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The Attached, Subordinate, Statutory/Autonomous Organisations of Ministry of Labour and Employment

3.4 Directorate General Factory Advice Service & Labour
Institutes (DGFASLI)

The Directorate General Factory Advice Service & Labour Institutes (DGFASLI)
is an attached office of the Ministry. It functions as a technical arm of the Ministry
in matters concerning Occupational Safety, Health, and Welfare of workers in
factories and ports. It assists Central Government in formulation/ review of
policies and legislations on occupational safety and health in factories and ports,
maintains liaison with Factory Inspectorates of States and UTs in regard to the
implementation and enforcement of the provisions of the Factories Act, 1948.
DGFASLI also renders advice on technical matters, enforces the Dock Workers
(Safety Health & Welfare) Act, 1986, provides training mainly in the field of
industrial safety and health including one year Diploma Course in Industrial
safety, three months Certificate course in in Industrial Health (Associate Fellow
of Industrial Health – AFIH), One month certificate course in safety and Health
for supervisory Personnel working in hazardous process industries.

DGFASLI has its Headquarters in Mumbai and has five labour institutes viz.
Central Labour Institute, Mumbai and four Regional Labour Institutes (RLIs)
located in Chennai, Faridabad, Kanpur, and Kolkata. It also has 11 Inspectorates
of Dock Safety at 11 major ports of India viz. Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai,
Visakhapatnam, Paradip, Kandla, Mormugao, Tuticorin, Cochin, New Mangalore,
and Jawaharlal Nehru Port. The labour institutes provide training mainly in the
field of industrial safety and health to the workers, supervisors, safety officers,
occupational health specialists, State factory inspectors, etc. Whereas Inspectorates
of Dock Safety to enforce the Dock Workers (Safety Health & Welfare) Act, 1986
and rules/ regulations framed thereunder.

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