8.2 Labour Officers and Factory Inspectors and Their Powers and Functions

The inspectorate's powers: the entry-and-inspection (the workplace's access — the safety's- and-standards' check); the records' examination (the registers, the wage-books); the samples-and- tests (the hazardous-materials faces); the improvement-and-prohibition notices (the violations' orders — the danger's immediate stop); the prosecutions (the offences' initiation); the accident inquiries (the dangerous occurrences' investigation). The officer's character: the quasi-judicial faces (the conciliation-and-orders — the natural-justice duty of the Administrative Law course); the impartiality's discipline (the both-sides' servant — the labour-and-management's balance).