Labor safety refers to the prevention of accidents that endanger the personal safety of workers, such as poisoning, car accident, electric shock, collapse, explosion, fire, falling from a height and mechanical injury. Labor safety, also known as occupational safety, is the right that workers enjoy in professional labor to protect personal safety and avoid occupational injuries.
Article 7 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights stipulates that States parties recognize the right of everyone to just and favourable working conditions, especially to ensure safe and hygienic working conditions. As a state party to the Convention, the state should clearly confirm this right of workers in the form of legislation and provide perfect protection. What needs to be explained here is that labor safety in a broad sense includes personal safety and health. This paper focuses on the personal safety of workers.
Brief introduction of workers:
Laborer is a very broad concept, and all citizens who have the ability to work and earn legal income through labor can be called laborers. It is the general term for people engaged in labor activities. Workers include nationals, foreigners and stateless persons. The subject qualification of workers begins at the minimum employment age of workers (except for special jobs, which is 16 years old) and finally reaches the legal retirement age.
"Laborer" refers to a natural person (Chinese and foreign natural person) who has reached the legal age, has the ability to work, takes a certain social labor income as the main source of livelihood, and works under the management of the employer according to the provisions of the law or contract. However, not all natural persons are lawyers. To become a legal worker, you must have certain conditions and acquire the right to work and the ability to work, which is different from "illegal workers", such as stowaways working.