School of Management and Economics, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, P.R. China.
Department Building Construction, University of Granada, Advanced Technical School for Building Engineering, Granada, Spain.
Work. 2021;70(1):247-261. doi: 10.3233/WOR-213569.
Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) has a direct repercussion on the work, social and economic environments. The regulatory frameworks developed by each country are a basic aspect of OHS action policies.
This study analyses and compares the differences in OHS regulations in China and the European Union (EU) to identify weaknesses or gaps in the Chinese regulations.
Firstly, an overview of the OHS situation in the EU and China is carried out to provide context. Following this, a comparison of OHS regulations is conducted by searching different European and Chinese databases. The comparison focuses on several areas: socio-economic issues, accident rates, and the OHS regulatory framework.
Since 1989, the EU has produced a broad and comprehensive OHS regulatory framework. Almost 30 years later, its positive impact can be seen in EU accident rates, indicating that this framework might be used as a reference for other territories or countries. China has a complicated system with over 280 OHS legislative regulations, in the form of laws, regulations, rules, integrated regulations, etc. that lead to a mixture and repetition of contents.
The Chinese OHS legislation is still being constructed and complemented, since the two main Chinese OHS laws were approved during the last decade. This contrasts with the mature European framework, as it has been modified and completed over the years.
职业健康与安全（Occupational Health and Safety，OHS）直接影响工作、社会和经济环境。每个国家制定的监管框架是 OHS 行动政策的基本方面。
本研究分析和比较中国与欧盟（European Union，EU）的 OHS 法规差异，以确定中国法规中的薄弱或差距。
首先，对欧盟和中国的 OHS 情况进行概述，提供背景信息。然后，通过搜索不同的欧洲和中国数据库，对 OHS 法规进行比较。比较侧重于以下几个方面：社会经济问题、事故率和 OHS 监管框架。
自 1989 年以来，欧盟制定了广泛而全面的 OHS 监管框架。近 30 年后，其在欧盟事故率方面的积极影响表明，该框架可能被其他地区或国家用作参考。中国的 OHS 立法系统复杂，有 280 多项立法法规，以法律、法规、规章、综合规章等形式存在，导致内容的混合和重复。
中国的 OHS 立法仍在构建和补充中，因为过去十年中批准了两项主要的中国 OHS 法律。这与成熟的欧洲框架形成对比，因为它多年来一直在修改和完善。
