What is the definition of labor protection?

Labor protection is the general name of legislative, organizational and technical measures taken by the state and units to protect the safety and health of workers in the process of labor production.

It refers to taking organizational and technical measures to eliminate bad conditions and behaviors that endanger personal safety and health, prevent accidents and occupational diseases, and protect the safety and health of workers in the process of labor according to national laws and regulations, relying on technological progress and scientific management. Its contents include: labor safety, labor hygiene, protection of female workers, protection of underage workers, working hours and vacation system.

The purpose of labor protection is to create safe, hygienic and comfortable working conditions for workers, eliminate and prevent possible casualties, occupational diseases and acute occupational poisoning in the process of labor production, ensure workers to participate in social production with healthy labor force, promote the improvement of labor productivity and ensure the smooth progress of socialist modernization.

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"Strengthening labor protection and improving working conditions" is a sacred provision of the Constitution of China. Since the founding of New China, the China * * * Production Party and the people's government have attached great importance to labor protection.

Document the State Council 1956 pointed out that "it is an important policy of our country to improve working conditions and protect the safety and health of workers in productive labor" when issuing the Regulations on Safety and Hygiene in Factories, the Technical Regulations on Safety of Construction and Installation Projects and the Regulations on Report of Casualty Accidents of Workers.

In the Outline of the Eighth Five-Year Plan for the National Economy adopted at the Fourth Session of the Seventh National People's Congress, it is clearly stipulated that it is necessary to "strengthen labor protection, conscientiously implement the policy of' safety first, prevention first', strengthen labor safety supervision, strive to improve working conditions, and strive to reduce the casualty rate of enterprise employees and the incidence of occupational diseases.

Strengthen the research of safety technology policy, the promotion of labor protection science and scientific and technological achievements, and strive to test the means of failure. The state constantly improves labor protection legislation, strengthens labor protection supervision and safety production management, and promotes safety technology, occupational health technology and related projects to ensure the realization of this basic policy required by the Constitution.

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