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
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.