ENFORCEMENT OF FACTORIES ACT AND ALLIED ACTS
Regular Inspections
i.) Joint Director, Industrial Safety and Health.
i.) SSI Units (Not engaged in Dangerous operation & Hazardous Processses):
1/60 of the total Number of S.S.I. Units alloted @ random i.e once in 5 years
ii.) SSI Units (Engaged in Dangerous operation and/or hazardous Processses) and other Non-small scale industrial units:
Once in every Six months
All Match and Fireworks once in every 4 months.
ii.) Deputy Director, Industrial Safety and Health.
i.) As above
ii.) As above
iii.) As above
iii.) Assistant Director, Industrial Safety and Health.
i.)
As above
ii.) As above
iii.) As above
Check Inspections
i.) Senior Additional Director, Industrial Safety and Health.
1 MAH (Major Accident Hazard) factories per month.
ii.) Additional Director, Industrial Safety and Health.
One Factory allotted to each Joint Director,
Industrial Safety and Health in his zone per month in which one MAH unit is compulsory.
iii.) Joint Director, Industrial Safety and Health.
5 Factories allotted to Subordinate Officers i.e.,
3 Factories allotted to Deputy Director, Industrial Safety and Health.
2 Factories alloted to Assistant Director, Industrial Safety and Health.
Squad Inspection under Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act 1986 to eliminate Child Labour.
Five Inspections have to be done every month under Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act by each Joint Director, Industrial Safety and Health / Deputy Director, Industrial Safety and Health. / Assistant Director, Industrial Safety and Health, Exclusively for elimination of Child Labour. Among five , one Joint Inspection have to done every month with other department officials.
Registration of URF's :
Ten Unregistered Factories have to be inspected every month by each Deputy Director, Industrial Safety and Health / Assistant Director, Industrial Safety and Health in each division and see that no URF application is pending in the office left uninspected.
Enforcement of Building & Other Constructions Workers (Regulation of Employment and conditions of service) Act 1996 and Tamil Nadu Rules 2006:
Twenty five Unregistered Establishment have to be inspected per month and ten to be registered per month for Urban and three for Rural areas by each of the Assistant Director, Industrial Safety and Health and Deputy Director, Industrial Safety and Health. Each Deputy Director has to conduct two Training classes for safety per month in BOCW site, Covering fifty construction workers in each class.
Mobile Team :
Twenty five Firework Factories have to be inspected every month and to conduct two
Safety Classes every month under the Factories Act and Rules by the Additional Director Mobile Team in Firework Factories at Virudhunagar.
The following Acts and Tamil Nadu Rules are enforced by the officials during the inspection of factories / building and
other construction establishments and the compliance of the enactments are ensured.
- The Factories Act 1948
- The Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act 1970
- The Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act 1986.
- The Equal Remuneration Act 1976.
- The Inter–State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act 1979.
- The Labour Laws (Exemption from furnishing Returns and maintaining Registers by certain Establishment) Act 1988.
- The Maternity Benefit Act 1961.
- The Minimum Wages Act 1948.
- The Payment of Wages Act 1936.
- The Payment of Gratuity Act 1972.
- The Payment of Bonus Act 1965.
- The Building and other Construction workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of service) Act 1996.
- Manufacture, Storage and Import of Hazardous Chemicals Rules 1989.
- The Tamil Nadu Industrial Establishments (Conferment of Permanent Status) Act 1981
- The Tamil Nadu Industrial Establishments (National & Festival Holidays) Act 1958
- Tamil Nadu Labour welfare Fund Act 1972.
- The Tamil Nadu Payment of Subsistence Allowance Act 1981.
- The Tamil Nadu Control of Industrial Major Accident Hazards
Rules1994.