Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020

The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020

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Act ID:	2020-37
Act Number:	37
Enactment Date:	2020-09-28
Act Year:	2020
Short Title:	The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020
Long Title:	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:	Ministry of Labour and Employment
Enforcement Date:	21-11-2025

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