The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020
Act No. 37 of 2020 · As on 28th November, 2025
Chapter I — PRELIMINARY
Chapter II — REGISTRATION
Chapter III — DUTIES OF EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEES, ETC.
- 6. Duties of employer.
- 7. Duties and responsibilities of owner, agent and manager in relation to mine.
- 8. Duties of designers, manufacturers, importers or suppliers.
- 9. Duties of architect, project engineer and designer.
- 10. Notice of certain accident.
- 11. Notice of certain dangerous occurrences.
- 12. Notice of certain diseases.
- 13. Duties of employee.
- 14. Rights of employee.
- 15. Duty not to interfere with or misuse things.
Chapter IV — OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH
- 16. National Occupational Safety and Health Advisory Board.
- 17. State Occupational Safety and Health Advisory Board.
- 18. Occupational safety and health standards.
- 19. Research related activities.
- 20. Safety and occupational health surveys.
- 21. Collection of statistics and portal for inter-State migrant workers.
- 22. Safety Committee and safety officers.
Chapter V — HEALTH, SAFETY AND WORKING CONDITIONS
Chapter VI — WELFARE PROVISIONS
Chapter VII — HOURS OF WORK AND ANNUAL LEAVE WITH WAGES
Chapter VIII — MAINTENANCE OF REGISTERS, RECORDS AND RETURNS
Chapter IX — INSPECTOR-CUM-FACILITATORS AND OTHER AUTHORITY
- 34. Appointment of Inspector-cum-Facilitators.
- 35. Powers of Inspector-cum-Facilitators.
- 36. Powers and duties of District Magistrate.
- 37. Third party audit and certification.
- 38. Special powers of Inspector-cum-Facilitator in respect of factory, mines, dock work and building or other construction work.
- 39. Secrecy of information by Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator or Inspector-cum-Facilitator, etc.
- 40. Facilities to be afforded to Inspector-cum-Facilitator.
- 41. Powers of special officer to enter, measure, etc., in relation to mine.
- 42. Medical officer.
Chapter X — SPECIAL PROVISION RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN
Chapter XI — SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR CONTRACT LABOUR AND INTER-STATE MIGRANT WORKER, ETC.
PART I — CONTRACT LABOUR
- 45. Applicability of this Part.
- 46. Appointment of designated authority.
- 47. Licensing of contractors.
- 48. Procedure for issue or renewal of licence.
- 49. No fees or commission or any cost to workers.
- 50. Information regarding work order to be given to the appropriate Government.
- 51. Revocation, suspension and amendment of licence.
- 52. Appeal.
- 53. Liability of principal employer for welfare facilities.
- 54. Effect of employing contract labour from a non-licenced contractor.
- 55. Responsibility for payment of wages.
- 56. Experience certificate.
- 57. Prohibition of employment of contract labour.
- 58. Power to exempt in special cases.
PART II — INTER-STATE MIGRANT WORKERS
PART III — AUDIO-VISUAL WORKERS
PART IV — MINES
- 67. Managers.
- 68. Code not to apply in certain cases.
- 69. Exemption from provision regarding employment.
- 70. Employment of persons below eighteen years of age.
- 71. Exemption to certain persons.
- 72. Establishment, maintenance of rescue services and vocational training.
- 73. Decision of question whether a mine is covered under this Code.
PART V — BEEDI AND CIGAR WORKERS
PART VI — BUILDING OR OTHER CONSTRUCTION WORKERS
PART VII — FACTORIES
- 79. Approval and licensing of factories.
- 80. Liability of owner of premises in certain circumstances.
- 81. Power to apply Code to certain premises.
- 82. Dangerous operations.
- 83. Constitution of site appraisal committee.
- 84. Compulsory disclosure of information by occupier.
- 85. Specific responsibility of the occupier in relation to hazardous processes.
- 86. National Board to inquire into certain situations.
- 87. Emergency standards.
- 88. Permissible limits of exposure of chemicals and toxic substances.
- 89. Right of workers to warn about imminent danger.
- 90. Appeal against the order of Inspector-cum-Facilitator in case of factory.
- 91. Power to make rules to exempt.
PART VIII — PLANTATION
Chapter XII — OFFENCES AND PENALTIES
- 94. General penalty for offences.
- 95. Punishment for causing obstruction to Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator or Inspector-cum-Facilitator, etc.
- 96. Penalty for non-maintenance of register, records and non-filing of returns, etc.
- 97. Punishment for contravention of certain provisions.
- 98. Punishment for falsification of records, etc.
- 99. Penalty for omission to furnish plans, etc.
- 100. Punishment for disclosure of information.
- 101. Punishment for wrongfully disclosing results of analysis.
- 102. Punishment for contravention of provisions of duties relating to hazardous processes.
- 103. Punishment for contravention of provisions of duties relating to safety provisions resulting in an accident.
- 104. Special provision for contravention of order under section 38.
- 105. Failure to appoint manager in mine.
- 106. Offences by employees.
- 107. Prosecution of owner, agent or manager of mine.
- 108. Exemption of owner, agent or manager of mine or occupier of factory from liability in certain cases.
- 109. Offences by companies, etc.
- 110. Limitation of prosecution and cognizance of offences.
- 111. Power of officers of appropriate Government to impose penalty in certain cases.
- 112. Jurisdiction of court for entertaining proceedings, etc., for offence.
- 113. Power of court to make orders.
- 114. Composition of certain offences.
Chapter XIII — SOCIAL SECURITY FUND
Chapter XIV — MISCELLANEOUS
- 116. Delegation of powers.
- 117. Onus as to age.
- 118. Onus of proving limits of what is practicable, etc.
- 119. Common licence for contractor, factories and to industrial premises, etc.
- 120. Effect of law and agreements inconsistent with Code.
- 121. Power of appropriate Government to direct inquiry in certain cases.
- 122. Publication of reports.
- 123. Powers of Central Government to give directions.
- 124. General restriction on disclosure of information.
- 125. Jurisdiction of civil courts barred.
- 126. Protection of action taken in good faith.
- 127. Power to exempt in special cases.
- 128. Power to exempt during public emergency.
- 129. Power to exempt public institution.
- 130. Persons required to give notice, etc., legally bound to do so.
- 131. Power of Central Government to amend Schedule.
- 132. Power to remove difficulties.
- 133. Power of appropriate Government to make rules.
- 134. Power of Central Government to make rules.
- 135. Power of State Government to make rules.
- 136. Power of Central Government to make regulations in relation to mines and dock work.
- 137. Prior publication of rules, etc.
- 138. Power to make regulation without previous publication.
- 139. Bye-laws.
- 140. Powers to regulate general safety and health.
- 141. Laying of regulations, rules, bye-laws, etc., before Parliament.
- 142. Laying of rules made by State Government.
- 143. Repeal and Savings.
Schedules
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