Schedule II

Appointment of Safety Officers and their duties and conditions of service

1. Number of Safety Officers: Within six months of coming into operation of these rules, every

establishment employing more than two hundred and fifty building workers and every other

employer who is carrying out hazardous processes as laid down in Schedule-I, shall appoint safety

officers, as laid down in the scale given below:

1. Up to 250 building workers employed - one safety officer

2. Up to 500 building workers employed - two safety officers

3. Upto 750 building workers employed - three safety officers

4. Up to 1000 building workers employed - four safety officers

5. For every additional 500 building workers or part thereof, one safety officer.

For establishment carrying out hazardous processes are carried out with fifty or more workers

employed therein, one safety officer shall be appointed by the employer.

Any appointment, when made shall be notified to the Inspector-cum-facilitator having

jurisdiction in the area, giving full details of the qualifications, terms and conditions of service of

such safely officer.

2. Conditions of Service:

(a) Where number of safety officers appointed exceeds one. one of them shallbe designated as

Chief Safety Officer and shall have the status higher than the others. The Chief Safety Officer

shall be in overall charge of the safety functions as envisaged in these rules and also other

safety officers working under his control.

(b) Chief Safety Officer or Safety Officer, where only one safety officer is appointed, shall be given

the status of a Senior Executive and he shall work directly under the control of his Chief

Executive. All other safety officers shall be given appropriate status to enable them to dispatch

their functions effectively.

(c) Scale of pay and allowances to be granted to the Safety Officers including the Chief Safety

Officer and the other conditions of their service shall be the same as those of the officers

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of corresponding status of the establishment in which they are employed.

3. Facilities to be provided to safety officers. - The employer shall provide each safety officer

with such facilities, equipment and information that are necessary to enable him to dispatch his

duties effectively.

4. Prohibition of performance of other duties. -

No safety officer shall be required or permitted to do any work which is unconnected to,

inconsistent with or detrimental to the performance of the duties prescribed in this Schedule.