COUNTRY REPORT –SRI LANKA

Eng. P.L. Bulathsinghala

Factory Inspecting Engineer

Industrial Safety Division

Department of Labour

Sri Lanka.

District Factory Inspecting

Engineer’s Office 10

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ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

Lack of regulations under the Factories Ordinance

Factories Ordinance to be upgraded

Number of Factory Inspecting Engineers

Lack of resources, experts in formulating regulations, and legal drafts

Training of Factory Inspecting Engineers

SME’s commitment for OSH

Enhancing Statistical data collecting system

Standards for High Risk Machineries

Lack of regulations

There are no regulations for

Fire Safety

Chemical Safety

Ergonomics

Electrical Safety

and many more

Responsibilities

Enforcement and implementation of Factories Ordinance

Inspection of factories

Apporval of building plans

Attend Coroners court to give expert evidence

Investigation of accidents/complaints

Institute legal actions

Conduct Safety awareness programs to prevent accidents

Analysis of accidents

Appointment of Authorized Officers

Issue of certificates under the Factories Ordinance

Making of Safety posters, Leaflets, Short films

Regulations

Factories (No.1) Regulations 1960

Factories (Sanitary Conveniences) Regulations 1965

Factories (Dangerous Occurrences Notification)

Regulations 1965

Factories (Washing facilities General) Regulations 1965

Factories (General Standards of Lighting) Regulations 1965

Factories (Meal Room) Regulations 1965

Factories (Steam Boiler Attendants Certificates of

competency) Regulations 1965

Factories (Notifiable Industrial Diseases) Regulations 1972

Factories (Protection of Eyes) Regulations 1979

Factories (First Aid) Regulations 1995

Number of Factory Inspecting Engineers

No. of Registered Factories (by 2016) 27570

No. of Factory Inspecting Engineers 21

No. of Specialist Factory Inspecting

Engineers

3

13

19

6

13

98

1

14

75

1

16

15

3

18

09

6

19

82

3

20

87

0

22

31

6

23

84

4

25

23

6

26

19

8

27

57

0

0

10000

20000

30000

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

No. of Registered Factories4

88

47

74

97

66

46

08

07

16

8 76

67

68

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

2005

2007

2009

2011

2013

2015

2017

No. of Fatal Accidents

NO. of Fatal Accidents

15

66

17

40

17

55

15

23

14

49

14

56

1313

13

19

13

44

13

61

12

51

13

94

15

64

0

200

400

600

800

1000

1200

1400

1600

1800

2000

No. of Nonfatal Accidents

No. of Nonfatal Accidents

Enhancing Statistical data collecting

system

Reporting Industrial Accidents

Formal reporting

under the legislation

Through

Media / Complaints

all the accidents

Cause death to any person employed in the factory

Disables any such person for more than three days from

earning full wages at work at which he was employed, or

Make any such persons unconscious as a result of heat

exhaustion ,electric shock, poisonous fumes or gases

are reportable to the District Factory Inspecting Engineer

using Form 10 immediately after the injury.

Under the Legislation

It is possible to get the information from the

following sources

Hospitals in Health Department of Sri Lanka.

Police Department of Sri Lanka.

Insurance Companies of Sri Lanka.

Department of Agriculture of Sri Lanka.

Department of Transport of Sri Lanka

Assisting Industries while overcoming issues