Rule 163. Use and handling of hazardous chemicals, insecticides, pesticides and toxic substances in the plantation under sub-section (2) of section 93

Chapter IX — Special Provisions for Contract Labour Inter-state Migrant Workers, Audio- Visual Workers and Beedi and Cigar WorkersPart VI — PlantationMade under The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020Notification No. 962/XXXVI-03-2026-1903305, 27 Aug 2026

Official text

(1) No adolescent worker shall be engaged in any activity or work where, they are likely to be exposed to the use, handling, storage and transportation of hazardous chemicals, insecticides, pesticides, hazardous substances and other toxic substances:
Provided that women workers may be employed with their consent to work subject to the following conditions :-(a) International Safety standards shall be adopted by the occupier for providing Occupational Safety and Health (OSH).
(b) The occupier shall, as far as possible, modernise the above processes/places from time to time and will use modern equipments.
(c) Women workers those are feeding mother shall be exempted from the Employment.
(2) The employer shall ensure the regular health checkup of all women and adolescent worker engaged in any activity or work of plantation as prescribed under Rule-75 and shall keep the records as mentioned in Rule-75 of these rules.

Source: The Uttar Pradesh Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Rules, 2026, Notification No. 962/XXXVI-03-2026-1903305 — Uttar Pradesh Gazette Extraordinary, 27 August 2026, p. 356 of the PDF. Open our copy at p. 356 · official download · all sources

The rules were made in Hindi. The English text is the translation published by order of the Governor under clause (3) of Article 348 of the Constitution, which makes it the authoritative text in English. Rule headings are printed as marginal notes.