Section 18 — Occupational safety and health standards.
18(2)
In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the power to declare standards to be followed under sub-section (1), such standards shall relate to—
18(2)(a) physical, chemical, biological and any other hazards to be dealt with for the working life of employee to ensure to the extent feasible on the basis of the best available evidence or functional capacity, that no employee will suffer material impairment of health or functional capacity even if such employee has regular exposure to such hazards;
18(2)(b) the norms—
18(2)(b)(i) appraising the hazards to employees and users to whom such hazards are exposed;
18(2)(b)(ii) relating to relevant symptoms and appropriate energy treatment and proper conditions and precautions of safe use or exposure;
18(2)(b)(iii) for monitoring and measuring exposure of employees to hazards;
18(2)(b)(iv) for medical examination and other tests which shall be made available, by the employer or at his cost, to the employees exposed to hazards; and
18(2)(b)(v) for hazard evaluation procedures like safety audit, hazard and operability study, fault free analysis, event free analysis and such other requirements;
18(2)(c) medical examination including criteria for detection and reporting of occupational diseases to be extended to the employees even after he ceases to be in employment, if he is suffering from an occupational disease which arises out of or in the course of employment;
18(2)(d) such aspects of occupational safety and health relating to workplaces which the Central Government considers necessary on the report of the authority designated by such Government for such purpose;
18(2)(e) such safety and health measures as may be required having regard to the specific conditions prevailing at the workplaces relating to mine, factory, building and other construction work, beedi and cigar, dock work or any other establishments notified; and
18(2)(f) matters specified in the Second Schedule to this Code.