[Interpretation of the Special Equipment Safety Law] Article 66

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Article 66 The department responsible for the safety supervision and management of special equipment shall conduct supervision and inspections on entities engaged in the production, operation, and use of such equipment, as well as on inspection and testing institutions. It shall keep records of the contents of each inspection, the problems identified, and the actions taken to address them; these records shall be signed by the special equipment safety inspectors who carried out the inspections and by the relevant officials from the inspected entities before being filed. If the relevant person in charge of the inspected unit refuses to sign, the special equipment safety inspectors shall record the situation. Interpretation of the provision: This article stipulates that the departments responsible for the safety supervision and management of special equipment must keep written records when carrying out inspections and supervision. 1. The departments responsible for the safety supervision and management of special equipment must keep records when carrying out inspections and supervision. The records of safety inspections and supervision for special equipment serve as a record of the work carried out in these inspections and supervision efforts, as well as a record of the status of the entities being inspected. It can serve as documentary evidence, objectively and truthfully documenting the situations regarding safety inspections of special equipment. It can provide an objective basis for future law enforcement actions or decisions regarding administrative sanctions, and it can also serve as useful proof in potential administrative reviews or lawsuits. The records of safety inspections and supervision for special equipment should document the time, location, contents of the inspections, the problems identified, and the actions taken to address them. For example, matters such as whether safety inspectors issued orders to eliminate potential hazards identified during inspections, and whether the production and using units corrected those hazards on the spot, must all be recorded in detail and truthfully, with the relevant records to be properly kept. II. To ensure the validity of supervision and inspection records, the regulations require relevant personnel to sign the records. The personnel recorded in the supervision and inspection records are, first, the special equipment safety inspectors who participated in the supervision and inspection ； The second are the relevant responsible persons of the inspected unit. The signature should be made on the spot; however, if the relevant responsible person of the inspected unit refuses to sign, the special equipment safety inspectors shall record the situation, which shall not affect the validity of the inspection records.