(1) Hygiene and safety conditions at the workplace
shall be determined by orders of the Minister in charge of labour,
issued after consultation with the National Commission on
Industrial Hygiene and Safety.
(2) The said orders, while taking local conditions and
contingencies into account, shall aim at securing for the workers
standards of hygiene and safety conforming with those
recommended by the international Labour Organization and other
Internationally recognized technical bodies.
(3) They shall specify the cases and circumstances in which
Labour Inspectors or the occupational Health Doctors shall have
recourse to the procedure of serving formal notice on the
employer. However, where there is an impending threat to the
health and safety of workers, the Labour Inspector or the
occupational Health Doctor shall order immediately enforceable
measures to be taken.
Official text
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In force from 14 August 1992
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