours or more referred

to in sub-rule (2) of rule 11 (B) does not occur immediately following the accident, or the dangerous

occurrence, but later, or occurs in more than onc spell, the report referred to shall be sent to the

Inspector-cum-Facilitator in the prescribed form within 24 Hours following the hours when the

actual total period of disability from working resulting from the accident or the dangerous occurrence

becomes 48 hours.

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