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WORKPLACE SAFETY IN
INDIA
 Workplace injuries
1600

1400

1200

1000

800

600

400

200

0
y1997 y1998 y1999 y2000 y2001 y2002 y2003 y2004 y2005 y2006
 ILO
‡ 13 CONVENTIONS
- 2 Ratified b India
‡ 155-national polic
‡ 161-Occupational diseases
‡ 174-hazardous diseases
‡ 176-prevention
 Constitution
Articles
24-child labour
39-health of workers
42-humane conditions

Labour ±state & central

subjects
 Ëinistr of labour
‡ Prepares drafts of bills
‡ Liaisons with ILO and countries
‡ State ministerial and secreterial
conferences
‡ Implements through DGFASLI & DGËS
 DGFASLI
‡ Institutes awards
‡ Trains factor inspectors
‡ Conducts conferences,seminars,surve s
‡ General awareness b ads,visual aids etc.
DGËS ±mines
CLC-construction workers act
 Factories act,1948

‡ Premier legislation
‡ Safet is Welfare
‡ Protection against
-chemicals
-occupational diseases
-ph sical hazards
 provisions
‡ SAFETY OFFICERS
‡ Emplo ee in safet management
‡ Protects emplo ees from imminent danger
‡ Avoid working on moving parts
‡ Protection of e es
‡ Right of workers to warn about dangers
 Other laws
m ËINES ACT
-coal,metal,oil
-Ëines rescues act,1985
-Ëines Vocational training act,1966
‡ Dock workers (welfare,health&safet ) act
‡ Shops and establishment act
‡ Building construction and other emplo ees
act
 Laws contd«
‡ Insecticides act
‡ Dangerous machines act
‡ Beedi and cigar workers(conditions of
emplo ment) act
 Bottlenecks
‡ No Apex Bod on Occupational Safet &Health
‡ Lack of Enforcement Strategies
‡ Lack of uniformit in laws
‡ Lack of general legislation on OSH
‡ Changing scenario in technolog
‡ Inadequate training to enforcers
 IËPORTANCE
. "Injur and disease are not 'all in a da 's work'",.
"Fatalities, accidents and illness at work can be
prevented. We must promote a new 'safet
culture' in the workplace - wherever work is done
- backed b appropriate national policies and
programmes to make workplaces safer and
healthier for us all."
- ILO Director-General Juan Somavia