The OSH Code consolidates thirteen statutes — Factories Act 1948, Mines Act 1952, Contract Labour 1970, Inter-State Migrant Workmen 1979, BOCW 1996, Plantation Labour 1951 and seven more — into a single occupational-safety frame. A practitioner's read on the new factory threshold, the migrant worker definition, the contract-labour line, and the June 2026 commencement gap.