Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 The present law has been enacted for the purpose of strengthening the supervision and administration of production safety, preventing and reducing safety accidents, defending the safety of life and property of the masses, and promoting the development of economy.
Article 2 The present law shall be applicable to the production safety of the entities that are engaged in to the production and business operation activities within the territory of the People's Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as the production and business operation entities); where there are different provisions in laws or administrative regulations concerning the safety of fire control, road traffic and transportation, railway transportation, water transportation, civil air transportation, etc., such provisions shall be applied.
Article 3 For the administration of production safety, the guidelines of "safety first, focus on prevention" shall be observed.
Article 4 The production and business operation entities shall observe the present law and other relevant laws, regulations concerning the production safety, strengthen the administration of production safety, establish and perfect the system of responsibility for production safety, perfect the conditions for safe production, and ensure the safety in production.
Article 5 The major person-in-charge of the production and business operation entities shall take charge of the overall work of the production safety of the entity concerned.
Article 6 The employees of the production and business operation entities have the right to production safety according to law, and shall also be obliged to perform their obligations regarding to production safety.
Article 7 The trade unions shall organizes the workers to participate in the democratic management and supervision of the production safety of the entity where they work so as to safeguard the lawful rights and interests of the workers in production safety.
Article 8 The State Council and the people's governments at all levels shall strengthen the leadership over the work of production safety, and support and urge the relevant departments to perform their respective duties of supervision and administration of production safety.
The people's governments on the county level and above shall coordinate and handle the serious problems that exist in the supervision and administration of production safety in good time.
Article 9 The department of the State Council in charge of the supervision and administration of production safety implements comprehensive supervision and administration of the work of production safety of the whole country; the people's governments on the county level and above in charge the supervision and administration of production safety shall implement comprehensive supervision and administration of the work of production safety with their respective administrative jurisdictions according to the present law.
The relevant departments of the State Council shall, according to the provisions of the present law and other relevant laws and administrative regulations, implement supervision and administration of the work of production safety within their respective functions and duties; the relevant departments of the people's governments on the county level and above shall, according to the provisions of the present law and other relevant laws and regulations, implement supervision and administration of the work of production safety within their respective functions and duties.
Article 10 The relevant departments of the State Council shall, according to the requirements of guaranteeing production safety, formulate relevant national standards or industrial standards according to law and in good time, and shall make revisions according to the progress of technology and development of economy in good time.
The production and business operation entities must enforce the national standards and industrial standards that have been lawfully formulated for guaranteeing production safety.
Article 11 The people's governments at all levels and the relevant departments thereof shall take various forms to strengthen the publicity of laws and regulations concerning production safety and knowledge about production safety so as to enhance the consciousness of the workers about production safety.
Article 12 The intermediary institutions that are lawfully established for providing technological services in production safety accepts the entrustment of the production and business operation entities to provide technological services in production safety according to the provisions of laws, administrative regulations and code of conduct.
Article 13 The system of affixing responsibilities to production safety accidents is implemented in our country and those who are held to be responsible for production safety accidents shall be affixed legal liabilities according to the present law and other provisions of the relevant laws and regulations.
Article 14 The state encourages and supports the research of production safety science and technology and the popularization and application of advanced technologies of production safety so as to improve the level of production safety.
Article 15 The state rewards those entities and individuals that have made outstanding achievements in the improvement of conditions of production safety, preventing production safety accidents, and rescue and relief in emergencies, etc.
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Production Safety Law Production Safety Law of the Peoples Republic of China (English Version)
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Production Safety Law
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Detail of Production Safety Law
Standard No.
Production Safety Law
English Name
Production Safety Law of the Peoples Republic of China
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 The present law has been enacted for the purpose of strengthening the supervision and administration of production safety, preventing and reducing safety accidents, defending the safety of life and property of the masses, and promoting the development of economy.
Article 2 The present law shall be applicable to the production safety of the entities that are engaged in to the production and business operation activities within the territory of the People's Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as the production and business operation entities); where there are different provisions in laws or administrative regulations concerning the safety of fire control, road traffic and transportation, railway transportation, water transportation, civil air transportation, etc., such provisions shall be applied.
Article 3 For the administration of production safety, the guidelines of "safety first, focus on prevention" shall be observed.
Article 4 The production and business operation entities shall observe the present law and other relevant laws, regulations concerning the production safety, strengthen the administration of production safety, establish and perfect the system of responsibility for production safety, perfect the conditions for safe production, and ensure the safety in production.
Article 5 The major person-in-charge of the production and business operation entities shall take charge of the overall work of the production safety of the entity concerned.
Article 6 The employees of the production and business operation entities have the right to production safety according to law, and shall also be obliged to perform their obligations regarding to production safety.
Article 7 The trade unions shall organizes the workers to participate in the democratic management and supervision of the production safety of the entity where they work so as to safeguard the lawful rights and interests of the workers in production safety.
Article 8 The State Council and the people's governments at all levels shall strengthen the leadership over the work of production safety, and support and urge the relevant departments to perform their respective duties of supervision and administration of production safety.
The people's governments on the county level and above shall coordinate and handle the serious problems that exist in the supervision and administration of production safety in good time.
Article 9 The department of the State Council in charge of the supervision and administration of production safety implements comprehensive supervision and administration of the work of production safety of the whole country; the people's governments on the county level and above in charge the supervision and administration of production safety shall implement comprehensive supervision and administration of the work of production safety with their respective administrative jurisdictions according to the present law.
The relevant departments of the State Council shall, according to the provisions of the present law and other relevant laws and administrative regulations, implement supervision and administration of the work of production safety within their respective functions and duties; the relevant departments of the people's governments on the county level and above shall, according to the provisions of the present law and other relevant laws and regulations, implement supervision and administration of the work of production safety within their respective functions and duties.
Article 10 The relevant departments of the State Council shall, according to the requirements of guaranteeing production safety, formulate relevant national standards or industrial standards according to law and in good time, and shall make revisions according to the progress of technology and development of economy in good time.
The production and business operation entities must enforce the national standards and industrial standards that have been lawfully formulated for guaranteeing production safety.
Article 11 The people's governments at all levels and the relevant departments thereof shall take various forms to strengthen the publicity of laws and regulations concerning production safety and knowledge about production safety so as to enhance the consciousness of the workers about production safety.
Article 12 The intermediary institutions that are lawfully established for providing technological services in production safety accepts the entrustment of the production and business operation entities to provide technological services in production safety according to the provisions of laws, administrative regulations and code of conduct.
Article 13 The system of affixing responsibilities to production safety accidents is implemented in our country and those who are held to be responsible for production safety accidents shall be affixed legal liabilities according to the present law and other provisions of the relevant laws and regulations.
Article 14 The state encourages and supports the research of production safety science and technology and the popularization and application of advanced technologies of production safety so as to improve the level of production safety.
Article 15 The state rewards those entities and individuals that have made outstanding achievements in the improvement of conditions of production safety, preventing production safety accidents, and rescue and relief in emergencies, etc.
