Recently, the State Administration of Work Safety ("SAWS") has distributed the Decision on Revising and Repealing Some Rules and Normative Documents (the "Decision") which will take into effect as of the date of promulgation.
According to the Decision, some articles of three rules will be modified. In particular, Item 7 of Article 6 of the Implementing Measures for Work Safety Licenses for Coal Mine Enterprises is revised to read as "making an emergency response plan, organizing a mine rescue crew as required, and equipping such crew members with necessary rescue devices; for a coal mine enterprise that is not able to set up a separate mine rescue crew, a part-time rescue crew shall be established at the coal mine which belongs to such enterprise, and such enterprise shall ink a rescue agreement with nearby rescue crew". Meanwhile, 13 pieces of normative documents are repealed in accordance with the Decision, including the Ten Provisions on the Work Safety of Non-coal Mine Enterprises, Six Provisions on the Announcement on Enterprises' Work Safety Risks, Nine Provisions on the Emergency Management for Enterprises' Work Safety, Eight Provisions on Occupational Hazard Prevention and Control by Employers and others.