CONDITIONS CODE, 2020

Think of the last time you saw a building site in Navi Mumbai or a factory shed in Taloja: helmets, a canteen, a contractor's gang, a safety officer with a clipboard. Until recently, each of those things sat under a different Act with a different inspector and a different headcount threshold. The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 was written to put them under one roof. So what does the Code actually replace, who does it cover, and how is it meant to be enforced differently?

In two minutes

The OSH Code 2020 is a single statute that consolidates the laws on safety, health and working conditions of persons employed in an establishment, and it reorganises enforcement around the Inspector-cum-Facilitator rather than the old inspector.

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