Health and Hygiene
- Sufficient number of toilets shall be provided by the contractor for its workforce and hygiene
standard should be maintained.
- The contractor must maintain record of medical examinations of its workforce as per The Building and other construction workers Act 1996,
Central Rules 1998 and The Factories Act 1948 and other state Factories Rules. This will include eye testing also.
- Adequate means of providing first aid should be readily available at construction site and during working hours at places where work is carried out.
- Medical aid for First-Aid should be available.
- First Aid kits or boxes should be provided at the designated workplaces and in motor vehicles and be protected against contamination by dust,
moisture, etc.
- Stretchers or carrying baskets so constructed that persons can be transported without having to be transferred from the stretcher
or the carrying baskets should be readily available.
- When workforce is employed underground or beneath structures or pits or any other conditions in which they may need to be rescued,
suitable rescue equipment like tripod with pulley and safety belt should be readily available at construction site along with trained rescue workers.