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Major events of the development of safety culture in China
Bing Wang a,b
a School of Resources and Safety Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, Hunan, P R China
b Safety & Security Theory Innovation and Promotion Center, Central South University, Changsha 410083, Hunan, P R China
Table 1 .
Major events of the development of safety culture in China (1994—1997).
Major event | |
1994 | The Alarm Bells Ringing Gazette, a well-known safety-related publication in China at that time, began to edit and publish ‘Safety Culture’ column since January 1994 (Liu, 2010). |
In January 1994, the Nuclear Emergency Office of the State Council of PRC held the Symposium on Safety Culture in Nuclear Industry, which is the first high-level discussion on safety culture organized by the Chinese government. After the conference, the ‘Proceedings of Safety Culture’ was edited and published, which played a fundamental role in the safety culture development in China (Mao and Wang, 2013). | |
In June 1994, Li Boyong, minister of the Ministry of PRC published an important article named ‘Increasing Work Safety Propaganda and Considering the Work Safety Works in A Safety Culture Level’ at the first issue of Work Safety Gazette (now known as China Work Safety Gazette) (Wang and Wu, 2017a). | |
In December 1994, the editorial boards of China Safety Science Journal and Alarm Bells Ringing Gazette (1994) edited and published a book named ‘The Developmentof Safety Culture in China: Study and Exploration’, which is China’s first monograph on safety culture and symbolizes the beginning of the study of safety culture in China. In addition, Boyong Li, minister of the Ministry of PRC wrote a preface to this book in June 1994, and Peiyao Li, vice chairman of National People’s Congress wrote an inscription for this book in December 1994. | |
The Beijing People’s Broadcasting Station and the Beijing TV Station began to show the special program about safety culture in some columns such as ‘Environment and Disaster Reduction’ and ‘Environment and Disaster Reduction’ to the audiences (Liu, 2010). | |
1995 | On January 14th, 1995, vice premier Jiahua Zou stressed the improvement of safety culture and the enhancement of the whole people’s safety consciousness at the National Work Safety Telephone Meeting (Wang and Wu, 2017a). |
In March 1995, Zigong Hard Alloy Plant in China’s Sichuan province took the lead in China to develop enterprise safety culture, it established the Safety Culture Promotion Committee and promulgated the Five-year Plan for Developing Enterprise Safety Culture based on its characteristic of work safety (Mao and Wang, 2013). This practice was also a reference for other Chinese enterprises in developing enterprise safety culture in later years. | |
In April 1995, four organizations such as the China Association for Science and Technology of Labor Protection, and the Alarm Bells Ringing Gazette jointly sponsored the First National Symposium on Safety Culture in Beijing (Wang and Wu, 2017a). More than 120 experts and scholars from the government departments, the large enterprises, the academic associations, the institutions of higher education and other research institutions attended this meeting. And the ‘Proposal on the Developing Strategies for China’s Safety Culture’ readied to be presented to the State Council of PRC was adopted at this symposium. In addition, on May 16th, 1995, Science and Technology Daily published the ‘Proposal on the Developing Strategies for China’s Safety Culture’in full, which expanded the social influence of safety culture further (Mao and Wang, 2013). | |
In May 1995, the ‘Advocating Safety Culture and Raising the Whole People’s Safety Consciousness’ as listed as one of the three themes of the Fifth National Work Safety Week. | |
In July 1995, vice premier Bangguo Wu stressed that the party committees and governments at all levels should advocate safety culture by strengthening the safety publicity and education at the National Work Safety Telephone Meeting. | |
In August 1995, the ‘Proceedings of the First National Symposium on Safety Culture’ was published, which collected forty-six papers on safety culture (Mao and Wang, 2013). | |
On November 8th, 1995, the Ministry of Labour of PRC (1995) promulgated and implemented the ‘Provisions on the Occupational Safety and Health Education for Enterprise Employees’, its Article 2 pointed out that enterprise should develop and advocate a positive safety culture, and its Article 6, Article 12, Article 13 and Article 15 all also mentioned safety culture. | |
In December 1995, Guang-Mei-Shan Railway Limited Company Co., Ltd. held the ‘Symposium on Work Safety’, the safety culture theories and the development of safety culture in railway were dicussed at this conference (Mao and Wang, 2013). | |
In 1995, the China Meteorological Press (1995) the ‘Guidance for China’s Enterprise Safety Culture Activities’. | |
1996 | In March 1996, the last week Monday in March was identified as ‘National Safety Education Day for Elementary and Middle School Students’ by the Chinese government, which was helpful for developing safety culture in elementary and middle schools. |
In April 1996, the first week in April was identified as ‘Traffic Safety Propaganda Week’ by the Ministry of Public Security of PRC, which was helpful for improving traffic safety culture. | |
In May 1996, the Ministry of Labour of PRC held the ‘Symposium on China’s Occupational Safety and Health towards the 21st Century’, safety culture was one of the main topics of this conference. | |
1997 | On January 31th, 1997, the Ministry of Labour of PRC (1997) promulgated and implemented the ‘Ninth Five-Year Development Plan for Labor Science and Safety Science and Technology & the Long-term Targets through the Year 2010’, which pointed out that China must develop the research and practice of safety culture vigorously. |
On May 20th and 21th, 1997, the ‘International Symposium on Safety Culture’ organized by the ILO and the Ministry of Labour of PRC was held in Baiyin, GanSu, China, the participants made an extensive academic exchange and discussion on the international safety culture theories, and the study and practice of safety culture of China. | |
On June 6th, 1997, the experts from the Preparatory Committee for China Safety Culture Research Association put forward the ‘Suggestions on Drafting the Outline of Safety Culture in China’, which was reported in Journal of Scientific American (Chinese version) (Wang and Wu, 2017a). | |
In 1997, Caihong Group Corrorpation started to develop its safety culture with the topic of “To be a safe employee in Caihong”, and its leaders organized the symposium on safety culture (Mao and Wang, 2013). |
Table 2.
Major events of the development of safety culture in China at the national level after 2005.
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