Who is the main person responsible for safety production
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Safety production responsibilities of the principal responsible persons of production and business operations Article 18 of the Safety Production Law: The principal responsible persons of production and business operations shall bear the following responsibilities for the safety production work of their respective units: (1) Establishing and improving the safety production responsibility system within the unit； (II) Organize the formulation of the unit’s safety production rules and regulations as well as operating procedures ； (III) Organize the formulation and implementation of the unit’s safety production education and training plans ； (IV) Ensure the effective implementation of safety investments in the unit ； (5) Supervise and inspect the unit’s work related to safe production, and promptly eliminate potential hazards that could lead to production safety accidents ； (VI) Organize the formulation and implementation of emergency rescue plans for production safety accidents within the unit ； (7) Report production safety accidents in a timely and truthful manner.
1. Those in charge of production must also be responsible for safety; the person in charge bears the responsibility – this is a fundamental principle that has been adhered to in China’s work related to work safety for a long time. The principal responsible person of a production and operation entity, as the main leader of the entity, is fully accountable for its production and operation activities, and must also be responsible for the entity’s work related to safety in production. The principal responsible persons of production and business operations have the responsibility and obligation to ensure safe production within their organizations, while also carrying out normal production and business activities. Adhering to the people-oriented principle and in line with the requirements of safety development strategies, they must earnestly implement the policy of \"safety first, prevention first, and comprehensive management,\" properly handling the relationship between safety and development, as well as between safety and efficiency. Production must be carried out in a safe manner; production should not take place if it is unsafe. Therefore, this article specifies the responsibilities of the principal responsible persons of production and business operations entities regarding safety production within their respective organizations. The term \"principal person in charge\" as mentioned here includes the legal representative of corporate entities, such as the chairman of a limited company or joint stock company, as well as the general manager who is fully responsible for the day-to-day operational activities of such entities. It also refers to the top-level leaders of unincorporated entities who, in accordance with laws, administrative regulations, and relevant provisions, exercise authority on behalf of the entity, such as factory managers or directors.
It is important to understand what is meant by the principal responsible person; this generally refers to the leader who plays a decision-making role in the production and operation unit, with the specific identity to be determined based on actual circumstances: 1. The principal responsible person must be the key decision-maker in the production and business operations of the entity, holding ultimate authority over those operations including matters related to safety in production, and providing overall leadership over them. For example, if major business decisions of a production and operation entity are to be made by the board of directors, then the person in charge of the board of directors, as well as the person in charge of the investors’ group that invests in such entity, must be the ones who actually lead and direct the day-to-day operations of the entity. The person in charge must be the decision-maker who actually oversees these operations. Under normal circumstances, the person in charge of a production or business operation entity is its legal representative. However, in some corporate entities, especially in some very large conglomerates, the legal representative is often the same person as that of their subsidiaries. This person is not responsible for the daily operational activities or safety measures of the enterprise, and they usually reside in a different location. In such cases, those who are truly responsible for organizing and leading production and business operations as well as ensuring safe production are not necessarily the chairman of the group, but rather the general manager or someone else. There are also some production and operation units that do not possess the status of legal persons; such units do not need nor have a legal representative, and their main responsible persons are the owners of their assets or those in charge of production and operations. 3. The principal person in charge must be a decision-maker capable of assuming overall responsibility for safety production within the production and operation entity. When the chairman or general manager is absent for an extended period (unable to carry out overall leadership duties due to illness, study, etc.), a deputy or another person authorized or appointed by them will take charge of all aspects of the operations of the enterprise. In cases where safety violations or production accidents occur under such circumstances and accountability is required, it would be unreasonable and difficult to hold the chairman or general manager who is absent for an extended period accountable; instead, legal responsibility must be imposed on the actual person who was authorized or appointed to oversee the operations.
Although the definition is clear, many production managers do not study it and act blindly. I once saw with my own eyes a chairman point at the safety director during a production scheduling meeting and say: If there’s an accident related to production safety and the police arrive, you’ll be the first one to end up in prison.
If that’s the case, then my monthly salary of just a few thousand yuan isn’t even enough to cover the fines and losses from going to jail
Provisions on the Primary Responsibilities for Work Safety of Production and Business Entities in Shandong Province – Provincial Order No. 311. The term \"principal responsible persons\" as referred to in these provisions denotes the chairman, general manager, investors who operate on an individual basis, as well as other individuals who exercise actual control over the production and business entity. Of course, this is just a reference.
Aren’t it usually the people in charge of production at the company who handle it? But in the field of safety management, aren’t it always the full-time supervisors who are away from their posts for long periods, with unfortunate deputy supervisors having to take charge of the work, only to end up getting caught when something goes wrong?\ud83d\ude02
Who has the final say in the company, who is in charge. The actual controller of the company
In the event of an accident in a workshop like this, none of those involved – the team leader, the safety officer, the workshop supervisor, the company’s vice president, the company’s general manager (the legal representative), or the actual person in charge who provides the funding – can escape responsibility
So managing safety is tough indeed – one has to truly have the mindset of a drug dealer, earn money as if selling cheap goods, and be able to do everything related to it, yet still lack support from management while facing resistance from employees. Uncomfortable