On February 17, 2013, China's State Administration of Work Safety released the "Second Batch of Key Monitored Hazardous Chemicals List," comprising 14 substances. On June 22, 2011, the State Administration of Work Safety released the "First Batch of Key Monitored Hazardous Chemicals Target List," which included 60 substances. Currently, there are a total of 74 key monitored hazardous chemicals.
The List of Key Regulated Hazardous Chemicals was compiled by the State Administration of Work Safety of China based on an analysis of domestic hazardous chemical production, recent hazardous chemical accidents in China, domestic chemical production, key regulated chemical varieties at home and abroad, inherent hazardous characteristics of chemicals, and major domestic and international chemical accidents over the past 40 years. The list was compiled by the State Administration of Work Safety after researching and screening over 3,800 hazardous chemicals currently listed in the "List of Hazardous Chemicals".
China's State Administration of Work Safety requires enterprises that produce, store, or use key regulated hazardous chemicals to actively upgrade and improve the automated monitoring systems of their production and storage facilities. Highly dangerous and large-scale installations must be equipped with safety instrumented systems (emergency shutdown or safety interlocks) in accordance with the law, and this work must be completed by the end of 2014.
Local safety supervision departments at all levels shall, in accordance with the requirements of relevant laws, regulations, and documents, implement key supervision over enterprises that produce, store, use, or operate key hazardous chemicals. They shall also supplement and determine the categories and specific types of hazardous chemicals subject to key supervision within their respective jurisdictions based on the local hazardous chemical safety production situation.
Please refer to the appendix for the first and second batches of key regulated hazardous chemicals lists.
Sources: State Administration of Work Safety of China (2013-02-17) (Compiled by PIDC)
Attachment file:List of Key Monitored Hazardous Chemicals.doc
