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Occupational Health Standards — Key Judgments
Updated 19 Oct 2026
Key Judgments
Consumer Education & Research Centre v. Union of India (27 January 1995), [1995] 1 SCR 626
1995The asbestos litigation connected occupational-health protection with detecting disease and preserving evidence after employment ended. Besides records and exposure controls, the…
Gujarat Mazdoor Sabha v. State of Gujarat, W.P. (C) No. 708 of 2020 (1 October 2020)
2020The Court treated humane working conditions and legally required overtime pay as part of worker dignity. It rejected blanket pandemic exemptions that failed the old Factories…
Occupational Health and Safety Association v. Union of India, W.P. (C) No. 79 of 2005 (31 January 2014)
2014For coal-fired thermal power plants, the Court asked whether effective health services, assessment of occupational-health status and medical treatment actually existed. It sent…