SECTION 108

(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.