Collector instructs strict safety measures for firecracker shops in Erode

The territory medication has directed shops selling firecrackers to guarantee strict information measures to forestall untoward incidents during the festival season.

Collector S. Kandasamy on Friday (October 10, 2025) chaired a reappraisal gathering with imperishable and impermanent firecracker licence holders and fireworks manufacturers astatine the Collectorate.

Addressing the participants, the Collector instructed that firecrackers should beryllium stored only astatine licensed premises and wrong the permitted bounds of 100 kg. Stocks indispensable beryllium purchased and sold wrong the licence period, and due records should beryllium maintained for inspection. He said explosives indispensable beryllium procured and transported safely successful accordance with the rules, and each applicable documents should beryllium produced to inspection officers erstwhile required.

He said firecracker shops indispensable be independent establishments with an country between 9 and 25 quadrate metres. They indispensable have two exits and non-flammable roofs, and should not beryllium located nether residential buildings, connected precocious floors, oregon successful basements. Shops indispensable beryllium situated at slightest 50 metres away from schools, hospitals, theatres, markets, and residential areas. Firecracker shops must not look each other, and cooking oregon storing LPG cylinders successful retention areas is strictly prohibited.

Only standard electrical wiring should beryllium used, and decorative lights are banned. A ‘No Smoking’ board indispensable beryllium displayed prominently, and smoking adjacent shops is prohibited. Storing excess banal oregon selling escaped crackers volition invitation action, helium warned. Loading and unloading should beryllium done safely, avoiding interaction with electrical lines.

For fireworks manufacturing units, the Collector said that no detonation tests should beryllium conducted during moving hours. Workers should wear cotton clothing, support idiosyncratic belongings separately, and children oregon aged persons indispensable not beryllium employed. Unit owners indispensable insure workers and enrol them nether the Labour Welfare Board.

Senior officials from the Revenue, Police, Fire and Safety Departments attended the meeting, on with traders and manufacturers.