How is your training for high-risk enterprises going?

Thread Content

Below are the laws and regulations regarding training for employees in high-risk enterprises: I wonder how your company is doing in this regard? 1. The principal persons in charge of high-risk enterprises and safety production management personnel must obtain safety qualification certificates before taking up their positions. Safety qualification certificates are issued by safety supervision and inspection agencies at various levels or coal mine safety supervision departments. They have a uniform format nationwide, are valid throughout the country, and have a validity period of 3 years. Basis: 1. Paragraph 2 of Article 20 of the ‹Work Safety Law› stipulates that the principal persons in charge of high-risk enterprises and work safety management personnel must pass assessments conducted by the relevant competent authorities regarding their work safety knowledge and management capabilities before they can assume their positions. 2. Paragraph 2 of Article 6 of the ‹Regulations on Safety Training for Production and Business Entities› (**Order No. 3 issued by the State Administration for Work Safety**) stipulates that the principal persons in charge and safety management personnel of high-risk enterprises such as coal mines, non-coal mines, **chemical industries, and fireworks manufacturing industries must receive specialized safety training. They can assume their positions only after passing assessments conducted by the work safety supervision and inspection authorities to evaluate their knowledge of work safety and their management capabilities, and obtaining a safety qualification certificate. 3. Article 35, Paragraph 1 of the ‹Measures for the Administration of Work Safety Training› (Order No. 44 issued by the State Administration of Work Safety) stipulates that the validity period of a work safety qualification certificate is 3 years. If an extension is required upon the expiration of the validity period, an application for the extension procedure shall be submitted to the original issuing authority 30 days before the expiration date. Article 36 stipulates that the safety qualification certificates for safety production management personnel are valid nationwide. 4. 〘**Outline for Safety Training and Assessment Standards for Safety Management Personnel in Chemical Production Units〙 (AQ/T 3030—2010) 4.4.1** The training time required for safety management qualification of safety management personnel in chemical production units is no less than 56 class hours. 4.4.2** The annual retraining time for such safety management personnel is no less than 16 class hours. II. Personnel engaged in special operations must obtain a special operations permit before they can start working. The certificate is issued by the relevant safety supervision and inspection authorities or coal mine safety regulatory bodies. It has a uniform format across the country, is valid nationwide, and has a validity period of 6 years; it needs to be renewed every 3 years. Basis: Article 23 of the ‹Work Safety Law› stipulates that special operation personnel in production and business operations must receive specialized safety training in accordance with **relevant regulations and obtain a special operation qualification certificate before they can engage in such work. Article 20 of the ‹Regulations on Safety Training for Production and Business Operations Entities› (Order No. 3 issued by the State Administration for Work Safety) stipulates that special operation personnel in production and business operations entities must receive specialized safety training in accordance with relevant laws and regulations; only after passing the assessments and obtaining the qualification certificates for special operation tasks may they start working. Article 19 of the ‹Regulations on the Management of Safety Technology Training and Assessment for Special Operations Personnel› (Order No. 30 issued by the State Administration of Work Safety) stipulates that the validity period of a special operations qualification certificate is 6 years, and it is valid nationwide. Article 21: The special operation permit shall be renewed every 3 years. For special operation personnel who have been engaged in their respective occupations continuously for more than 10 years within the validity period of their special operation certificates, and who strictly comply with relevant laws and regulations on work safety, with the approval of the authority that originally issued the certificate or the authority responsible for certification in the place where they work, the renewal interval for such certificates can be extended to once every 6 years. 3 III. Other workers (including team leaders and migrant workers) must possess valid safety training certificates. The certificates are issued by the relevant production and operation units or training institutions, and their format is determined by the department responsible for training and assessment. Basis: Article 21 of the ‹Work Safety Law› stipulates that production and business operation entities shall provide safety education and training to their employees to ensure that they possess the necessary knowledge regarding work safety. Workers who have not passed safety production education and training shall not be allowed to take up their posts. Article 12, Paragraph 2 of the ‹Regulations on Safety Training for Production and Business Operations Entities› (**Order No. 3 issued by the State Administration for Work Safety**) stipulates that the principal persons in charge and safety production management personnel of other production and business operations entities, after completing training at training institutions recognized by the work safety supervision and inspection authorities as having the appropriate qualifications, shall be issued corresponding certificates of completion of training by such institutions. Article 15: For new employees hired by production and business units, the pre-job training duration shall not be less than 24 class hours. New employees in production and operation units such as coal mines, non-coal mines, hazardous chemicals, and fireworks must receive safety training for no less than 72 hours, and must undergo retraining for no less than 20 hours each year. Paragraph 6 of Article 21 stipulates that the safety training for other employees of production and business operations entities shall be organized and carried out by such entities. 3. Paragraph 5 of Article 30 of the ‹Measures for the Administration of Work Safety Training› (Order No. 44 issued by the State Administration of Work Safety) stipulates that the assessment of other employees in production and business operations shall be carried out by such entities themselves, in accordance with the assessment standards published by the provincial work safety supervision and management departments. 4. The ‹Opinions on Strengthening Safety Production Training for Migrant Workers› (An Jian Zong Pei Xun [2006] No. 228) stipulate that enterprises and training institutions shall conduct strict assessments of the migrant workers who participate in the training, and issue certificates of completion for those who pass the assessment. 5. The ’Guiding Opinions of the Office of the State Council Safety Committee on Implementing the Spirit of the State Council’s [Notice] to Strengthen Safety Training for Enterprise Team Leaders’’ (Safety Committee Office [2010] No. 27) require that enterprises develop implementation plans for safety training of team leaders; by the end of 2011, all team leaders should have received such training, and it should be ensured that they receive periodic refresher training every year thereafter. 6. ‹Decision of the State Council Safety Committee on Further Strengthening Safety Training› (Safety Committee [2012] No. 10): High-risk enterprises such as mines and those dealing with hazardous materials must provide new employees with at least 72 hours of safety training, as well as at least 20 hours of refresher training per year.