Workplace safety: Government-directed inquiries and surveys can assign responsibility and compel evidence to prevent accidents and occupational disease. The appropriate Government may appoint assessors or direct officers or committees to inquire into workplace accidents or epidemic occupational diseases, fix responsibility, suggest preventive action, and submit reports; those conducting inquiries or surveys have civil court powers to enforce attendance and production of evidence and may exercise necessary Inspector-cum-Facilitator powers, while the Central Government may prescribe procedural rules.
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Workplace safety: Government-directed inquiries and surveys can assign responsibility and compel evidence to prevent accidents and occupational disease.
The appropriate Government may appoint assessors or direct officers or committees to inquire into workplace accidents or epidemic occupational diseases, fix responsibility, suggest preventive action, and submit reports; those conducting inquiries or surveys have civil court powers to enforce attendance and production of evidence and may exercise necessary Inspector-cum-Facilitator powers, while the Central Government may prescribe procedural rules.
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