Sector 06 of 06 · Metals & Heavy

Factories Act and OSH Code, every shift, every zone.

Audit-ready, not just digital.

Steel, aluminium, foundry, fabrication, mining-adjacent and heavy fabrication plants. Multi-shift, multi-zone, contractor-heavy operations running thousands of workers per shift. Statutory shift records, OSH evidence, CLRA musters at scale. Zentry handles the volume.

PLANT · LIVE OPSShift 1 · 09:42
14,084
WORKERS · ON SITE
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AGENCIES · ACTIVE
✓ 42 workers · all certified
✓ 18 workers · all signed
8 workers · 1 cert expiring
Auto-generated · daily
EXPORT OSH PACK
Live · 14k workers · OSH-ready
Audit cadenceFactories Act · OSH Code 2020 · DG Inspector
Key buyersPlant Head, Safety Head, HR Head
Compliance hooksFactories Act, OSH Code 2020, CLRA, §41C, IS 14489
RecommendedSitewide bundle or Sitewide+, Hybrid Edge or Cloud
Why Metals & Heavy chooses Zentry

Factories Act and OSH Code, every shift, every zone.

Heavy industry plants in India run on scale that breaks the standard SaaS approach. A steel plant in Hazira might run 14,000 contractor workers across three shifts. A foundry in Coimbatore might have 90 different contractor agencies on the rolls at any time. Multi-zone access, multi-shift roster, multi-agency CLRA paperwork: the operational complexity is enormous, and the audit pressure from the DG Factory Inspectorate and the OSH inspector is constant.

Zentry is built for that scale. Gate handles thousands of events per shift without breaking. Muster view auto-generates CLRA Forms XIII through XXIII across all agencies. Induct enforces zone-specific induction for hot work, confined space, height work, electrical work. Drive manages inbound logistics for high-volume raw material gates. Pass handles the constant flow of contractors, vendors, customers, regulators. The whole platform is configured to handle workforce volume that would crash a generic LMS or HRMS.

What heavy industry audits demand:

  • Per-shift workforce evidence across thousands of contractor workers.
  • Per-zone access logs for hot work, confined space, height work, electrical work.
  • Per-agency CLRA Forms XIII through XXIII across 50 to 100 contractor agencies.
  • Inbound logistics evidence for high-volume raw material and dispatch gates.
  • OSH Code 2020 workforce governance evidence per plant per period.

From operational scale that breaks standard tools to evidence that scales with the plant.

The wedge

The modules Metals & Heavy plants start with.

The 2 to 3 Zentry modules that open the conversation in your sector. Most Metals & Heavy plants begin here, expand later.

Compliance hooks

Statutes that drive Metals & Heavy buying decisions.

Factories Act

Pan-India workforce governance evidence chain. Per-shift, per-zone, per-agency evidence for the DG Factory Inspector.

OSH Code 2020

Consolidated labour code workforce governance evidence. Per-period, per-plant exports.

CLRA 1970

Forms XIII through XXIII at scale: 50 to 100 contractor agencies, thousands of workers, multi-shift evidence.

Factories Act §41C

MAH-classified heavy plants (large steel, aluminium, fertilizer) get the per-zone access evidence chain for the MAH unit.

IS 14489 (OSH Audit Code)

Plant safety governance evidence aligned with the OSH audit code.

Who buys for Metals & Heavy

The heads behind the Metals & Heavy buying decision.

Plant HeadGM Operations / VP Plant

Pain: Workforce visibility across thousands of contractor workers is broken. Incident traceability is reactive.

Zentry answer: Per-worker, per-zone, per-shift live visibility. Incident forensics become clean. Insurance and licence postures improve.

Safety HeadEHS / HSE Manager

Pain: Hot work, confined space and height work induction is paper, multiple zones, hundreds of workers per day.

Zentry answer: Zone-specific induction enforced at the kiosk. Per-zone certificate validity check at every entry.

HR HeadTime Office / IR

Pain: CLRA Forms XIII through XXIII across 50 to 100 agencies. The pre-audit rewrite cycle is full weeks.

Zentry answer: Forms XIII through XXIII auto-generated across all agencies. From multiple weeks to multiple seconds.

Deployment

Recommended for Metals & Heavy.

Most heavy industry plants choose Hybrid Edge for data residency at the plant with multi-plant Group visibility over internet. Multi-plant steel and aluminium Groups often choose Cloud for the central console. On-Premise is the choice for defence-adjacent forging or specialty alloy plants.

Cloud

Fastest deploy. India-resident, multi-AZ. Multi-plant console.

  • Runs in the cloud, devices connect via plant network
  • Central console for multi-plant analytics
  • Automatic updates and patching
Best for

Multi-plant operators, auto Tier-1, IT-mature plants

On-Premise

Fully air-gapped. Zero internet. Maximum data sovereignty.

  • Runs entirely offline at the plant
  • All data, all logs, all evidence stays at the plant
  • USB / LAN-only updates
Best for

MAH chemical plants, MSIHC-regulated units, defence-adjacent supply chain

Customer outcome

Anonymised composite story

14,000 workers, one platformSingle-plant contractor governance scale

Pre-Zentry, the heavy steel plant in eastern India ran contractor governance across 14,000 workers and 87 agencies through a patchwork of three different biometric systems, two HRMS instances, and 40 different paper musters across the shift offices. Pre-DG-inspector audit prep ran for two full weeks every quarter. Post-Zentry, the entire workforce runs on one platform. Per-shift, per-zone, per-agency evidence exports in minutes. Composite story drawn from real deployments. Industry, geography and metrics are representative.

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Metals & Heavy FAQ

Inspector and customer-auditor questions, plainly answered.

Can Zentry handle 10,000+ contractor workers on a single plant?

Yes. Gate is designed for plants with thousands of gate events per shift. Muster view auto-generates CLRA Forms across 50 to 100 agencies at this scale. The platform was built for heavy industry volume from the start.

How does Zentry handle multi-shift, multi-zone access for our steel plant?

Per-shift roster configuration. Per-zone access permissions. Per-worker shift assignment with auto-permission based on shift, zone and current induction.

Does Zentry support hot work, confined space and height work induction?

Yes. Induct supports zone-specific and work-type-specific induction modules: hot work, confined space, height work, electrical work, lockout-tagout. Each with its own validity period and re-induction trigger.

How does Zentry handle 50 to 100 contractor agencies at our heavy plant?

Per-agency configuration in Gate. Per-agency CLRA Form generation in Muster view. Per-agency dashboard in the operations console. Agency change-over handled in minutes.

What's the recommended deployment for a multi-plant heavy industry Group?

Cloud with multi-plant central console for Group-level visibility. Per-plant Hybrid Edge if data residency clauses are involved. Group HR, Group Safety and Group Compliance get cross-plant rollup.

How does Zentry handle inbound raw material gates for our plant?

Drive at the high-volume inbound gate. ANPR plate read for every truck. e-Way Bill match for the consignment. Per-shift, per-supplier, per-material inbound evidence.

Does Zentry produce OSH Code 2020 evidence packs?

Yes. Pre-built export template aligned with the OSH Code 2020 documentation requirement. Per-period, per-plant, per-zone evidence chain.

How long does deployment take for a large heavy industry plant?

A heavy plant Sitewide deployment with thousands of workers and dozens of contractor agencies typically goes live in 8 to 12 weeks. Phased rollout by zone or by shift is the recommended pattern.

How it all connects

One event. Six audit narratives.

Every gate read, every kiosk submission, every certificate validation lands in a single tamper-evident, signed log. From that one event, six modules produce six distinct evidence trails, for six different audits, six different inspectors and six different heads inside the plant.