(1) Labour Inspectors with the proper credentials
shall be empowered :
• - to enter any establishment liable to inspection, freely and
without warning at any time of the day or night, for the
purpose of inspection ;
• - to enter for the purpose of inspection any infirmary of an
establishment or any canteen, sanitary installation or any
facility supplying workers with water.
• - to carry out any examination, control or inquiry which they
consider necessary to ascertain that the laws regulations in
force are strictly complied with and, in particular:
• - to interrogate, alone or in the present of witnesses, the
employer or the staff of the enterprise on any matters
concerning the application of the laws and regulations in
force ;
• - to ask for any books, registers and documents the keeping
of which is prescribed by laws or regulations relating to
conditions of employment, in order to ensure that they
conform with the laws and regulations in force and to copy
such documents or make extracts from them;
• - to enforce the posting of notices where this is required by
the laws and regulations in force ;
• - to take and carry away for purposes of analysis samples of
materials and substances used or handled, subject to the
employer or his representative being notified of any samples
taken and carried away for such purpose.
(2) Labour Inspectors shall notify the employer or his
representative of any inspection visit unless they consider that
such notification may be prejudicial to the effectiveness of the
inspection.
Official text
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In force from 14 August 1992
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