China Chemical Safety Association publishes industry standards for production safety 
China Chemical Safety Association on June 16 released two sets of safety standards for the chemical industry, both effective immediately:
- Guide for Safe Production Information Management in Chemical Enterprise (T/CCSAS010—2021)
- Guidelines of Safety Assessment for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Laboratories (T/CCSAS011—2021)
These standards have been introduced to reduce accidents at chemical manufacturing facilities and chemical laboratories. Here is an overview of the Guide for Safe Production Information Management in Chemical Enterprise:
Scope
The standards for production safety information management apply to companies manufacturing, using, dealing with or storing chemicals.
Basic requirements
- Companies are required to establish a production safety information management system and prepare a production safety information role assignment table (安全生产信息职能分配表). The sample of this table provided in Appendix A of the guide (originally in Chinese) is shown below:
| Information category | Information name | Division in charge | ||
| Identification and collection | File storage | File updating | ||
| Chemical hazard | ||||
| Manufacturing process | ||||
| Equipment or facility | ||||
| Other | ||||
- Divisions in charge collect, organize and keep all types of production safety information according to their assigned roles to prepare a production safety information list (安全生产信息清单).
Examples of production safety information
Here are a few examples of chemical hazard information, one of the production safety information categories in the production safety information role assignment table:
- Toxicity (e.g. carcinogenicity and skin corrosivity)
- Permissible exposure limits (e.g. occupational exposure limits [OELs])
- Physical parameters (e.g. viscosity, density and pH)
The full text of the standards (in simplified Chinese) is available at
http://www.chemicalsafety.org.cn/detail.php?oneid=40567.
