Personal protective equipment is an important equipment that protects workers from external injuries and ensures safety and health. How to reduce the number of casualties in the production process, increase the level of individual protection, and reduce property losses is a key concern for the government's safety production work.


I. Status Quo of Individual Protection Standards in China

1. Laws and regulations concerning personal protection

In order to standardize the work of standardization, the National People's Congress passed the "Standardization Law of the People's Republic of China" (hereinafter referred to as the "Standardization Law") in December 1988 and implemented it in April 1989. The promulgation of the "Standardization Law" is of great significance to the promotion of standardization and the development of a socialist market economy. In April 1990, the State Council promulgated the “Implementation Regulations of the People’s Republic of China Standardization Law”, and made more specific provisions in the formulation and revision of standards, the scope of mandatory standards, and legal responsibilities and further enriched and improved the “standardization”. The content of the Law became an important supporting law for the "Standardization Law." In recent years, the Chinese government has intensified its efforts to address individual security protection problems in industrial production, and gradually improved laws, regulations, and supervision and management mechanisms, and established individual security protection standards in line with international standards. The Occupational Disease Prevention Law of the People's Republic of China, which was implemented in May 2002, and the Safety Production Law of the People's Republic of China, which were implemented in November 2002, are all in the form of national laws to protect the fundamental interests of workers and enhance the safety of workers. To protect, prevent and reduce the occupational hazards, and regard this as the key work of national safety production supervision and management. The implementation regulations and department regulations that are accompanied by these two laws are also gradually introduced. With the promulgation and implementation of these laws and regulations, the standardization work of China's personal protective equipment gradually embarked on the stage of legal management.

2. Individual protection standards and implementation

Since the reform and opening up, China has formulated and promulgated a series of national standards and industry standards in strengthening the individual protection of laborers.

There are two forms of personal protection standards: one is specifically formulated protection standards, the other is listed in the product standards or other standards related to protection requirements and indicators. As far as the standard content is concerned, the protection standards mainly include: protection basic standards, protection method standards, protective equipment product standards, and special equipment safety standards. The main purpose is to protect people from the dangers and injuries they may encounter in their work and to minimize the harm caused during work. In China, the standards for the protection of human health, personal and property safety are mandatory standards and require mandatory enforcement, such as: GB12011-2000 "General Technical Conditions for Electrically Insulating Shoes", GB2811-1989 "Safety Hats", GB6095-1985 "Safety Belts "Wait. According to the WTO/TBT agreement, mandatory standards are one of the main forms of China's technical regulations. Products that do not meet mandatory standards are prohibited from production, sales, and import and export. China's individual protection standards are closely related to the safety of people's lives and property and are in conformity with the WTO/TBT agreement's justifications for mandatory standards. Therefore, most of them are mandatory standards. This will not only help the country conduct supervision and management, but also guide and urge enterprises to improve their products. Quality and safety performance, but also can effectively protect the interests of the country and the people. According to preliminary statistics, there are 96 individual protection standards in China, including 70 national standards and 26 industry standards. At present, there are thousands of personal protective equipment manufacturing enterprises in China, and tens of thousands of people are employed. There are a wide range of personal protective equipment on the market, and the quantity is sufficient to basically meet the needs of domestic economic development.

Second, the development of personal protective equipment
With the continuous economic development of our country, the improvement of people’s living standards and the growing awareness of safe production, the demand for personal protective equipment is increasing, and the requirements for the variety and quality of personal protective equipment are increasing. This is not only for personal protection. The development of the supplies industry provides a broad space, but also puts forward higher requirements for individual protection standards.

1. The position of personal protective equipment and standards in safety production is increasingly important Personal protective equipment is an important part of safety production. When technical measures cannot completely eliminate the dangers and harmful factors in production, or fail to adopt safe and effective technical measures, wearing personal protective equipment becomes the best means to prevent external injuries in production and ensure personal safety and health. A large number of facts have shown that a safety belt or a hard hat can save a person's life at a critical moment. A set of protective masks can prevent people from harm or occupational diseases. China is a large country with pneumoconiosis. The number of patients suffering is the sum of the number of patients suffering from pneumoconiosis in other countries in the world. Practice has proved that as long as they are equipped with general respiratory protection equipment and wear it as required, they can be used correctly. Most pneumoconiosis diseases can be prevented. of. The annual output of coal in the United States is close to half of that in China, and only 30 to 40 people die each year. One of the reasons is that the United States has advanced personal protective equipment and is relatively strict in terms of equipment, use, and management. Therefore, we must not only institutionally and legally establish the important status and role of individual protective equipment in China’s production safety, but also accelerate the integration of individual protection standards with international standards, strengthen supervision and management, and improve product quality and after-sales services. Effectively protect the life and health of workers.

2. Industry standards gradually become an important part of the individual protection standard system

With the establishment and improvement of China's socialist market economic system, the government will gradually weaken its function of intervening in the market. Enterprises will become the main body of market economic activities and will always be at the forefront of the market. Industry associations are the spokespersons and service providers of enterprises, represent the interests of the industry, and serve as a bridge and link between enterprises and governments, enterprises and enterprises. Industry standards are important tools for associations to serve businesses and markets. Providing standard services is an important function of industry associations. The state encourages enterprises to formulate enterprise standards that meet the market, promotes enterprises to publish alliance standards in the form of corporate alliances under the premise of common market interests, and publishes industry and society standards in the form of associations, societies, and other non-governmental organizations. This can not only promote enterprises. The enthusiasm and initiative of participating in standardization activities make the demand for standards come from the market, and it can give full play to the role of non-governmental organizations such as industry associations and societies in foreign economic and trade activities, making it the main force of technology alliances and technical standards. Industry standards can quickly respond to market demands. Industry associations can adopt national standards setting procedures to raise industry standards that meet market demands to national standards, and then promptly transform national standards into rules that adapt to international markets, and gradually improve them in accordance with WTO requirements. China's individual protection standard system regulates the production and sales of personal protective equipment.

Third, the main issues of the individual protection standards

Due to the diversification of economic composition, diversification of economic interests, diversification of labor employment forms, etc., there are still some problems in the protection of individual laborers in industrialized production in China. The main manifestations are the low level of advancement of personal protective equipment, and scientific research input. Less, product quality is uneven, and replacement is slow. In recent years, heavy and extraordinarily serious safety accidents in our country have been accompanied by a large number of casualties. One of the inevitable factors that has caused casualties is that some companies do not enforce laws with limited safety, and workers are equipped with personal protective equipment. Incomplete.

Although we already have a considerable number of standards or adopted international standards, there are still some products that do not have national or industry standards. Some products have relatively low standard technical indicators, and some products still lag behind. With the development of science and technology and the improvement of the national security awareness, workers' personal protection products not only require product quality and safety protection performance, but also require the product to be versatile. Because there are a variety of occupational hazards in the production environment, it is impossible to make a kind of occupational hazard equipped with a protective equipment, which requires the protective equipment to integrate as many functions as possible. Therefore, when formulating safety standards for personal protective equipment and special equipment, we must give full play to the important role of standardization in the development, development and production of new products. We must focus on innovation and improve China’s advanced technology and advanced technologies. The scientific and technological content of personal protective equipment more effectively protects the safety and health of workers.

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