Section 168 in The Tamil Nadu Building and other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Rules, 2006
168. Medical-lock.
- The employer shall ensure at a construction site of a building or other construction work that,-(a)a suitably constructed medical-lock is maintained at tunneling work where building workers are employed in a working chamber at a pressure exceeding one bar; and(b)where more than one hundred building workers are employed in a compressed air working environment exceeding one bar at tunneling work, one medical-lock is provided for every one hundred building workers or part thereof and such medical-lock is situated as near as possible to the main-lock used at such tunneling work.
