What are the high-risk industries?

Coal production, non-coal mining, construction, hazardous materials production and storage, transportation, fireworks production, metallurgy, machinery manufacturing, weapons and equipment development, production and testing (including civil aviation and nuclear fuel).

On January 11, 2011, the State Administration of Work Safety issued the Administrative Measures for the Extraction and Use of Safety Production Expenses of Enterprises in Highly Hazardous Industries (Draft for Public Comments), which intends to include the electric power, metallurgy, and machinery industries in the scope of the use of the methods for the extraction and use of enterprise safety production expenses.

On February 14, 2012, the Ministry of Finance and the General Administration of Safety Supervision issued the "Management Measures for the Extraction and Use of Safety Production Expenses of Enterprises," which will include metallurgy, machinery manufacturing, and weapons and equipment development enterprises in the scope of application of the document, and therefore is to fundamentally raise the number of high-risk industries from six to nine.

Expanded information:

Top ten high-risk industries selected by netizens:

1) Firefighters

2) Temporary workers

3) Civil servants

4) Coal miners

5) Blue-collar workers

6) Web site editors

7) Programmers

8) Designers

9) Doctors and nurses

10) Taobao shopkeepers

11) Bank staff

Reference:

Baidu Encyclopedia-High Risk Industries