law: Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996 
  
  40.Power of appropriate Government to make rules for the safety and health
  
  of building workers.- 
  (1) The appropriate Government may, by notification,
  
  make rules regarding the measures to be taken for the safety and health of
  
  building workers in the course of their employment and the equipment and
  
  appliances necessary to be provided to them for ensuring their safety, health
  
  and protection, during such employment.
  (2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing
  
  power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matter,
  
  namely:---
  (a) the safe means of access to, and the safety of, any working place,
  
  including the provision of suitable and sufficient scaffolding at various
  
  stages when work cannot be safety from the ground of from any part of building
  
  of from a ladder of such other means of support;
  (b) the precautions to
  
  be taken in connection with the demolition of the whole or any substantial part
  
  of a building or other structure under the supervision of a competent person
  
  and the avoidance of danger from collapse of any building or other structure
  
  while removing any part of the framed building or other structure by shorting
  
  or otherwise;
  (c) the handing or use of explosive under the control of competent persons so
  
  that there is no exposure to the risk of injury from explosion or from flying
  
  material;
  (d) the erection, installation, use and maintenance of transporting equipment,
  
  such as locomotives, trucks, wagons and other vehicles and trailers and
  
  appointment of competent persons to drive of operate such equipment;
  (e) the erection, installation, use and maintenance of hoists, lifting
  
  appliances and lifting gear including periodical testing and examination and
  
  heat treatment, where necessary, precautions to be taken while raising or
  
  lowering loads, restrictions on carriage of persons and appointment of
  
  competent persons on hoists or other lifting appliances;
  (f) the adequate and suitable lighting of every workplace and approach thereto,
  
  of every place where raising or lowering operations with the use of hoists,
  
  lifting appliances or lifting gears are in progress and of all openings
  
  dangerous to building workers employed;
  (g) the precautions to
  
  be taken to prevent inhalation of dust, fumes, gases or vapors during any
  
  grinding, cleaning, spraying or manipulation of any material and steps to be
  
  taken to secure and maintain adequate ventilation of every working place or
  
  confined space;
  (h) the measures to be taken during stacking or unstacking ,
  
  stowing or unstowing of materials or goods or
  
  handling in connection therewith;
  ( i ) the safeguarding of machinery including the
  
  fencing of every fly-wheel and every moving part of a prime mover and every
  
  part of transmission or other machinery, unless it is in such a position or of
  
  such construction as to be safe to every worker working on any of the
  
  operations and as if is were securely fenced;
  (j) the safe handling and use of plant, including tools and equipment operated
  
  by compressed air;
  (k) the precautions to be taken in case of fire;
  (l) the limits of weight to be lifted or moved by workers;
  
  
  (m) the safe transport of workers to or from any workplace by water and
  
  provision of means for rescue from drowning;
  (n) the steps to be taken to prevent danger to workers from live electric wires
  
  or apparatus including electrical machinery an tools and from overhead wires;
  (o) the keeping of safety nets, safety sheets and safety belts where the
  
  special nature or the circumstances of work render them necessary for the
  
  safety of the workers;
  (p) the standards to be complied with regard to scaffolding, ladders and
  
  stairs, lifting appliances, ropes, chains and accessories, earth moving
  
  equipments and floating operational equipments;
  (q) the precautions to be taken with regard to pile driving, concrete work,
  
  work with hot asphalt, tar or other similar things, insulation work, demolition
  
  operations, excavation, underground construction and handing materials;
  (r) the safety policy, that is to say, a policy relating to steps to be taken
  
  to ensure the safety and health of the building workers, the administrative
  
  arrangements therefor and the matters connected
  
  therewith, to be framed by the employers and contractors for the operations to
  
  be carried on in a building or other construction work;
  (s) the information to be furnished to the Bureau of Indian Standards
  
  established under the Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 1986, regarding the use
  
  of any article or process covered under that Act in a building or other
  
  construction work;
  (t) the provision and maintenance of medical facilities for building workers;
  (u) any other matter concerning the safety and health of workers working in any
  
  of the operations being carried on in a building or other construction work.