Centre likely to mandate health checks for workers every year

The move will help employers keep a track of the diseases workers could suffer from while doing their jobs

The Centre has proposed to make it compulsory for companies to conduct health checks of factory workers every year. 

This is part of a draft code on occupational safety, health and working conditions, put forward by the ministry of labour and employment. The government is trying to merge and reclassify the country's 44 labour laws into four broad codes — one each on industrial relations, wages, social security, and occupational safety, health and working conditions. The Centre has already proposed the first three and these are at various stages of approval.

“We believe annual health check-ups will lead