Understanding the Stability Certificate for Factories: How Do You Get One and From Where?

I want to know about the stability certificate for a factory. What is the process to obtain it and from which department? Kindly share your knowledge and details about the stability certificate.

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Faruk Shaikh
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This certificate of stability is to be issued by the competent person in the prescribed form as provided by the applicable State Factory Rules and is required to be submitted to the State Chief Inspector of Factories. If your appropriate government is the state government, then go through your state Factory Rules to know more about this matter. You can also approach your area Inspector of Factories in the Labour Department for your query.

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R.N. KHOLA

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As far as my experience goes, the Stability Certificate can be obtained from your architect/builder who constructed your factory for the first time. There is a specific format for this. It must be provided every five years to the Department of Industrial Safety & Health, or sooner if there are any modifications or changes made to the building.

Subsequently, you can obtain the certificate from any other registered Structural Engineer or Civil Engineer.

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Kalpana Iyer

Can somebody please provide a sample format of the stability certificate.

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Akhilesh Singh
Delhi
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This is to inform you that the format of the stability certificate is provided by the applicable Factory Rules. Therefore, first, examine which State/Central Factory Rules are applicable in your case and then obtain the format from those applicable Rules.

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R.N. Khola
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Dear R.N Khola Sir, thank you for your response. I am working in a gas-based thermal power plant in Delhi; hence, the Delhi Factory Rule of 1950 is applicable to us. Kindly advise.

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MODEL RULES UNDER THE FACTORIES ACT, 1948 (Corrected up to 31-3-1987)

CHAPTER I

Certificate of Stability:

(1) No manufacturing process shall be carried on in any building of a factory constructed, reconstructed, or extended, or in any building which has been taken into use as a factory or part of a factory until a certificate of stability in respect of that building in the form given below has been sent by the occupier or manager of the factory to the Chief Inspector, and accepted by him.

***A Form of Certificate of Stability is as below.

Form of Certificate of Stability

1. Name of the Factory:

2. Village, town, and district in which the factory is situated:

3. Full postal address of the factory:

4. Name of the occupier of the factory:

5. Nature of the manufacturing process to be carried on in the factory:

6. Number of floors on which workers will be employed:

I certify that I have inspected the building/buildings, the plans of which have been approved by the Chief Inspector in his letter No.... dated ....... and examined the various parts including the foundations with special reference to the machine, plant, etc., that have been installed. I am of the opinion that the building/buildings which have been constructed/reconstructed/extended/taken into use are in accordance with the plans approved by the Chief Inspector in his letter mentioned above, that they are structurally sound, and that their stability will not be endangered by their use as a factory/part of a factory for the manufacture of... for which the machinery, plant, etc. installed are intended.

Signature ..............................

Qualifications ........................

Address ...............................

Date ................................

If employed by a company or association, name and address of the company or association.

(2) The Certificate of Stability referred to in sub-rule (1) shall be signed by a competent person.

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Jawed Alam

Dear Jawed Alam, thank you for this valuable information. With a request to our senior members, please kindly provide the standard format as prescribed in The Delhi Factory Rule 1950.

Regards, Akhilesh Singh

Dear R N Khola, I want to know if there is any correlation between the stability certificate and the factory license. We applied for a stability certificate for 250 workers and also applied for 450 workers in Form 2A for the factory license.

Regards, Arvind