(1) Every employer shall:
  (a) take all possible and reasonably practicable measures to ensure safety and health of the employees at the workplace;
  (b) ensure systematic and effective identification of the existing and new hazards at the workplace on a regular basis;
  (c) arrange for training of safety and health representatives every year to attend health and safety training as approved by the Government and shall bear all expenses thereof;
  (d) get, at his own expense, the employees vaccinated and inoculated against occupational related diseases at such intervals as may be prescribed;
  (e) ensure provision and application of processes, systems of work and tasks to be safe and without risks of harm to health;
  (f) ensure provision and maintenance of tools, machinery, equipment and appliances which are safe and without risks of harm;
  (g) make arrangements to control and prevent physical, chemical, biological, radiological, ergonomics and psycho-social or any other hazards to the employees and other persons at the workplace;
  (h) provide such information, instructions, training and supervision, as is necessary or required under the Act and the rules;
  (i) keep the workplace in safe, clean, orderly and harm-free condition, and provide and maintain safe means of access to and egress from the workplace;
  (j) inform the employees in an understandable manner and in accessible written form, before any work commences, the hazards associated with their work, risks involved and the preventative and protective measures that need to be taken;
  (k) provide where necessary to the employees, at his own expense, if hazards cannot otherwise be eliminated or controlled, adequate protective clothing and protective equipment as may be approved by the Government, to prevent every risk of harm and of adverse effects on health;
  (l) maintain in the general register particulars of all accidents including dangerous occurrences, commuting accidents and suspected cases of occupational diseases at the workplace and submit the extracts thereof to the Government;
  (m) provide where necessary measures including adequate first aid arrangements to deal with emergencies, dangerous occurrences, accidents and industrial disasters; and
  (n) take all practical measures for the prevention of fires or explosions and for the provision of safety measures in the event of fire or explosions as well.

(2) The employer shall record particulars of an accident or harm which occurs at a workplace and shall take all reasonably practicable steps to ensure that the event is so investigated as to determine the cause of accident or harm.

(3) Wherever two or more undertakings engage in activities simultaneously at one workplace, the employers of each undertaking shall collaborate in applying the provisions of the Act.