Work Safety Law of the People's Republic of China (Amended in 2021)
Work Safety Law of the People's Republic of China (Amended in 2021)
Work Safety Law of the People's Republic of China (Amended in 2021)
Order of the President of the People's Republic of China No. 88
June 10, 2021
(Adopted at the 28th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 9th People's Congress on June 29, 2002; amended for the first time according to the Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Amending Certain Laws adopted at the 10th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 10th People's Congress on August 27, 2009; amended for the second time in accordance with the Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Revising the Work Safety Law of the People's Republic of China adopted at the 10th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 12th People's Congress on August 31, 2014; amended for the third time according to the Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Revising the Work Safety Law of the People's Republic of China adopted at the 29th Session of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress on June 10, 2021)
Table of Contents
Chapter I General Principles
Chapter II Guarantee of Safety by Production and Operation Entities
Chapter III Rights and Obligations of Employees
Chapter IV Supervision and Administration of Work Safety
Chapter V Emergency Rescue, Investigation, and Handling of Work Safety Accidents
Chapter VI Legal Liabilities
Chapter VII Supplementary Provisions
Chapter I General Principles
Article 1 This Law is formulated in order to strengthen the work safety efforts, prevent and reduce safety accidents, protect the safety of life and property of the masses, and promote the sustainable and sound development of the economy and society.
Article 2 This Law shall be applicable to the work safety of those entities that engage in production and business operation activities within the territory of the People's Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as production and operation entities). In the event that there are different provisions in the laws or administrative regulations concerning the safety of fire control, road traffic and transportation, railway transportation, water transportation, civil air transportation, as well as nuclear and radiation safety and special-purpose equipment safety, those provisions shall be applied.
Article 3 Work safety efforts shall always be under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.
Work safety efforts shall be people-oriented; it is imperative to put people and life first, give priority to the protection of people's safety, establish the concept of safe development, adhere to the principles of safety first, focusing on prevention and comprehensive management, and resolve major safety risks from the source.
Work safety efforts shall be subject to the requirements that whoever takes charge of industries, business, and production and operation must be responsible for safety; the primary responsibilities of production and operation entities and the regulation responsibilities of the government shall be enforced and reinforced, and a mechanism including the responsibilities of production and operation entities, participation of workers, government regulation, industry self-regulation and public supervision shall be established.
Article 4 Production and operation entities shall abide by this Law and other laws and regulations concerning work safety, and redouble their efforts to ensure work safety by setting up and perfecting the responsibility system for work safety of all employees and rules and regulations on work safety, increasing the input and guarantee of funds, materials, technologies, and personnel in terms of work safety, improving the conditions for work safety, strengthening the development of standards and adoption of information technologies for work safety, building a dual prevention mechanism of level-to-level safety risk management and control and hidden danger identification and management, and perfecting the risk prevention and resolution mechanism, to raise the work safety level and ensure work safety.
Production and operation entities in emerging industries and fields such as the platform economy shall, based on the characteristics of their respective industries and fields, establish, improve and implement a responsibility system for the work safety of all employees, strengthen the education and training on work safety for employees, and perform the obligations related to work safety as stipulated by this Law and other laws and regulations.
Article 5 The major person-in-charge of a production or operation entity shall, as the first person responsible for the work safety of the entity, be fully responsible for the work safety efforts of the entity. Other persons-in-charge shall be responsible for work safety efforts within the scope of their respective duties.
Article 6 All employees of production and operation entities have the right to work safety protection according to the law and shall also be obliged to perform their obligations regarding work safety.
Article 7 The trade unions shall supervise the work safety efforts in accordance with the law.
The trade unions of the production and operation entities shall legally organize their workers to participate in the democratic management and supervision of the work safety of the entities, and safeguard the lawful rights and interests of the workers in respect of work safety. The production and operation entities shall solicit opinions from their trade unions in formulating or revising rules and systems about work safety.
Article 8 Article 8 The State Council and local people's governments at or above the county level shall formulate a work safety plan according to the national economic and social development plan, and organize the implementation thereof. The work safety plan shall be linked to the relevant plans such as the spatial plan for national land.
People's governments at all levels shall strengthen the construction of work safety-related infrastructure and regulatory capacities, with the required funds included in the budget at the corresponding level.
Local people's governments at or above the county level shall organize the relevant departments to establish and improve a safety risk assessment and demonstration mechanism, carry out industry planning and spatial distribution in accordance with the requirements for safety risk management and control, and implement the joint prevention and control of major safety risks of production and operation entities with adjacent locations or similar industries or similar business forms.
Article 9 The State Council and local people's governments at or above the county level shall intensify the leadership of work safety efforts, establish and improve a coordination mechanism for work safety efforts, support, supervise and urge the relevant departments to perform their respective duties of work safety supervision and administration in accordance with the law, and timely coordinate and resolve major issues in regard to work safety supervision and administration.
People's governments at the township or town level, sub-district offices, development zones, industrial parks, port areas, and scenic spots shall clarify the relevant working institutions responsible for work safety supervision and administration and the duties thereof, strengthen the construction of regulatory forces related to work safety, supervise and inspect the work safety status of production and operation entities in their respective administrative areas or jurisdictions as per their respective duties, and assist the relevant departments of people's governments in performing or perform the duties of work safety supervision and administration in accordance with the law.
Article 10 The emergency management department under the State Council shall implement comprehensive supervision and administration of work safety efforts within the whole country in accordance with this Law; emergency management departments of local people's governments at or above the county level shall implement comprehensive supervision and administration of work safety efforts within their respective administrative areas according to this Law.
The departments in charge of transport, housing and urban-rural development, water resources and civil aviation under the State Council shall, according to the provisions of this Law and other relevant laws and administrative regulations, implement supervision and administration of work safety efforts in the relevant industries and fields within the scope of their respective duties; the relevant departments of local people's governments at or above the county level shall, according to the provisions of this Law and other relevant laws and regulations, implement supervision and administration of work safety efforts in the relevant industries and fields within the scope of their respective duties. Where the duties of work safety supervision and administration in emerging industries and fields are not clear, local people's governments at or above the county level shall determine the supervision and administration department in accordance with the principle of similar business.
The emergency management department and the departments implementing the supervision and administration of work safety efforts in the relevant industries and fields are collectively referred to as the departments responsible for work safety supervision and administration. The departments responsible for work safety supervision and administration shall cooperate with each other, make concerted efforts, share information and resources, and strengthen the work safety supervision and administration in accordance with the law.
Article 11 The relevant departments of the State Council shall, according to the requirements of guaranteeing work safety, formulate relevant national standards or industrial standards according to the law and in a timely manner, and shall make revisions according to the progress of technology and the development of economy in a timely manner.
The production and operation entities must enforce the national standards and the industrial standards as lawfully formulated for guaranteeing work safety.
Article 12 The relevant departments under the State Council shall be responsible for the proposal, organization of drafting, solicitation of opinions, and technical review of mandatory national standards for work safety as per the division of duties. The emergency management department under the State Council shall propose the approval plan for compulsory national standards for work safety in a coordinated manner. The standardization administrative department under the State Council shall be responsible for the approval, numbering, external notification, and authorization and approval of the publication of mandatory national standards for work safety. The standardization administrative department under the State Council and the relevant departments shall supervise and inspect the implementation of mandatory national standards for work safety as per their respective statutory duties.
Article 13 The people's governments at all levels and the relevant departments thereof shall take various actions to strengthen the publicity of the laws and regulations concerning work safety and knowledge about work safety so as to improve the work safety awareness of the whole society.
Article 14 Relevant associations shall, according to the laws, administrative regulations and articles of association, provide the production and business entities with services such as information and training in terms of work safety, give play to self-discipline functions, and promote the production and business entities to intensify the work safety administration.
Article 15 The institutions that have been lawfully established for providing technological and managerial services in regard to work safety shall accept the entrustment of the production and operation entities to provide technological and managerial services in regard to work safety according to the provisions of the laws, administrative regulations, and code of conduct.
If any production and operation entity entrusts any institution specified in the preceding paragraph to provide technological and managerial services in regard to work safety, the said entity shall still assume responsibilities for work safety.
Article 16 The system of affixing responsibilities to work safety accidents shall be implemented in our country and entities and persons responsible for work safety accidents shall be subject to legal liabilities according to this Law and the other provisions of the relevant laws and regulations.
Article 17 People's governments at or above the county level shall organize the departments responsible for work safety supervision and administration to compile a list of work safety-related powers and responsibilities in accordance with the law, and make it public for social supervision.
Article 18 The state encourages and supports the research of work safety science and technology and the popularization and application of advanced technologies of work safety so as to improve the level of work safety.
Article 19 The state shall reward those entities and individuals that have made outstanding achievements in the improvement of the conditions of work safety, preventing work safety accidents, offering rescue and relief during emergencies, and etc.
Chapter II Guarantee of Safety by Production and Operation Entities
Article 20 The production and operation entities shall be informed of the conditions for safe production as provided in this Law and other relevant laws, administrative regulations, national standards, and industrial standards. Any entity that has not been informed of the conditions for safe production may not engage in production and business operation activities.
Article 21 The major person-in-charge of a production or operation entity shall have the following duties in regard to work safety efforts of the entity:
1. establishing, improving and implementing the responsibility system for work safety of all employees of the entity, and strengthening the development of standards for work safety;
2. organizing the formulation and implementation of work safety-related rules and systems and operating procedures of the entity;
3. organizing the formulation and implementation of work safety education and training plans of the entity;
4. ensuring the effective execution of input in regard to work safety of the entity;
5. organizing the establishment and implementation of the dual prevention mechanism of level-to-level safety risk management and control and hidden danger identification and management, supervising, urging and inspecting work safety efforts of the entity, and eliminating the potential for work safety accidents in a timely manner;
6. organizing the formulation and execution of emergency rescue plans for work safety accidents of the entity; and
7. reporting work safety accidents truthfully and in a timely manner.
Article 22 The responsibility system for work safety of all employees for a production or operation entity shall specify the contents such as the responsible person, scope of responsibility and appraisal standards of each post.
The production and operation entities shall establish corresponding mechanisms, intensify the supervision and appraisal over the implementation of the aforesaid responsibility system, and guarantee the implementation of such system.
Article 23 The capital investment necessary for the conditions of safe production in regard to production and business entities shall be guaranteed by the decision-making department and major persons-in-charge of the production and operation entities or the investors of the private enterprises who shall be responsible for the aftermath in the event of insufficient capital investments as necessary for safe production.
Relevant production and operation entities shall, as required, withdraw and use work safety expenses to specially improve work safety conditions. Work safety expenses shall be included into the costs as actually incurred. Specific measures for withdrawal, use and supervision and administration of work safety expenses shall be formulated by the finance department under the State Council in conjunction with the emergency management department of the State Council after seeking opinions from the relevant departments of the State Council.
Article 24 Mine, metal smelting, construction and transport entities as well as the entities engaging in the production, sales, storage, loading and unloading of hazardous substances shall establish a work safety management office or be staffed with full-time work safety management personnel.
With regard to any production and operation entity not covered in the preceding paragraph, if such entity has more than 100 employees, it shall establish a work safety management office or be staffed with full-time work safety management personnel. If such entity has no more than 100 employees, it shall be staffed with full-time or part-time work safety management personnel.
Article 25 The work safety management office and work safety management personnel of a production or operation entity shall fulfill the following duties:
1. organizing or participating in the drafting of work safety-related rules and systems, operating procedures, and emergency rescue plans for work safety accidents of the entity;
2. organizing or participating in the work safety education and training of the entity, and truthfully recording the information on the work safety education and training;
3. organizing the identification and assessment of hazards installations, and supervising and urging the implementation of safety administrative measures for major hazard installations of the entity;
4. organizing or participating in the emergency rescue drill of the entity;
5. examining the work safety conditions of the entity, inspecting potential work safety accidents in a timely manner, and putting forward suggestions on the improvement of work safety administration;
6. stopping and correcting the acts of instructing against rules, exacting dangerous operation and violating operating procedures; and
7. supervising and urging the implementation of work safety rectification measures of the entity.
The production or operation entity may set up a full-time person-in-charge of work safety to assist the major person-in-charge of the entity to perform the duties of work safety administration.
Article 26 The work safety management office and work safety management personnel of a production or operation entity shall dedicate themselves to their duties, and fulfill their responsibilities in accordance with the law.
When making an operation decision involving work safety, the production or operation entity shall solicit opinions form its work safety management office and work safety personnel.
The production or operation entity shall not reduce treatments such as salaries and benefits of its work safety management personnel or cancel the labor contract concluded with them due to performance of their responsibility in accordance with the law.
The appointment and dismissal of the work safety management personnel of an entity engaging in the production or storage of hazardous substances or mining or metal smelting shall be notified to the competent departments responsible for work safety supervision and administration.
Article 27 The major persons-in-charge and the personnel for the administration of work safety for the production and operation entities must have a knowledge and management capacity that matches the production and business operation activities of the concerned entities.
The persons-in-charge and the work safety management personnel of an entity engaging in the production, sales, storage, loading and unloading of hazardous substances or of a mining, metal smelting, construction or transport entity shall pass the appraisal concerning work safety knowledge and management capacity conducted by the competent department responsible for work safety.
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Order of the President of the People's Republic of China No. 88
June 10, 2021
(Adopted at the 28th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 9th People's Congress on June 29, 2002; amended for the first time according to the Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Amending Certain Laws adopted at the 10th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 10th People's Congress on August 27, 2009; amended for the second time in accordance with the Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Revising the Work Safety Law of the People's Republic of China adopted at the 10th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 12th People's Congress on August 31, 2014; amended for the third time according to the Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Revising the Work Safety Law of the People's Republic of China adopted at the 29th Session of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress on June 10, 2021)
Table of Contents
Chapter I General Principles
Chapter II Guarantee of Safety by Production and Operation Entities
Chapter III Rights and Obligations of Employees
Chapter IV Supervision and Administration of Work Safety
Chapter V Emergency Rescue, Investigation, and Handling of Work Safety Accidents
Chapter VI Legal Liabilities
Chapter VII Supplementary Provisions
Chapter I General Principles
Article 1 This Law is formulated in order to strengthen the work safety efforts, prevent and reduce safety accidents, protect the safety of life and property of the masses, and promote the sustainable and sound development of the economy and society.
Article 2 This Law shall be applicable to the work safety of those entities that engage in production and business operation activities within the territory of the People's Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as production and operation entities). In the event that there are different provisions in the laws or administrative regulations concerning the safety of fire control, road traffic and transportation, railway transportation, water transportation, civil air transportation, as well as nuclear and radiation safety and special-purpose equipment safety, those provisions shall be applied.
Article 3 Work safety efforts shall always be under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.
Work safety efforts shall be people-oriented; it is imperative to put people and life first, give priority to the protection of people's safety, establish the concept of safe development, adhere to the principles of safety first, focusing on prevention and comprehensive management, and resolve major safety risks from the source.
Work safety efforts shall be subject to the requirements that whoever takes charge of industries, business, and production and operation must be responsible for safety; the primary responsibilities of production and operation entities and the regulation responsibilities of the government shall be enforced and reinforced, and a mechanism including the responsibilities of production and operation entities, participation of workers, government regulation, industry self-regulation and public supervision shall be established.
Article 4 Production and operation entities shall abide by this Law and other laws and regulations concerning work safety, and redouble their efforts to ensure work safety by setting up and perfecting the responsibility system for work safety of all employees and rules and regulations on work safety, increasing the input and guarantee of funds, materials, technologies, and personnel in terms of work safety, improving the conditions for work safety, strengthening the development of standards and adoption of information technologies for work safety, building a dual prevention mechanism of level-to-level safety risk management and control and hidden danger identification and management, and perfecting the risk prevention and resolution mechanism, to raise the work safety level and ensure work safety.
Production and operation entities in emerging industries and fields such as the platform economy shall, based on the characteristics of their respective industries and fields, establish, improve and implement a responsibility system for the work safety of all employees, strengthen the education and training on work safety for employees, and perform the obligations related to work safety as stipulated by this Law and other laws and regulations.
Article 5 The major person-in-charge of a production or operation entity shall, as the first person responsible for the work safety of the entity, be fully responsible for the work safety efforts of the entity. Other persons-in-charge shall be responsible for work safety efforts within the scope of their respective duties.
Article 6 All employees of production and operation entities have the right to work safety protection according to the law and shall also be obliged to perform their obligations regarding work safety.
Article 7 The trade unions shall supervise the work safety efforts in accordance with the law.
The trade unions of the production and operation entities shall legally organize their workers to participate in the democratic management and supervision of the work safety of the entities, and safeguard the lawful rights and interests of the workers in respect of work safety. The production and operation entities shall solicit opinions from their trade unions in formulating or revising rules and systems about work safety.
Article 8 Article 8 The State Council and local people's governments at or above the county level shall formulate a work safety plan according to the national economic and social development plan, and organize the implementation thereof. The work safety plan shall be linked to the relevant plans such as the spatial plan for national land.
People's governments at all levels shall strengthen the construction of work safety-related infrastructure and regulatory capacities, with the required funds included in the budget at the corresponding level.
Local people's governments at or above the county level shall organize the relevant departments to establish and improve a safety risk assessment and demonstration mechanism, carry out industry planning and spatial distribution in accordance with the requirements for safety risk management and control, and implement the joint prevention and control of major safety risks of production and operation entities with adjacent locations or similar industries or similar business forms.
Article 9 The State Council and local people's governments at or above the county level shall intensify the leadership of work safety efforts, establish and improve a coordination mechanism for work safety efforts, support, supervise and urge the relevant departments to perform their respective duties of work safety supervision and administration in accordance with the law, and timely coordinate and resolve major issues in regard to work safety supervision and administration.
People's governments at the township or town level, sub-district offices, development zones, industrial parks, port areas, and scenic spots shall clarify the relevant working institutions responsible for work safety supervision and administration and the duties thereof, strengthen the construction of regulatory forces related to work safety, supervise and inspect the work safety status of production and operation entities in their respective administrative areas or jurisdictions as per their respective duties, and assist the relevant departments of people's governments in performing or perform the duties of work safety supervision and administration in accordance with the law.
Article 10 The emergency management department under the State Council shall implement comprehensive supervision and administration of work safety efforts within the whole country in accordance with this Law; emergency management departments of local people's governments at or above the county level shall implement comprehensive supervision and administration of work safety efforts within their respective administrative areas according to this Law.
The departments in charge of transport, housing and urban-rural development, water resources and civil aviation under the State Council shall, according to the provisions of this Law and other relevant laws and administrative regulations, implement supervision and administration of work safety efforts in the relevant industries and fields within the scope of their respective duties; the relevant departments of local people's governments at or above the county level shall, according to the provisions of this Law and other relevant laws and regulations, implement supervision and administration of work safety efforts in the relevant industries and fields within the scope of their respective duties. Where the duties of work safety supervision and administration in emerging industries and fields are not clear, local people's governments at or above the county level shall determine the supervision and administration department in accordance with the principle of similar business.
The emergency management department and the departments implementing the supervision and administration of work safety efforts in the relevant industries and fields are collectively referred to as the departments responsible for work safety supervision and administration. The departments responsible for work safety supervision and administration shall cooperate with each other, make concerted efforts, share information and resources, and strengthen the work safety supervision and administration in accordance with the law.
Article 11 The relevant departments of the State Council shall, according to the requirements of guaranteeing work safety, formulate relevant national standards or industrial standards according to the law and in a timely manner, and shall make revisions according to the progress of technology and the development of economy in a timely manner.
The production and operation entities must enforce the national standards and the industrial standards as lawfully formulated for guaranteeing work safety.
Article 12 The relevant departments under the State Council shall be responsible for the proposal, organization of drafting, solicitation of opinions, and technical review of mandatory national standards for work safety as per the division of duties. The emergency management department under the State Council shall propose the approval plan for compulsory national standards for work safety in a coordinated manner. The standardization administrative department under the State Council shall be responsible for the approval, numbering, external notification, and authorization and approval of the publication of mandatory national standards for work safety. The standardization administrative department under the State Council and the relevant departments shall supervise and inspect the implementation of mandatory national standards for work safety as per their respective statutory duties.
Article 13 The people's governments at all levels and the relevant departments thereof shall take various actions to strengthen the publicity of the laws and regulations concerning work safety and knowledge about work safety so as to improve the work safety awareness of the whole society.
Article 14 Relevant associations shall, according to the laws, administrative regulations and articles of association, provide the production and business entities with services such as information and training in terms of work safety, give play to self-discipline functions, and promote the production and business entities to intensify the work safety administration.
Article 15 The institutions that have been lawfully established for providing technological and managerial services in regard to work safety shall accept the entrustment of the production and operation entities to provide technological and managerial services in regard to work safety according to the provisions of the laws, administrative regulations, and code of conduct.
If any production and operation entity entrusts any institution specified in the preceding paragraph to provide technological and managerial services in regard to work safety, the said entity shall still assume responsibilities for work safety.
Article 16 The system of affixing responsibilities to work safety accidents shall be implemented in our country and entities and persons responsible for work safety accidents shall be subject to legal liabilities according to this Law and the other provisions of the relevant laws and regulations.
Article 17 People's governments at or above the county level shall organize the departments responsible for work safety supervision and administration to compile a list of work safety-related powers and responsibilities in accordance with the law, and make it public for social supervision.
Article 18 The state encourages and supports the research of work safety science and technology and the popularization and application of advanced technologies of work safety so as to improve the level of work safety.
Article 19 The state shall reward those entities and individuals that have made outstanding achievements in the improvement of the conditions of work safety, preventing work safety accidents, offering rescue and relief during emergencies, and etc.
Chapter II Guarantee of Safety by Production and Operation Entities
Article 20 The production and operation entities shall be informed of the conditions for safe production as provided in this Law and other relevant laws, administrative regulations, national standards, and industrial standards. Any entity that has not been informed of the conditions for safe production may not engage in production and business operation activities.
Article 21 The major person-in-charge of a production or operation entity shall have the following duties in regard to work safety efforts of the entity:
1. establishing, improving and implementing the responsibility system for work safety of all employees of the entity, and strengthening the development of standards for work safety;
2. organizing the formulation and implementation of work safety-related rules and systems and operating procedures of the entity;
3. organizing the formulation and implementation of work safety education and training plans of the entity;
4. ensuring the effective execution of input in regard to work safety of the entity;
5. organizing the establishment and implementation of the dual prevention mechanism of level-to-level safety risk management and control and hidden danger identification and management, supervising, urging and inspecting work safety efforts of the entity, and eliminating the potential for work safety accidents in a timely manner;
6. organizing the formulation and execution of emergency rescue plans for work safety accidents of the entity; and
7. reporting work safety accidents truthfully and in a timely manner.
Article 22 The responsibility system for work safety of all employees for a production or operation entity shall specify the contents such as the responsible person, scope of responsibility and appraisal standards of each post.
The production and operation entities shall establish corresponding mechanisms, intensify the supervision and appraisal over the implementation of the aforesaid responsibility system, and guarantee the implementation of such system.
Article 23 The capital investment necessary for the conditions of safe production in regard to production and business entities shall be guaranteed by the decision-making department and major persons-in-charge of the production and operation entities or the investors of the private enterprises who shall be responsible for the aftermath in the event of insufficient capital investments as necessary for safe production.
Relevant production and operation entities shall, as required, withdraw and use work safety expenses to specially improve work safety conditions. Work safety expenses shall be included into the costs as actually incurred. Specific measures for withdrawal, use and supervision and administration of work safety expenses shall be formulated by the finance department under the State Council in conjunction with the emergency management department of the State Council after seeking opinions from the relevant departments of the State Council.
Article 24 Mine, metal smelting, construction and transport entities as well as the entities engaging in the production, sales, storage, loading and unloading of hazardous substances shall establish a work safety management office or be staffed with full-time work safety management personnel.
With regard to any production and operation entity not covered in the preceding paragraph, if such entity has more than 100 employees, it shall establish a work safety management office or be staffed with full-time work safety management personnel. If such entity has no more than 100 employees, it shall be staffed with full-time or part-time work safety management personnel.
Article 25 The work safety management office and work safety management personnel of a production or operation entity shall fulfill the following duties:
1. organizing or participating in the drafting of work safety-related rules and systems, operating procedures, and emergency rescue plans for work safety accidents of the entity;
2. organizing or participating in the work safety education and training of the entity, and truthfully recording the information on the work safety education and training;
3. organizing the identification and assessment of hazards installations, and supervising and urging the implementation of safety administrative measures for major hazard installations of the entity;
4. organizing or participating in the emergency rescue drill of the entity;
5. examining the work safety conditions of the entity, inspecting potential work safety accidents in a timely manner, and putting forward suggestions on the improvement of work safety administration;
6. stopping and correcting the acts of instructing against rules, exacting dangerous operation and violating operating procedures; and
7. supervising and urging the implementation of work safety rectification measures of the entity.
The production or operation entity may set up a full-time person-in-charge of work safety to assist the major person-in-charge of the entity to perform the duties of work safety administration.
Article 26 The work safety management office and work safety management personnel of a production or operation entity shall dedicate themselves to their duties, and fulfill their responsibilities in accordance with the law.
When making an operation decision involving work safety, the production or operation entity shall solicit opinions form its work safety management office and work safety personnel.
The production or operation entity shall not reduce treatments such as salaries and benefits of its work safety management personnel or cancel the labor contract concluded with them due to performance of their responsibility in accordance with the law.
The appointment and dismissal of the work safety management personnel of an entity engaging in the production or storage of hazardous substances or mining or metal smelting shall be notified to the competent departments responsible for work safety supervision and administration.
Article 27 The major persons-in-charge and the personnel for the administration of work safety for the production and operation entities must have a knowledge and management capacity that matches the production and business operation activities of the concerned entities.
The persons-in-charge and the work safety management personnel of an entity engaging in the production, sales, storage, loading and unloading of hazardous substances or of a mining, metal smelting, construction or transport entity shall pass the appraisal concerning work safety knowledge and management capacity conducted by the competent department responsible for work safety.
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