Meanings of work safety in English

The 30-day review will not actually stop any production unless serious work safety and environmental violations are found, said officials.

He said the blasts and a recent string of accidents had "exposed severe problems in the work safety sector".

They were protesting at Turkey's dismal work safety record and the prime minister's apparently offhand attitude towards victims of the catastrophe.

Xinhua added the municipal government and Hunan provincial work safety department had launched an investigation into the cause of the accident.

Before last August, Yang Dacai was just another nameless official -the head of the Shaanxi province work safety administration, specifically.

The company added that workers had been provided "non-professional-grade" masks that had been approved by work safety officials in Brazil.

The Health and Safety Authority has launched a new work safety plan in an effort to stop injury and death on building sites.

Quality assurance manager Barry Waterland has also been charged, and told Morning Report the charges have been laid under work safety and health legislation.

Israel's finance ministry said it places a high importance on improving work safety at construction sites and assists the Labour Ministry in implementing measures.

Their performance will no longer be based simply on their region's growth rate, but will include resource and environmental costs, debt levels and work safety.

The government may start stopping or restricting bank loans to companies with poor work safety records, the Beijing News cited a government official as saying.

The Tianjin city government and Tianjin Administration of Work Safety did not respond to faxed requests for comment.

Work safety rules are strangling the trucking industry and contributing to a huge shortage of drivers, veteran truck drivers say.

But Wang Dexue, deputy head of the State Administration of Work Safety, said it was possible the 24 miners had survived.

Seventy-one miners were working when the accident happened at the Daxian Sankeng mine, near Yangquan, the State Administration of Work Safety said.

The Tianjin Administration of Work Safety posted a notice about the meeting with companies at the port on its website a week ago.