19. Duties of Safety Officers in case of dock work and building or other construction work.-The duties of a Safety Officer shall be to advise and assist in the fulfilment of statutory obligations, concerning prevention of personal injuries and maintenance of a safe working environment and shall include the following, namely:-

(a) advising the concerned departments in planning and organising measures necessary for the effective control of personal injuries;

(b) advising on safety aspects in all job studies and to carry out detailed job safety studies of selected jobs;

(c) to check and evaluate the effectiveness of the action taken or proposed to be taken to prevent personal injuries;

(d) to provide advice on matters related to carrying out safety inspections;

(e) to carry out plant safety inspections observe the physical conditions of work and the work practices and procedures followed by workers and to render advice on measures to be adopted for removing the unsafe physical conditions and preventing unsafe actions by workers;

(f) to render advice on matters related to reporting and investigation of accidents, dangerous occurrences and diseases;

(g) to investigate selected accidents and dangerous occurrences ;

(h) to investigate the cases of notifiable diseases listed in the Third Schedule to the Code;

(i) to organise in association with the concerned departments, campaigns, competitions, contests and other activities which will develop and maintain the interest of the workers in establishing and maintaining safe conditions of work and procedures;

(j) to design and conduct either independently or in collaboration with the training department, suitable training and educational programme for the prevention of personal injuries; and

(k) the safety officer shall maintain in a bound paged book or in retrievable and non-editable electronic form a detailed record of the work performed by safety officer.