The Law on Work Safety aims at preventing and reducing production safety accidents, protecting the legitimate rights and interests of employees and promoting sustained and healthy economic and social development.
First, life safety and physical health are given priority.
The Law on Work Safety clarifies the priority of employees' life safety and physical health, and requires production and business units to abide by laws and regulations on work safety, establish and improve the responsibility system for work safety, and ensure the safety and health of employees.
Second, the guarantee of safe production conditions
Production and business units must provide employees with labor protection articles that meet national standards or industry standards, and supervise and educate employees to wear and use them correctly. At the same time, the production and business units shall regularly maintain, maintain and test the safety facilities to ensure their normal operation and provide a safe working environment for employees.
Third, the training and education of employees.
The Law on Safety in Production requires production and business units to educate and train employees in safety in production, so as to ensure that employees have the necessary knowledge of safety in production, be familiar with relevant rules and regulations on safety in production, and master safety in production skills.
Four. Rights and obligations of employees
Employees have the right to know the risk factors, preventive measures and emergency measures in their workplaces and posts, and have the right to make suggestions on the safety production of their own units. At the same time, employees should abide by the rules and regulations of production safety and operating procedures, obey management, correctly wear and use labor protection articles, receive education and training in production safety, master the knowledge of production safety required for their own work, improve their skills in production safety, and enhance their ability in accident prevention and emergency response.
To sum up:
The Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on Work Safety focuses on ensuring the life safety and physical health of employees. By defining the conditions for work safety, strengthening the training and education of employees, and safeguarding the rights and obligations of employees, the level of work safety is comprehensively improved to ensure the safety and health of employees.
Legal basis:
Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on Work Safety
Article 3 provides that:
Safety in production should be people-oriented, adhere to safe development, adhere to the policy of safety first, prevention first and comprehensive management, strengthen and implement the main responsibility of production and business units, and establish a mechanism for production and business units to be responsible, employees to participate, government supervision, industry self-discipline and social supervision.
Article 4 provides that:
Production and business operation entities must abide by this Law and other laws and regulations concerning safety in production, strengthen the management of safety in production, establish and improve the responsibility system for safety in production and safety rules and regulations, improve the conditions for safety in production, promote the standardization of safety in production, raise the level of safety in production and ensure safety in production.
Article 5 provides that:
The main person in charge of the production and business operation entity is fully responsible for the safety production work of the entity.
Article 2 1 stipulates that:
The main person in charge of the production and business operation entity shall bear the following responsibilities for the safety production of the entity:
(a) to establish and implement the responsibility system for safety production of all employees of the unit and strengthen the standardization of safety production;
(two) to organize the formulation and implementation of the safety production rules and regulations and operating procedures of the unit;
(three) to organize the formulation and implementation of the unit's safety production education and training plan;
(four) to ensure the effective implementation of the unit's investment in production safety;
(five) to organize the establishment and implementation of the double prevention mechanism of safety risk classification control and hidden danger investigation and management, supervise and inspect the safety production work of the unit, and eliminate the hidden dangers of production safety accidents in time;
(six) to organize the formulation and implementation of the emergency rescue plan for production safety accidents in this unit;
(seven) timely and truthfully report the production safety accidents.