Safety in Industry Act, 1980

Minister may cause certain investigations to be carried out on receipt of request from safety representative, safety committee or safety officer.

38.—Where the Minister, having received a request in that behalf from a safety representative, a safety committee or a safety officer, considers it appropriate, he may cause an investigation to be carried out by an inspector as regards a danger or potential danger to the safety, health or welfare of persons employed in the relevant factory or specified premises which the safety representative, safety committee or safety officer believes to exist and specifies in the request, and when completed the Minister may, if he thinks fit, communicate the outcome of the investigation to the person or committee by whom the request was made.