Welcome to Directorate of Industrial Safety and Health, Maharashtra State

The Directorate of Industrial Safety and Health is functioning under Ministry of Industry, Energy & Labour, Government of Maharashtra and enforces Central and State Labour Acts along with Maharashtra State Rules for the benefits of workers employed in the factories and building & other construction activities.

In compliance with Factories Act 1948, We are absolutely committed to implementation of these regulations for the safety, health and welfare of the workers.

Maharashtra being a leader among industrially developed states and having its maximum number of the workers employed in the factories, We are in the process of perpetual reformation of the services provided to its citizens. These services, available online, with the department portal are provided by the in a transparent, efficient and time bound manner.

Elimination of man to man contact with help of the computerization and data base management has further resulted in better transparency and efficient administration.
The department has successfully & delicafely initiated improvement in quality of the factory inspection by capacity building of the officers through its various training programmes. The quality inspection will ensure significant improvement in the environmental safety, health and welfare in these factories. The steps towards the quality inspection are initiated as risk based inspection and randomization. The inspections of these factories will help in prevention of incidences, injuries and health hazards. Through a critical examination of the factories, inspections would help to identify and record hazards for necessary corrective action.

We strongly believe that statutory provisions along with optimization of safety awareness will be instrumental in achievement of our vision. We, also, believe in the culture of the cultivating the importance of safety among the workers and management. This activity is done by promotion of various trainings programmes and interaction with safety professionals.
The safety and health of the workers in the factories are continuously monitored at micro level with the help of industry professionals. The reports furnished by the professionals are being analyzed by the departments at various hierarchy. These analysis helps us in review of regulations and policy making for achievement of our goal.

We are quiet confident of our initiatives in curtailing the imminent injuries, causalities and health hazards for enhanced the productivity of the state.