OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH IN INDIAN WORKPLACE: CHALLENGES, REFORMS, AND THE ROAD AHEAD

AUTHOR – MAHALAKSHMI. A, STUDENT AT DR. AMBEDKAR LAW UNIVERSITY

BEST CITATION – MAHALAKSHMI. A, OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH IN INDIAN WORKPLACE: CHALLENGES, REFORMS, AND THE ROAD AHEAD, INDIAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL REVIEW (IJLR), 5 (6) OF 2025, PG. 704-709, APIS – 3920 – 0001 & ISSN – 2583-2344

Abstract

Occupational health remains neglected in most developing countries due to competing social, economic, and political challenges. This has more to do with the fact that the demands are articulated by the less powerful i.e. the workers. Healthcare professionals not routinely obtaining occupational exposure history, long latency period of morbidities, lack of accurate data on toxic exposure, and conflicts of interest between the financial gains of the employer and the health of the worker are sum of the major challenges to reporting of occupational events. Improved surveillance systems, stricter implementations of legislations, large scale clinical and epidemiological research and better educational opportunities are the need of the hour. In India, rapid industrialization and economic growth have heightened the need for robust Occupational Safety and Health(OSH) mechanisms.