Indian Health and Safety Legislation: Safety Officer Requirement.

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Industrial Health and Safety blogs. What are the Indian Health and Safety Legislation Requirement for  "Safety Officer"  in different states? Ans: Section 40-B. Safety Officers According to The Factories Act 1948 In every factory :- wherein  one thousand(1000) or more workers are ordinarily employed , or wherein, in the  opinion of the State Government , any manufacturing process or operation is carried on, which  process or operation involves any risk of bodily injury ,  poisoning or disease or any other hazard to health, to the person employed in the factory , the occupier shall, if so required by the State Government by notification in Official Gazette, employ such number of Safety Officers as may be specified in that notification. UTTAR PRADESH FACTORY RULES 1950 and Uttar Pradesh Factories (Safety Officers) Rules, 1984 THE TAMILNADU FACTORIES RULES, 1950, The Tamil Nadu Safety Officers (Duties, Qualifications and Condi
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What is the relation between incident reporting and The Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No.155)? Which Recommendation supplementing OSH Convention 1981 requirements? What is the role of International labor organisation?

What is the relation between incident reporting and The Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No.155)? Which Recommendation supplementing OSH Convention 1981 requirements? What is the role of International labor organisation?


Health and safety is a global concern and it requires global support for improvement. So in continuation of same International labor Organsiation (ILO) put pressure globally on its members for improvement of health and safety. So they developed with the help of their tripartite members “The Occupational safety and health convention, 1981 (No.155)” to improve health and safety standards.
ILO, being tripartite (Mix of government, Trade union and Organisations) working under United Nation has force to provide the desired improvement in the field of Health and Safety. The main function of ILO is to provide conventions and recommendations related to human rights including health, safety, welfare etc.



For the sake of health and safety , ILO has issued Convention concerning Occupational Safety and Health and the Working Environment C155 (Entry into force: 11 Aug 1983) Adopted at  Geneva, 67th ILC session (22 Jun 1981) - Status: Up-to-date instrument (Technical Convention). Convention may be denounced: 11 Aug 2023 - 11 Aug 2024.

Reporting of accident and OSH  C155 relation

This convention OSH C155 clearly requires a competent authority, procedures for accident/incident/disease notification, application of these procedures in case of accident/incident/disease to the concerned, production of annual statistics is also required and investigation of the accident/incident/disease to know the root causes and ascertains the severity. These all conditions mentioned under article 11 and sub article 11c and 11d.

Recommendations are supplementary to conventions and similarly “R164 Occupational safety and health recommendation” supplement the requirements of “The Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 (No.155)”.

Major things mentioned under R164 are record keeping should be done by employers for all notifiable incidents/accidents/disease at workplace as considered necessary by the competent authority. This is mentioned under article 15(2). This article also specifies necessity about keeping records of data related to exposure to worker from specific substances and agents.


Role of ILO:

ILO is a specialized agency of United nations, The ILO accomplishes its work through three main bodies which comprise governments', employers' and workers' representatives: the International labour Conference sets the International labour standards and the broad policies of the ILO. It meets annually in Geneva.187 conventions and recommendations have been adopted by the ILO since 1919 and ILO is tripartite agency involves trade union, member of organisation and government authorities members. So it is easy to implement the developed convention or recommendation by the ILO. Conventions are legal binding on member states of ILO and ILO can easily impose these convention requirements upon them.

So firstly member state has to ratify the convention and then it becomes legal binding upon them to follow the requirements. ILO is advisory body which provides convention and recommendations for human rights. One very important thing is that it provides harmonized standard application as almost every country is its member.


As per The Factories act 1948 reporting of incident/accident (Fatal) should be done within 12 hours through phone, courier/ post.

As per the OSHA (US) reporting of incident/accident (Fatal) should be done within 08 hours through phone, courier/ post/ online feeding system on their site.

As per HSE (UK) reporting of incident/accident (Fatal) should be done immediate through phone, courier/ post during office hours.








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I am a Health and Safety professional writing blogs related to Industrial Health and Safety. I am qualified from Regional labor institute India and International Diploma from NEBOSH.

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