Everything a plant has to hold, prove and produce on inspection — hours and overtime, contract labour, safety and accident records, young and women workers, and the wage registers behind them.
The whole statutory position on one page — built from what you have already entered, printable for a board or a banker.
The limits inspectors test first, and the records that evidence them.
Where principal-employer liability actually lands. A contractor's default becomes your default.
The registers a factory inspector asks for by name, and the compensation exposure behind an accident.
The categories carrying extra restrictions — night work, hazardous processes, hours and stipends.
The core register set, and a rehearsal for the inspection itself.
A note on which law applies. The four Labour Codes took effect on 21 November 2025, repealing the Factories Act, CLRA and 27 other central Acts, and the Central Rules under them were notified in May 2026 — the form numbers and layouts on these registers are those Rules'. What is still uneven is state rules: where a state has not yet notified its own, the central position applies but state-specific thresholds and returns may differ. The applicability checker settles it for your establishment.
Which register set to keep. A factory does not keep two sets. Under rule 72(3) of the OSH Rules, maintaining the equivalent registers under the Code on Wages rules is deemed to satisfy the OSH requirement, and the Social Security rules carry the same deeming at rule 53(1)(a). The registers here follow the OSH numbering, which is the set verified column-by-column against G.S.R. 345(E). The register of women employees is the exception — it is not covered by either deeming provision and must be kept separately.