OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY HEALTH AND WORKING CONDITIONS CODE LAW MANUAL BY TAXMANN PUBLICATIONS-2026

Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code Law Manual is Taxmann’s authoritative single-volume working reference on India’s occupational safety, health and working conditions statute as it now operates in practice. The 2026 Edition is built around the editorial position that the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code 2020 must be read as a system: the statute together with the rules made under it, the prescribed forms, the enforcement and Article 239 notifications, the dedicated post-enforcement clarifications and the cross-Code compliance machinery that surrounds it. The Manual brings all of these into one volume and arranges them so the reader can move between them in the order their work actually requires—concordance lookup, section text, editorial restatement, supporting case law, applicable rule, prescribed form, jurisdictional notification, FAQ, compliance checklist—without leaving the book.

The Manual also incorporates the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (Central) Rules 2026 with all 186 rules across fourteen chapters, seven annexures setting out the equipment lists for First Aid Box, Ambulance Room, First Aid Station and Medical Facilities Room, and twenty-seven prescribed Forms (Forms I to XXVII); this Edition is the first to carry the Code with that full implementation machinery in place.

The Manual is built for the reader who works with the OSH&WC Code as operative law and needs the supporting apparatus alongside the statutory text:

• HR, Industrial Relations and Compliance Heads in factories, mines, plantations, ports, construction projects, motor transport undertakings, contract-labour establishments