Decree No. 70 of the Chairman of the Peoples Republic of ChinaPromulgation Date: 29th June 2002 Effective Date: 1st November 2002 Promulgated by: The Ninth National Peoples Congress Table of ContentsChapter I. General Principles Chapter II. Production Safety Guaranties for Production Operation UnitsChapter III. The Rights and Obligations of the Employees Chapter IV The Supervision and Administration of Production Safety Chapter V Emergency Rescue for an Accident and Its Investigation and Disposal Chapter VI Legal Liability Chapter VII Supplementary Rules Chapter I General PrinciplesArticle 1In order to strengthen the supervision and administration of production safety, to prevent and reduce the accidents, to guarantee the peoples life and property safety, and to promote the economic development, this law is hereby enacted. Article 2 This Law shall apply to the production safety involving the units engaged in production operations within the territory of the Peoples Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as the “production operation units”). The relevant laws and administrative regulations concerning fire protection safety, road traffic safety, railway traffic safety, marine traffic safety and civil aviation safety shall also apply if available. .Article 3 The administration of production safety shall comply with the guideline of “safety and precaution first.”Article 4 Production operation units shall abide by this Law, other laws and administrative regulations on production safety, strengthen the control over production safety, establish and perfect liability system of production safety, improve safety conditions, and ensure production safety. Article 5 The personnel chiefly in charge of production operation units shall take overall responsibility for their own production safety. Article 6 The employees of production operation units shall obtain the right of guaranteeing the production safety, and meanwhile fulfill the obligations as regards production safety according to law.Article 7 The Labor Union shall call on the employees to participate in democratic management and supervision to safeguard the lawful rights and interests in the matter of production safety. Article 8 The State Council and local peoples governments at all levels shall strengthen the guidance of production safety work, support and oversee all the relevant departments to fulfill their responsibility for safety control and supervision according to law. Article 9 The State Council department in charge of the control and supervision of production safety shall carry out the overall supervision and administration of production safety throughout the nation according to law; the departments of the peoples local governments at and above the county level in charge of the control and supervision of production safety shall according to law carry out the overall supervision and administration of production safety within their administrative divisions. According to this Law and the provisions of other laws and administrative regulations, the departments concerned in the State Council shall control and oversee the production safety within their own responsibility range; the departments concerned in the local peoples governments above the county level shall control and oversee the production safety within their individual responsibility range in accordance with this Law and the provisions of other laws and administrative regulations. Article 10 The State Council departments concerned shall according to law constitute forthwith national standards or trade standards based on the requirements of production safety guaranties, and make timely revisions in the light of technological and economic development. Production operation units shall carry out the national standards or trade standards guaranteeing production safety established according to law.Article 11 The peoples governments at all levels and the relevant departments shall adopt various means to strengthen the laws and provisions concerning production safety and widen the publicity of production safety knowledge, and improve the employees awareness of production safety. Article 12The intermediary organs established according to law, shall, entrusted by the production operation units, supply technological services for production safety work in accordance with the laws, administrative regulations and license guidelines. Article 13 The State carries out legal liability for the accidents and track down the legal liability of the personnel blaming for the accidents in accordance with this Law and other relevant laws and provisions. Article 14 The State encourages and supports the scientific and technological researc