Rule 74. Types of establishments dangerous occupations or prodesses where medical officer shall perform his duties under section 42

(1) Medical officer shall carry out examination and furnish report as State Government may direct,-(a) for examination and certification of workers in an establishment in such dangerous occupation or processes as specified in the First schedule to the Code;

(b) for medical supervision of any establishment or class of establishment where cases of chronic occupational illness have occurred due to arduous nature of any process carried on or hazardous condition of work;

(c) in respect of any establishment or class of establishment or description of establishment in which operations involved in risk of injury to the health of any person or class or persons employed therein;

(d) to undertake occupational health survey for any or class of any establishment, where cases of illness have occurred or there is prevalence of disease as prescribed in Third Schedule to the Code;

(2) The Medical Officer shall, upon demand by the Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator or an Inspector-cum-Facilitator carry out such examination and furnish him with such report as he may indicate, for any factory or class or description of factories where,-

(a) cases of illness have occurred which it is reasonable to believe are due to the nature of the manufacturing process carried on, or other conditions of work prevailing therein; or

(b) by reason of any change in the manufacturing process carried on, or in the substance used therein, or by reasons of the adoption of any new manufacturing process or of any new substance brought into use in a manufacturing process, there is a likelihood of injury to the health of workers employed in that manufacturing process; or

(c) young persons are, or are about to be employed in any work, which is likely to detrimental to their health.

(3) Examination and certification of adolescents shall be done as may be required from time to time.

(4) Following shall be the dangerous operations or hazardous processes for the purposes of medical examination of workers who are engaged with, namely:-(i) operations declared dangerous operations under section 82 of the Code;

(ii) factories carrying on hazardous process as per the First Schedule of the Code;

(iii) treatment of Biomedical waste;

(iv) sewerage treatment;

(v) solid waste management;

(vi) marble cutting;

(vii) ready mix concrete;

(viii) hot mix concrete;

(xi) such other occupation or process, as may be declared by the State/Central Government from time to time, to be dangerous operations.

(5) The Medical Officer may examine the persons employed in processes under sub-rule (3) and shall record the results of his examination in the Health Register in Form-7.

(6) If The Medical Officer finds as a result of his examination that any person employed in such process is no longer fit for medical reasons to work in that process, he shall recommend transfer such person from working in that process to a better environment for such time as he may think fit and no person after such recomondation shall be employed in that process without the written sanction of the Medical Officer in the Health Register.

(7) The manager of a factory shall afford to the Medical Officer facilities to inspect any process in which any person is employed or likely to be employed.

(8) The Medical Officer shall send the report/inspection report to Chief inspector-cum-Facilitator and the Inspector-cum- Facilitator having jurisdiction.

(9) The fee for a certificate or examination under this rule shall be specified by State Government by special or general order and it shall be paid by the employer.