Health And Safety India Case Study

Legislation provision for health and safety in India:
In the Constitution of India it is mentioned about the health and safety management of the workers, which directs the Government to form policies but there is least follow up of the Government policies. These policies are formed so as to give strengthen the workers at the working site, so that they are not abused and exploited. Some sections enforce for the humane working conditions as well as maternal relief. But many of the workers and people at work stations faces serious health and safety issues like high mortality rates, gender imbalance, violence, accidents, communicable and non communicable diseases; malnutrition, poor working conditions, lack of clean potable water are some other
Health and safety laws for regulation of Occupational Safety and health management exists for four different sectors of working in India, they are as follows: construction, mining, working on ports and manufacturing industries. The norms made for the industries are applicable in minute forms and in fragmented manner, the regulation have a limited scope of applicability for the objectives and cover to limited extent. The major legal provisions in India which are working for the health and risk management are “factories act” and “mines act”. The factories act works for the health and safety of the workers as well as the welfare of the workers on the factories and construction sites. This act is only applicable for the power consuming factories having a work force of more than 10 workers and non power consuming factories having a work force of more than 20 workers. In the year 1987 after the Bhopal Gas Tragedy this law was amended and a new chapter of Hazardous industry is introduced. Some other legal regulation for the management of health and safety at workplaces are: Dock Workers, Building and construction workers, child labor, insecticides act, mines act and
These are controlled values and are not lawfully obligatory. These principles have global approval and are well-liked in the intercontinental market. For folks who mean to do worldwide business, i.e. export, ISO is a face-lift. The companies undergo, swollen with pride once they get an ISO credential. ISO has improved the health and safety to some extent. In the New Economic Policy, FDI have started flowing into India. The Multinationals brought with them an ethnicity of improved wellbeing and security values at occupation, as also their experience and proficiency. Some of them have also helped the units behind the line in their contribution to achieve better standard. This might have helped reducing the deadly accident at workplaces in industrialized sector, which are registered under the Factory Act. This can be confirmed by the statistics we have of Gujarat state for last 8 years. These information have to be seen in the background of amplify in the number of factories and the number of personnel working. As claimed by the State Government, the number of factories has risen by 37.5%, while number of non-deadly accidents has been reduced by 60%. This is the only accomplishment of any implication in the last 10 years. On the other hand, this declaration of non-deadly accidents is doubted, in view of the fact that there