Recently, the State Administration of Work Safety has prepared and issued the Several Provisions on the Implementation of the Work Safety Law (Draft for Comment) (the "Draft for Comment") for public comments. The period for feedback will end on December 26.
The Draft for Comment revises the original Article 5 as "The major person-in-charge of each corporate production and business operation entity shall report the work safety situation of the entity to the board of directors each year. Each State-owned or State-controlled production and business operation entity and its major person-in-charge shall, in accordance with the provisions, report the work safety situation to the State-owned assets administration department under the relevant people's government". Meanwhile, the content including "the liability scope and assessment standard of the major person-in-charge and other persons-in-charge under the work safety liability system of each production and business operation entity shall be clarified to form a liability system covering all the employees, all the work positions and all the production and business operation activities" is added to the original Article 6. In addition, the Draft for Comment also refines the punishment provisions, specifying in relevant articles that the amount of the fine punishable for the person directly in charge and other personnel directly liable shall not be less than CNY1,000.