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China Seeking Public Opinion on Work Safety Law Implementation Provisions

On Sep 11, 2015, the State Administration of Work Safety (SAWS) issued Several Provisions on Implementing China’s Work Safety Law for public consultation. The Provisions, consisting of 36 articles, further specifies business entities’ liability, internal responsibility system, law enforcement rules of the work safety administrations and the punitive measures.

It is required in the Provisions that hazardous chemical manufacturers and operators should:

  1. Establish work safety committee

  2. Develop and strengthen work safety standardization*

  3. Set up a work safety management division:

    • Employers ≤  100: Recommended, but should staff at least 1 fulltime work safety supervisor

    • 100 < Employers ≤ 200: Required, and should staff at least 2 fulltime work safety supervisors

    • Employers > 200, Required, and the fulltime work safety supervisors should account for at least 2% of the total employers.

  4. Ensure 20% of the work safety supervisors are registered safety engineers, and there should be at least 1 registered safety engineer.

  5. Buy the liability insurance of work safety.

* Work safety standardization is the basis of the tiered approach to supervision. Work safety standardization has 3 levels, of which Level 1 ranks the top. Level 1 &2 Enterprises can renew related administrative licenses through very simple application procedures if they don’t have any history of deadly accidents. The detailed implementing mechanism and practices are left to be developed by work safety administrations at provincial level and should be adapted to the actual needs.

Any revision advice and suggestion can be sent to aqfg@chinasafety.gov.cn.

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