Question

Which Act is a key part of the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020?

• A. The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947
• B. The Factories Act, 1948
• C. The Minimum Wages Act, 1948
• D. The Trade Unions Act, 1926

Hint:

The new OSH Code is a single law for workplace safety. It replaced many old laws, with the most important one being the Factories Act, 1948.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

Step 1: Understand the New Labour Codes.
The Government of India has consolidated numerous central labour laws into four comprehensive codes.
The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 (OSH Code) is one of them.

Step 2: Know the purpose of the OSH Code.
The OSH Code aims to consolidate and amend the laws regulating the occupational safety, health, and working conditions of employees.

Step 3: Identify the laws subsumed by the OSH Code.
The OSH Code replaces and subsumes 13 older labour laws.
The most significant of these, which forms the core of the new code's provisions for manufacturing units, is The Factories Act, 1948.
Other major acts like the Mines Act, the Dock Workers Act, and the Building and Other Construction Workers Act are also subsumed, but the Factories Act is the key piece of legislation related to general industrial safety that is part of this code.