All collieries must issue safety handbooks to miners free of
charge by the end of the year to strengthen safety at mines
throughout China.
The move is a requirement by the General Administration of Work
Safety, according to Xinhua News Agency.
The handbooks should include the rights and obligations of
miners, an introduction to possible accidents, emergency treatment
measures and telephone numbers to report disasters.
Coal mines can draft the handbook themselves, the administration
said.
The handbooks must have pictures and the language should be
simple and easily understood, according to the administration.
General information and specific conditions of the related coal
mine will be in every handbook.
During the National Day holidays, three major accidents occurred
in the southwestern Sichuan
Province, northwestern Xinjiang
Uygur Autonomous Region and central China's Henan
Province respectively.
Township coal mines can ask other organizations to do the
handbook work. Work safety departments above county level can also
draft the books. They must be updated to meet the requirements of
the latest situation, the administration said.
(
China Daily October 6, 2005)