Section 23 — Responsibility of employer for maintaining health, safety and working conditions.
23(2)
Without prejudice to the generality of the power conferred under sub-section (1), the Central Government may prescribe for providing all or any of the following matters in the establishment or class of establishments, namely:—
23(2)(i) cleanliness and hygiene;
23(2)(ii) ventilation, temperature and humidity;
23(2)(iii) environment free from dust, noxious gas, fumes and other impurities;
23(2)(iv) adequate standard of humidification, artificially increasing the humidity of the air, ventilation and cooling of the air in work rooms;
23(2)(v) potable drinking water;
23(2)(vi) adequate standards to prevent overcrowding and to provide sufficient space to employees or other persons, as the case may be, employed therein;
23(2)(vii) adequate lighting;
23(2)(viii) sufficient arrangement for latrine and urinal accommodation to male, female and transgender employee separately and maintaining hygiene therein;
23(2)(ix) effective arrangements for treatment of wastes and effluents; and
23(2)(x) any other arrangement which the Central Government considers appropriate.