THE OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY, HEALTH AND WORKING CONDITIONS CODE

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Chapter I - Preliminary
Section 1 : Short title, commencement and application

Chapter IX - Inspector-Cum-Facilitators and Other Authority
Section 41 : Powers of special officer to enter, measure, etc., in relation to mine

Chapter I - Preliminary
Section 2 : Definitions

Chapter II - Registration
Section 3 : Registration of certain establishments.

Section 4 : Appeal

Section 5 : Notice by employer of commencement and cessation of operation

Chapter III - Duties of employer and employees etc.
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 cases

Section 13 : Duties of employee

Section 14 : Rights of employee

Section 15 : Duty not to interfere with or misuse things

Chapter IV - Occupational Safety and Health
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

Chapter V - Health, safety, and working conditions
Section 23 : Responsibility of employer for maintaining health, safety and working conditions

Chapter VI - Welfare Provisions
Section 24 : Welfare facilities in the establishment, etc

Chapter VII - Hours of Work and Annual Leave with Wages
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.

Chapter VIII - Maintenance of Registers, Records and Returns
Section 33 : Maintenance of registers, records and filing of returns

Chapter IX - Inspector-Cum-Facilitators and Other Authority
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 InspectorcumFacilitator in respect of factory, mines, dock work and building or other construction

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 42 : Medical Officer

chapter X - Special Provision Relating to Employment of Women
Section 43 : Employment of Women

Section 44 : Adequate safety of employment of women in dangerous operation

Chpt XI-Special Provisions for Contract Labour, Inter-State Migrant Worker. Part I-Contract Labour
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