SECTION 1. The Bureau of Industrial Safety is hereby created under the Administrative supervision and control of the Department of Labor which shall have the following powers and functions:
(a) To require every employer to furnish employment reasonably safe for the employees engaged therein, furnish and use safety devices and safeguards; adopt methods and processes reasonably adequate to render such employment and the places where employment is performed, including mines, reasonably safe; provide adequate first-aid facilities; provide adequate training and instructions t employees including vehicular drivers on safe methods; do everything reasonably necessary to protect life, health and safety of his employees. To require every employer, owner, or lessee of an industrial building or place employment now or hereafter constructed, to construct, pair and maintain the same so as to render it reasonably safe;
(b) To make and enforce upon the advice of the advisory Safety Council of the Department of Labor approval of the Secretary of Labor, safety orders, and regulations, to require the report of all industrial accidents, and to perform such other functions as may be required by the exigencies of industrial safety;
(c) To control, regulate, and approve the construction demolition, alteration and use of all industrial including shops, factories, bodegas, warehouses, and other working places and to issue rules and regulations pertaining thereto;
(d) To inspect all industrial establishments, mines or any place of employment, including shops, factories, warehouses and bodegas, and machineries, engines, motors, generators and other prime movers, mechanical, electrical, hydraulic engines or devices, gas tanks, oil tanks, and pressure vessels, or motor vehicles to insure their safety, and enforce the provisions of this Act;
(e) For the inspection of machineries, engines, motors, generators, and other prime movers, mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic engines or devices, gas tanks, oil tanks, boilers and pressure vessels, or motor vehicles mentioned n the next preceding paragraph; for the registration of industrial establishments; and for other services, to fix and collect with the advice of the Advisory Safety Council of the Department of Labor and the approval of the Secretary of Labor reasonable fees: Provided, That no extra charge shall be made for the inspection on the machinery and other apparatus connected with the boiler or driven by internal combustion engine: Provided, further, That the amounts so collected shall be deposited in the Philippine Treasury to the credit of the Safety Inspection Fund to be expended for the purpose of the enforcement of this Act, subject to the usual accounting and auditing requirements;
(f) To study and prescribe ways and means of preventing industrial accidents and damage to industrial properties;
(g) To recommend to the Congress the passage of laws for the promotion of the safety and health of all workingmen;
(h) To set up a Safety Laboratory for testing and determining the disadvantageous effect upon workers of gases, dust, fumes, and other injurious substances, etc.