Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020

Bare Act · 2020

In the syllabus of: AIBE · Delhi Higher Judiciary

Act number: 37 of 2020
Enacted: 28 September 2020
Contents: 143 sections · 21 chapters

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Contents

Chapter I — Preliminary

Chapter II — Registration

Chapter III

Section 6 – Duties of employer (preview)
Section 7 – Duties and responsibilities of owner, agent and manager in relation to mine (preview)
Section 8 – Duties of designers, manufacturers, importers or suppliers (preview)
Section 9 – Duties of architect, project engineer and designer (preview)
Section 10 – Notice of certain accident (preview)
Section 11 – Notice of certain dangerous occurrences (preview)
Section 12 – Notice of certain diseases (preview)
Section 13 – Duties of employee (preview)
Section 14 – Rights of employee (preview)
Section 15 – Duty not to interfere with or misuse things (preview)

Chapter IV — Occupational Safety And Health

Section 16 – National Occupational Safety and Health Advisory Board (preview)
Section 17 – State Occupational Safety and Health Advisory Board (preview)
Section 18 – Occupational safety and health standards (preview)
Section 19 – Research related activities (preview)
Section 20 – Safety and occupational health surveys (preview)
Section 21 – Collection of statistics and portal for inter-State migrant workers (preview)
Section 22 – Safety Committee and safety officers (preview)

Chapter V — Health, Safety And Working Conditions

Section 23 – Responsibility of employer for maintaining health, safety and working conditions (preview)

Chapter VI — Welfare Provisions

Section 24 – Welfare facilities in the establishment, etc (preview)

Chapter VII — Hours Of Work And Annual Leave With Wages

Section 25 – Daily and weekly working hours, leave, etc (preview)
Section 26 – Weekly and compensatory holidays (preview)
Section 27 – Extra wages for overtime (preview)
Section 28 – Night shifts (preview)
Section 29 – Prohibition of overlapping shifts (preview)
Section 30 – Restriction on double employment in factory and mine (preview)
Section 31 – Notice of periods of work (preview)
Section 32 – Annual leave with wages, etc (preview)

Chapter VIII — Maintenance Of Registers, Records And Returns

Section 33 – Maintenance of registers, records and filing of returns (preview)

Chapter IX — Inspector-Cum-Facilitators And Other Authority

Chapter X — Special Provision Relating To Employment Of Women

Section 43 – Employment of women (preview)
Section 44 – Adequate safety of employment of women in dangerous operation (preview)

Part I — Contract Labour

Section 45 – Applicability of this Part (preview)
Section 46 – Appointment of designated authority (preview)
Section 47 – Licensing of contractors (preview)
Section 48 – Procedure for issue or renewal of licence (preview)
Section 49 – No fees or commission or any cost to workers (preview)
Section 50 – Information regarding work order to be given to the appropriate Government (preview)
Section 51 – Revocation, suspension and amendment of licence (preview)
Section 52 – Appeal (preview)
Section 53 – Liability of principal employer for welfare facilities (preview)
Section 54 – Effect of employing contract labour from a non-licenced contractor (preview)
Section 55 – Responsibility for payment of wages (preview)
Section 56 – Experience certificate (preview)
Section 57 – Prohibition of employment of contract labour (preview)
Section 58 – Power to exempt in special cases (preview)

Part II — Inter-State Migrant Workers

Section 59 – Applicability of Part II (preview)
Section 60 – Facilities to inter-State migrant workers (preview)
Section 61 – Journey allowance (preview)
Section 62 – Benefits of public distribution system, etc (preview)
Section 63 – Toll free helpline (preview)
Section 64 – Study of inter-State migrant workers (preview)
Section 65 – Past liabilities (preview)

Part III — Audio-Visual Workers

Section 66 – Prohibition of employment of audio-visual worker without agreement (preview)

Part IV — Mines

Section 67 – Managers (preview)
Section 68 – Code not to apply in certain cases (preview)
Section 69 – Exemption from provision regarding employment (preview)
Section 70 – Employment of persons below eighteen years of age (preview)
Section 71 – Exemption to certain persons (preview)
Section 72 – Establishment, maintenance of rescue services and vocational training (preview)
Section 73 – Decision of question whether a mine is covered under this Code (preview)

Part V — Beedi And Cigar Workers

Section 74 – Licence to industrial premises and person (preview)
Section 75 – Appeals (preview)
Section 76 – Permission to work by employees outside industrial premises (preview)
Section 77 – Part not to apply to self-employed persons in private dwelling houses (preview)

Part VI — Building Or Other Construction Workers

Section 78 – Prohibition of employment of certain persons in certain building or other construction work (preview)

Part VII — Factories

Section 79 – Approval and licensing of factories (preview)
Section 80 – Liability of owner of premises in certain circumstances (preview)
Section 81 – Power to apply Code to certain premises (preview)
Section 82 – Dangerous operations (preview)
Section 83 – Constitution of site appraisal committee (preview)
Section 84 – Compulsory disclosure of information by occupier (preview)
Section 85 – Specific responsibility of the occupier in relation to hazardous processes (preview)
Section 86 – National Board to inquire into certain situations (preview)
Section 87 – Emergency standards (preview)
Section 88 – Permissible limits of exposure of chemicals and toxic substances (preview)
Section 89 – Right of workers to warn about imminent danger (preview)
Section 90 – Appeal against the order of Inspector-cum-Facilitator in case of factory (preview)
Section 91 – Power to make rules to exempt (preview)

Part VIII — Plantation

Section 92 – Facilities for workers in plantation (preview)
Section 93 – Safety (preview)

Chapter XII — Offences And Penalties

Chapter XIII — Social Security Fund

Section 115 – Social security fund (preview)

Chapter XIV — Miscellaneous

Section 116 – Delegation of powers (preview)
Section 117 – Onus as to age (preview)
Section 118 – Onus of proving limits of what is practicable, etc (preview)
Section 119 – Common licence for contractor, factories and to industrial premises, etc (preview)
Section 120 – Effect of law and agreements inconsistent with Code (preview)
Section 121 – Power of appropriate Government to direct inquiry in certain cases (preview)
Section 122 – Publication of reports (preview)
Section 123 – Powers of Central Government to give directions (preview)
Section 124 – General restriction on disclosure of information (preview)
Section 125 – Jurisdiction of civil courts barred (preview)
Section 126 – Protection of action taken in good faith (preview)
Section 127 – Power to exempt in special cases (preview)
Section 128 – Power to exempt during public emergency (preview)
Section 129 – Power to exempt public institution (preview)
Section 130 – Persons required to give notice, etc., legally bound to do so (preview)
Section 131 – Power of Central Government to amend Schedule (preview)
Section 132 – Power to remove difficulties (preview)
Section 133 – Power of appropriate Government to make rules (preview)
Section 134 – Power of Central Government to make rules (preview)
Section 135 – Power of State Government to make rules (preview)
Section 136 – Power of Central Government to make regulations in relation to mines and dock work (preview)
Section 137 – Prior publication of rules, etc (preview)
Section 138 – Power to make regulation without previous publication (preview)
Section 139 – Bye-laws (preview)
Section 140 – Powers to regulate general safety and health (preview)
Section 141 – Laying of regulations, rules, byelaws, etc., before Parliament (preview)
Section 142 – Laying of rules made by State Government (preview)
Section 143 – Repeal and Savings (preview)