Act 37 of 2020

The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020

An Act to consolidate and amend the laws regulating the occupational safety, health and working conditions of the persons employed in an establishment and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

  • Ministry of Labour and Employment
  • Enacted 2020-09-28
  • 143 sections
SectionTitle
1 Short title, commencement and application.Read
2 Definitions.Read
3 Registration of certain establishments.Read
4 Appeal.Read
5 Notice by employer of commencement and cessation of operation.Read
6 Duties of employer.Read
7 Duties and responsibilities of owner, agent and manager in relation to mine.Read
8 Duties of designers, manufacturers, importers or suppliers.Read
9 Duties of architect, project engineer and designer.Read
10 Notice of certain accident.Read
11 Notice of certain dangerous occurrences.Read
12 Notice of certain diseases.Read
13 Duties of employee.Read
14 Rights of employee.Read
15 Duty not to interfere with or misuse things.Read
16 National Occupational Safety and Health Advisory Board.Read
17 State Occupational Safety and Health Advisory Board.Read
18 Occupational safety and health standards.Read
19 Research related activities.Read
20 Safety and occupational health surveys.Read
21 Collection of statistics and portal for inter-State migrant workers.Read
22 Safety Committee and safety officers.Read
23 Responsibility of employer for maintaining health, safety and working conditions.Read
24 Welfare facilities in the establishment, etc.Read
25 Daily and weekly working hours, leave, etc.Read
26 Weekly and compensatory holidays.Read
27 Extra wages for overtime.Read
28 Night shifts.Read
29 Prohibition of overlapping shifts.Read
30 Restriction on double employment in factory and mine.Read
31 Notice of periods of work.Read
32 Annual leave with wages, etc.Read
33 Maintenance of registers, records and filing of returns.Read
34 Appointment of Inspector-cum-Facilitators.Read
35 Powers of Inspector-cum-Facilitators.Read
36 Powers and duties of District Magistrate.Read
37 Third party audit and certification.Read
38 Special powers of Inspector-cum-Facilitator in respect of factory, mines, dock work and building or other construction work.Read
39 Secrecy of information by Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator or Inspector-cum-Facilitator, etc.Read
40 Facilities to be afforded to Inspector-cum-Facilitator.Read
41 Powers of special officer to enter, measure, etc., in relation to mine.Read
42 Medical officer.Read
43 Employment of women.Read
44 Adequate safety of employment of women in dangerous operation.Read
45 Applicability of this Part.Read
46 Appointment of designated authority.Read
47 Licensing of contractors.Read
48 Procedure for issue or renewal of licence.Read
49 No fees or commission or any cost to workers.Read
50 Information regarding work order to be given to the appropriate Government.Read
51 Revocation, suspension and amendment of licence.Read
52 Appeal.Read
53 Liability of principal employer for welfare facilities.Read
54 Effect of employing contract labour from a non-licenced contractor.Read
55 Responsibility for payment of wages.Read
56 Experience certificate.Read
57 Prohibition of employment of contract labour.Read
58 Power to exempt in special cases.Read
59 Applicability of Part II.Read
60 Facilities to inter-State migrant workers.Read
61 Journey allowance.Read
62 Benefits of public distribution system, etc.Read
63 Toll free helpline.Read
64 Study of inter-State migrant workers.Read
65 Past liabilities.Read
66 Prohibition of employment of audio-visual worker without agreement.Read
67 Managers.Read
68 Code not to apply in certain cases.Read
69 Exemption from provision regarding employment.Read
70 Employment of persons below eighteen years of age.Read
71 Exemption to certain persons.Read
72 Establishment, maintenance of rescue services and vocational training.Read
73 Decision of question whether a mine is covered under this Code.Read
74 Licence to industrial premises and person.Read
75 Appeals.Read
76 Permission to work by employees outside industrial premises.Read
77 Part not to apply to self-employed persons in private dwelling houses.Read
78 Prohibition of employment of certain persons in certain building or other construction work..Read
79 Approval and licensing of factories.Read
80 Liability of owner of premises in certain circumstances.Read
81 Power to apply Code to certain premises.Read
82 Dangerous operations.Read
83 Constitution of site appraisal committee.Read
84 Compulsory disclosure of information by occupier.Read
85 Specific responsibility of the occupier in relation to hazardous processes.Read
86 National Board to inquire into certain situations.Read
87 Emergency standards.Read
88 Permissible limits of exposure of chemicals and toxic substances.Read
89 Right of workers to warn about imminent danger.Read
90 Appeal against the order of Inspector-cum-Facilitator in case of factory.Read
91 Power to make rules to exempt.Read
92 Facilities for workers in plantation.Read
93 Safety.Read
94 General penalty for offences.Read
95 Punishment for causing obstruction to Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator or Inspector-cum-Facilitator, etc.Read
96 Penalty for non-maintenance of register, records and non-filing of returns, etc.Read
97 Punishment for contravention of certain provisions.Read
98 Punishment for falsification of records, etc.Read
99 Penalty for omission to furnish plans, etc.Read
100 Punishment for disclosure of information.Read
101 Punishment for wrongfully disclosing results of analysis.Read
102 Punishment for contravention of provisions of duties relating to hazardous processes.Read
103 Punishment for contravention of provisions of duties relating to safety provisions resulting in an accident.Read
104 Special provision for contravention of order under section 38.Read
105 Failure to appoint manager in mine.Read
106 Offences by employees.Read
107 Prosecution of owner, agent or manager of mine.Read
108 Exemption of owner, agent or manager of mine or occupier of factory from liability in certain cases.Read
109 Offences by companies, etc.Read
110 Limitation of prosecution and cognizance of offences.Read
111 Power of officers of appropriate Government to impose penalty in certain cases.Read
112 Jurisdiction of court for entertaining proceedings, etc., for offence.Read
113 Power of court to make orders.Read
114 Composition of certain offences.Read
115 Social security fund.Read
116 Delegation of powers.Read
117 Onus as to age.Read
118 Onus of proving limits of what is practicable, etc.Read
119 Common licence for contractor, factories and to industrial premises, etc.Read
120 Effect of law and agreements inconsistent with Code.Read
121 Power of appropriate Government to direct inquiry in certain cases.Read
122 Publication of reports.Read
123 Powers of Central Government to give directions.Read
124 General restriction on disclosure of information.Read
125 Jurisdiction of civil courts barred.Read
126 Protection of action taken in good faith.Read
127 Power to exempt in special cases.Read
128 Power to exempt during public emergency.Read
129 Power to exempt public institution.Read
130 Persons required to give notice, etc., legally bound to do so.Read
131 Power of Central Government to amend Schedule.Read
132 Power to remove difficulties.Read
133 Power of appropriate Government to make rules.Read
134 Power of Central Government to make rules.Read
135 Power of State Government to make rules.Read
136 Power of Central Government to make regulations in relation to mines and dock work.Read
137 Prior publication of rules, etc.Read
138 Power to make regulation without previous publication.Read
139 Bye-laws.Read
140 Powers to regulate general safety and health.Read
141 Laying of regulations, rules, bye-laws, etc., before Parliament.Read
142 Laying of rules made by State Government.Read
143 Repeal and Savings.Read
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