Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Law on Work Safety.
Article 1 This Law is formulated with a view to strengthening production safety, preventing and reducing production safety accidents, ensuring the safety of people's lives and property, and promoting sustained and healthy economic and social development.
Article 2 This Law is applicable to the safe production of units engaged in production and business operation in People's Republic of China (PRC) (hereinafter referred to as production and business operation units); Where relevant laws and administrative regulations have other provisions on fire safety and road traffic safety, railway traffic safety, water traffic safety, civil aviation safety, nuclear and radiation safety and special equipment safety, such provisions shall prevail.
Article 3 Work 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 in which production and business units are responsible, employees participate, government supervision, industry self-discipline and social supervision.
Article 4 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.