Contents of the OSH Rules (Uttar Pradesh)

The Uttar Pradesh Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Rules, 2026

Rule 77. Adequate safeguards for employment of women hazardous process or in dangerous operations under section 44

Chapter VIII — Special Provisions Relating to Employment of WomenMade under The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020Notification No. 962/XXXVI-03-2026-1903305, 27 Aug 2026

Official text

(1) Women workers may be employed in hazardous and dangerous operations with their consent.

(2) Women workers who are feeding mothers or pregnant shall be exempted from employment in hazardous and dangerous operations.

(3) All the measures as mentioned in the Code relating to hazardous process and dangerous operations shall be complied with by the occupier or employer, as the case may be.

(4) Women shall be well trained on their job and they shall be rendered knowledge about the hazardous properties of the substances being handled, stored or manufactured at their workplace and measures to overcome with the same.

(5) Women employed in hazardous process or dangerous operations shall be provided all the necessary personal protective appliances at the workplace, they are deployed.

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. 318 of the PDF. Open our copy at p. 318 · 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.