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(&) The power to enter by day any place which they may have reasonable cause to believe to be an undertaking, or part thereof, subject to their supervision: 7 . (c) The power to question any person employed in the undertaking, either alone or in the presence of witnesses, or to apply for information to any other person whose evidence they may consider necessary: . (d) The power to require to be shown any registers or documents which. the laws regulating conditions of work require to be kept. 2. Before leaving the undertaking, Inspectors shall, if possible, notify the employer or his representative of their visit, unless they consider such a notification may be prejudicial to the performance of their duties. Section 7. —Conciliation Article 19 1. All procedures for the investigation and settlement of disputes between employer and worker shall be as simple as possible. 2. Employers and workers shall be encouraged to reach fair settlements of disputes by conciliation without recourse to Courts of law. For this purpose all practicable measures shall be taken to consult and associate the representatives of organizations of employers and workers in the establishment and working of conciliation machinery. 3. Subject to the operation of such machinery, public officers shall be responsible for the investigation of disputes and shall endeavour to promote conciliation and to assist the parties in arriving at a fair settlement. Where practicable, these officers shall be officers especially assigned to such duties. Section 8. —Health and Safety in Employment Article 20 1. Minimum conditions shall be prescribed for the protection of the health, safety, and welfare of workers in industrial undertakings and in other undertakings where the machinery used or the operations performed render such measures necessary. 2. Machinery imported from abroad shall be equipped with the safety devices prescribed in the territory of importation. If the competent authority in the territory of importation has not prescribed the necessary safety devices for any imported machinery, such machinery shall be equipped with the devices prescribed in the country of manufacture. 3. So far as possible, the safety devices shall be incorporated in the original design of the machinery. Article 21 1. Consideration shall be given to the application to dependent territories of the provisions of the Protection against Accidents (Dockers) Convention (Revised), 1932, in particular in the case of large ports and wherever new machinery is installed for the loading or unloading of ships, whether berthed in docks," at buoy, or at anchorage. 2. Consideration shall be given to the desirability of ratifying the Protection against Accidents (Dockers) Convention (Revised), 1932, by such States responsible for dependent territories possessing ports as have not already done so.

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