Occupational Safety & Health – Professional

Ethics

K.M.U.B. Kulasekara
District Factory Inspecting Engineer
Department of Labour
Kandy
 Notifications Under Factories Ordinance

Following incidents should be notified to the

Department of Labour under the Factories
Ordinance
 Accidents
 Dangerous Occurrences
 Industrial Diseases

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 Notification of Accidents (Section 61)
Where any accident occurs in a factory which-
1. Causes loss of life to a person employed in that factory; or
2. Disables any such person for more than three days; or
3. Makes any such person unconscious as a result of heat,
electric shock or inhalation of poisonous fumes or gases,
written notice of the accident shall forthwith be sent by the
occupier to the District Factory Inspecting Engineer.

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 Notification of Accidents (Section 61) contd….

Where an accident occurs in the factory causing the

death of any person employed therein, no person
shall touch or disturb or cause any other person to
touch or disturb, without the permission of a factory
inspecting engineer ,any machinery or any article
which was involved in such accident, other than for
the purpose of extricating or attending on any
person concerned in such accident

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 1998 Amendment to section 61

Where an accident occurs to a person employed

and the occupier of the factory is not the actual
employer of the person killed or injured, the
occupier shall obtain from the actual employer of
the person killed or injured, written notice of the
accident and shall forthwith sent to District
Factory Inspecting Engineer
Important when there are sub contractors or
contract labour

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 If the person is disable for more than three days …

• Form 10 should be sent

• Follow up report on Form CFIE -1 should be sent
once the person returns to work

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If the injured person is having a permanent
disablement Medical Examination Report
under Workmen’s Compensation Act
should be sent

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 Section 62- Notification of dangerous Occurrences

Dangerous Occurrences specified in Factories (Dangerous Occurrences Notification)

Regulations, 1965 should be notified to the DFIE

e.g. Explosion of a Steam Boiler , Air Receiver Collapse of a crane etc.

Visit Dept. Website www.labourdept.gov.lk for details

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 Section 63- Notification of Industrial Diseases

Industrial diseases specified in Factories

(Notifiable Industrial Diseases)
regulations,1972 should be notified to DFIE

E.g. Silicosis, Asbestosis

Visit Dept. Website www.labourdept.gov.lk for details

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 Displaying Addresses of the District Factory
Inspecting Engineer & the Chief Factory Inspecting
Engineer- Section 90 of Factories Ordinance
A notice of Addresses of the District Factory Inspecting
Engineer for the district & the Chief Factory Inspecting
Engineer shall be displayed at the principal entrances
of the factory.

Chief Factory Inspecting Engineer

Industrial Safety Division
Department of Labour
No. 97, Jawatte Road
Colombo 05
Tel./Fax 0112508783

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 District Factory Inspecting Engineers

Colombo North
Colombo south
Kalutara
Galle
Kandy
Ratnapura
Badulla
Kurunegala
Anuradhapura
Jaffna

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 Addresses of DFIEs

District factory Inspecting Engineer (Colombo South)

Dept. of Labour
No. 97, Jawatte Road
Colombo 05 Tel: 0112508775

District factory Inspecting Engineer (Colombo North)

Dept. of Labour
No. 207, Sri Bodhi Road
Gampaha. Tel: 0332232403

District factory Inspecting Engineer (Kalutara)

Dept. of Labour
No. 131/1, Old Road
Kalutara South

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 Addresses of DFIEs……

District factory Inspecting Engineer (Galle)

Dept. of Labour
Lower Dickson Road
Galle. Tel: 0912225778

District factory Inspecting Engineer (Kandy)

Dept. of Labour
Yatinuwara Veediya
Kandy Tel: 0812225087

District factory Inspecting Engineer (Rathnapura)

Dept. of Labour
Dharmapala Road
Rathnapura Tel: 0452232069

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 Addresses of DFIEs……

District factory Inspecting Engineer (Badulla)

Dept. of Labour
Kailagoda Junction
Kandy Road
Badulla Tel: 0552223550

District factory Inspecting Engineer (Kurunegala)

Dept. of Labour
South Circular Road
Gattuwana
Kurunegala Tel; 0372220760

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 Addresses of DFIEs……

District factory Inspecting Engineer (Anuradhapura)

Dept. of Labour
Court Place
Anuradhapura Tel: 0252226798

District factory Inspecting Engineer (Jaffna)

Dept. of Labour
No. 133, Navalar Road
Jaffna Tel: 0212224052

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 Maintaining an accident register (General Register) –
Section 92 of F.O

A general register shall be maintained in the

factory
Extracts from the GR shall be sent to DFIE once
in six months

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Preservation of registers and records- Section 93
of F.O

The General Register and every other register or

record kept in pursuance of F.O shall be
preserved and shall be kept available for
inspection for at least two years after the date
of the last entry.

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 Duties of persons employed – section 95

No person employed in a factory shall willfully

interfere with or misuse any means, appliance,
convenience or other thing provided in pursuance
of F.O for securing the Safety, Health or Welfare
of the persons employed in the factory and
where any means or appliance for securing safety
or health is provided for the use of such person
under F.O he shall use the means or appliance
No person employed in a factory shall willfully and
without reasonable cause do anything likely to
endanger himself or others

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 Section 109- Fines

• First offence- not less than 5000/=

• Second Offence- not less than 5000/= but not
exceeding 12500/=
• Third Offence- not less than 12500/= but not
exceeding 25000/=

In case of an injury or death –not exceeding

100,000/=
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 Liability Under the Workmen’s Compensation
Ordinance
• Liability- The employer is liable to pay
compensation to a workman who meets with an
accident which causes injury or death. The
accident;
Must have arisen out of his employment
and
In the course of his employment
Contracting an occupational disease is also treated
as an accident in the course of his employment.
The disease must be directly or reasonably
attributed to the work in which he was engaged
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 Exceptions
The employer is not liable;
(a) If the injury is negligible. i.e. if the disablement does
not exceed 3 days,
(b) Any injury which does not result in death and which is
directly attributed to,
(i) the fact that the workman was under the influence
of liquor
(ii) willful disobedience of the orders expressly given
to him in order to secure safety
(iii) willful removal of or disregard of any safety device
given to the workman in order to secure safety

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