Health And Safety Legislations: Occupational Health And Safety Legislations
HEALTH AND SAFETY LEGISLATIONS
Occupational health and safety legislations are enforced to regulate the standards of workplace health and safety with the main aim of preventing workplace accidents, injuries and diseases. They also outline consequences for breaches of such standards. They provide, in detail, the responsibilities of employers, supervisors, and of employees. Generally, the legislations require the employer to do everything they can rationally do to protect the health and safety of their workforce in the workplace. This would include providing proper training for dealing with seemingly dangerous equipments and/or materials; providing information to the employees of the potential dangers in the workplace; and setting up safe work practices.
Some of the relevant acts are as follows:
• Factories Act, 1948
This is an Act to consolidate and amend the law regulating labour in factories. It was brought into force on the April 1, 1949 as the Factories Act, 1948 and extends to the whole of India.
This legislation for labour welfare was enacted with the primary objective of protection of the people employed in factories against various industrial and work-related hazards. In keeping up …show more content…
Furthermore, the motivation of proper medical treatment should mitigate the effects of certain recurring accidents. This benefit given to the workmen, in addition to the increased sense of security that would prevail among the workers, would aid in rendering industrial life more attractive and would, thereby, increase the available supply of labour while at the same time there would be equivalent boost in the efficiency of the average workman. Such a system of insurance would prevent the burden from pressing too heavily on any particular
Occupational health and safety legislations are enforced to regulate the standards of workplace health and safety with the main aim of preventing workplace accidents, injuries and diseases. They also outline consequences for breaches of such standards. They provide, in detail, the responsibilities of employers, supervisors, and of employees. Generally, the legislations require the employer to do everything they can rationally do to protect the health and safety of their workforce in the workplace. This would include providing proper training for dealing with seemingly dangerous equipments and/or materials; providing information to the employees of the potential dangers in the workplace; and setting up safe work practices.
Some of the relevant acts are as follows:
• Factories Act, 1948
This is an Act to consolidate and amend the law regulating labour in factories. It was brought into force on the April 1, 1949 as the Factories Act, 1948 and extends to the whole of India.
This legislation for labour welfare was enacted with the primary objective of protection of the people employed in factories against various industrial and work-related hazards. In keeping up …show more content…
Furthermore, the motivation of proper medical treatment should mitigate the effects of certain recurring accidents. This benefit given to the workmen, in addition to the increased sense of security that would prevail among the workers, would aid in rendering industrial life more attractive and would, thereby, increase the available supply of labour while at the same time there would be equivalent boost in the efficiency of the average workman. Such a system of insurance would prevent the burden from pressing too heavily on any particular