Hebei footwear industry adopts licensing system

The Hebei Province Safety Production Work Conference held on the 15th of last month was informed that all cities and counties in Hebei Province should complete the transfer of occupational health supervision functions in 2012. All county-level safety supervision departments must establish specialized occupational health supervision agencies. Institutions, functions, personnel, and equipment are in place. All major employers and occupational health management personnel of employers who have occupational disease hazards must be qualified for special training. Hebei Province will also increase the declaration of occupational hazards and plan to complete the declaration of occupational hazards for 30,000 enterprises in 2012.

Since Hebei Province initiated the occupational health supervision of workplaces in 2011, six local standards and a series of normative documents have been issued. Not only in the province's footwear industry, the license system has been implemented, the first batch of occupational health and safety licenses have been issued, and special occupational disease control operations have been carried out in 23 industries including metallurgy, quartz sand and wooden furniture. 1336 companies that did not meet the basic conditions for occupational health. According to statistics, at present, there have been 19,000 enterprises reporting occupational hazards in the province, involving more than 580,000 workers, ranking third in the country.

According to requirements, in 2012, Hebei Province will continue to implement the occupational health and safety licensing system in the shoe and bag footwear industry. Enterprises that have not obtained permits according to the regulations after September 30, 2012 will have to stop using all toxic substances. At the same time, they will also The province's metallurgical and other industries carried out investigations and studies, made preparations for license issuance, and continued to conduct occupational disease hazard control in 23 key industries such as wooden furniture, leather, quartz sand processing, asbestos, and metallurgy, to achieve governance, and promote a group of , standardize one-line governance effects.