Notice on the Issuance of the Safety Guidelines for Laboratories in Colleges and Universities by the General Office of the Ministry of Education (MOE)
The General Office of the Ministry of Education
MOE [2023]5
The education departments (education commissions) of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, the education bureaus of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, the education departments (bureaus) of relevant departments (units), the colleges and universities: In order to strengthen the safety of laboratories in colleges and universities, and ensure the personal safety and campus stability of teachers and students, the Safety Guidelines for Laboratories of Colleges and Universities is hereby issued to you, please follow and implement.
General Office of the Ministry of Education
February 8, 2023
Laboratory Safety Guideline for Colleges and Universities
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 In order to further strengthen the safety work of laboratories in colleges and universities, effectively prevent and eliminate potential safety hazards, minimize laboratory safety accidents, and ensure campus safety, the life safety of teachers and students and the safety of public property, these specifications are formulated in accordance with national laws and regulations such as the Work Safety Law of the People's Republic of China, the Fire Protection Law of the People's Republic of China, the Regulations on the Reporting and Investigation and Handling of Production Safety Accidents, and the actual situation of colleges and universities.
Article 2 In these Specifications, university laboratories refer to places affiliated to colleges and universities engaged in experimental training activities such as teaching and scientific research and their affiliated facilities.
Article 3 The construction and use of laboratories in colleges and universities shall conscientiously implement all national safety-related laws and regulations to ensure the safe and orderly conduct of experimental activities.
Article 4 The safety work of laboratories in colleges and universities shall adhere to the policy of safety first, prevention first, and comprehensive management, realize a standardized and normalized management system, and focus on implementing the safety responsibility system, management system, education and training, safety access, condition guarantee, and safety management content of hazardous sources such as hazardous chemicals.
Chapter II Laboratory Safety Responsibility System
Article 5 University-level Safety Responsibility System
(1) Universities shall coordinate and manage laboratory safety work, and include laboratory safety work in the university's work plan.
(2) The safety management of university laboratories adheres to the principle of the party and the government share responsibility, the position has dual responsibility, manage together, and pursue responsibility for dereliction of duty. The main person in charge of the party and government is the first responsible person, the university leader in charge of laboratory work is the important leader responsible person, assists the first responsible person to be responsible for laboratory safety work, and other university leaders have the responsibility of supporting, supervising and guiding laboratory safety work within the scope of their work.
(3) Establish university-level laboratory safety work leadership institutions, and clarify personnel and division of labor.
(4) Clarify the responsibilities of laboratory safety management of laboratory safety competent functional departments, other relevant functional departments, and second-level teaching and scientific research units (hereinafter collectively referred to as second-level units), establish and improve the laboratory safety responsibility system for all employees, and allocate sufficient full-time safety personnel.
(5) Sign a laboratory safety responsibility letter with each relevant second-level unit.
(6) Establish and improve project risk assessment and control mechanisms, especially relying on modern technological means to strengthen information construction, and build a working mechanism for full-cycle management of laboratory safety.
(7) Establish and complete laboratory safety education and training and access systems.
(8) Establish and improve the laboratory safety classification management system.
(9) Establish a reporting system for laboratory safety hazards, and publish the mailbox, telephone number, mailbox, etc. for reporting laboratory safety hazards.
Article 6 Safety Responsibility System of Second-level Units
(1) The responsible persons of the Party and government of the second-level units are the main leaders and responsible persons for laboratory safety.
(2) The second-level unit shall specify the members of the team in charge of laboratory safety and the safety management personnel of each laboratory.
(3) Sign a safety responsibility letter with the person in charge of each laboratory to which it belongs.
4) Combine their own actual situation and the characteristics of disciplines and specialties to establish a targeted laboratory safety education and training and access system. (5) Regularly carry out inspections of all kinds of hidden dangers in laboratory safety, and implement closed-loop management for the rectification of hidden dangers. (6) Establish emergency response plans, conduct regular training and implementation drills. Article 7: Laboratory Safety Responsibility System (1) The person in charge of the laboratory is the person directly responsible for the safety work of the laboratory, and shall strictly implement daily safety management work such as laboratory safety access, hidden danger rectification, and personal protection, and truly ensure laboratory safety. (2) The project leader (including the teacher of the teaching course) is the first responsible person for the safety of the project, and must identify hazards and risk the project, and formulate preventive measures and on-site disposal plans.
(3) The person in charge of the laboratory shall designate a safety officer to be responsible for the daily safety management of the laboratory.
(4) The person in charge of the laboratory shall sign a safety responsibility letter or commitment letter with relevant laboratory personnel.
Article 7 Laboratory Safety Responsibility System
(1) The person in charge of the laboratory is the person directly responsible for the safety work of the laboratory, and shall strictly implement daily safety management work such as laboratory safety access, hidden danger rectification, and personal protection, and truly ensure laboratory safety.
(2) The project leader (including the teacher of the teaching course) is the first responsible person for the safety of the project, and must identify hazards and risk the project, and formulate preventive measures and on-site disposal plans.
(3) The person in charge of the laboratory shall designate a safety officer to be responsible for the daily safety management of the laboratory.
(4) The person in charge of the laboratory shall sign a safety responsibility letter or commitment letter with relevant laboratory personnel.
Article 8 Reward and punishment mechanisms for laboratory safety
(1) Strengthen the university's main responsibility, and implement responsibility to the post or individual in accordance with the principle of who uses, who is responsible, who is in charge, and who is responsible.
(2) Universities should incorporate laboratory safety work into internal inspections, daily work assessments, and year-end evaluations. Give commendations and awards to units and individuals with outstanding achievements in laboratory safety work; Individuals and units that fail to perform their duties and responsibilities shall be criticized and punished, and their legal responsibility shall be pursued in serious cases.
(3) After a laboratory safety accident occurs, carry out accident investigation in accordance with laws and regulations, and seriously pursue the responsibility of the responsible unit and responsible person for the accident.
Chapter III Laboratory Safety Management System
Article 9 Universities and second-level units shall establish and improve laboratory safety management measures and systems, issue normative documents to ensure operability and actual management effects, and fully consider the characteristics of disciplines and experimental uses, and revise and update them in a timely manner.
Article 10 The laboratory safety management system mainly includes the following aspects.
(1) Safety inspection system: carry out regular safety inspections of all staff, whole process, all elements, and full coverage for laboratories, verify the implementation of safety systems, responsibility systems, safety education and potential safety hazards in equipment and facilities, and implement closed-loop management of problem investigation, registration, reporting, rectification, and review.
(2) Safety education and training and access system: All personnel who enter the laboratory to study or work should first conduct training in safety knowledge, safety skills and operation specifications, master the skills of correct use of equipment, facilities and protective equipment, and enter the laboratory for experimental operations only after passing the assessment.
(3) Project risk assessment and control system: All teaching and scientific research projects involving important sources of danger, namely toxic and harmful chemicals (highly toxic, explosive, explosive, etc.), dangerous gases (flammable, explosive, toxic, asphyxiating), animals and pathogenic microorganisms, radiation sources and radiation devices, isotopes and nuclear materials, dangerous mechanical processing devices, strong electric and strong magnetic and laser equipment, special equipment, etc., shall undergo a risk assessment before carrying out experimental activities. For projects with major safety hazards, experimental activities must not be carried out before the safety guarantees are effectively implemented.
(4) Full-cycle management system for hazard sources: The whole process and full-cycle management of important hazard sources such as procurement, transportation, storage, use, and disposal should be carried out. Procurement and transportation should choose units and channels with corresponding qualifications, storage should have a special storage place and strictly control the quantity, use should be issued by a special person responsible for issuance, recycling and detailed records, the waste generated after the experiment should be uniformly collected and stored and scientifically disposed of in accordance with laws and regulations. Risk assessment of hazard sources shall be carried out, archives and databases of safety risk distribution of major hazard sources shall be established, and a hierarchical and categorical disposal plan for hazard sources shall be formulated.
(5) Safety emergency response system: Universities, second-level units and laboratories shall establish emergency response plans and emergency drill systems, periodically carry out emergency knowledge learning, emergency handling training and emergency drills, ensure emergency personnel, materials, equipment and funds, and ensure that emergency functions are complete, personnel in place, fully equipped and respond in a timely manner. The effectiveness of experimental protective equipment and equipment and emergency supplies should be checked regularly.
(6) Laboratory safety accident reporting system: After a laboratory safety accident occurs, the university should immediately activate the emergency plan, take measures to control the situation, and at the same time truthfully report the situation to the local party committee, government and its relevant departments and university departments within 1 hour, and copy it to the Ministry of Education, and shall not be late, false, concealed or omitted, and timely renew the report according to the changes in the development situation.
Chapter IV Laboratory Safety Education and Training, and Publicity
Article 11 Carrying out Education and Training Activities
(1) Universities carry out safety education and training activities for all staff and students each year, and archive records.
(2) Universities and second-level units carry out emergency drills that combine the characteristics of disciplines and specialties, and effectively record the content of the drills, the number of participants, and the evaluation of effects.
(3) Universities and second-level units shall carry out professional safety training activities and organize safety training examinations according to the needs of experiments, and newly recruited teaching staff and newly enrolled students shall participate in and pass the examination, and effectively record the training and examination.
(4) The laboratory shall train and evaluate the standard operating procedures such as operation technology, equipment use, reagents or gas management of personnel entering the laboratory, and record and archive.
Article 12 Colleges and universities involving important hazards shall set up laboratory safety courses with credits or include safety access education and training in the training link.
Article 13 Increase the intensity of safety education and publicity, increasing the safety awareness of teachers and students. Universities and second-level units shall, in accordance with the requirements of all-staff, comprehensive, and whole-process, innovate publicity and education forms, carry out safety publicity, experience exchange and other activities, and build a distinctive safety culture.
Chapter V Authorization for Laboratory Teaching and Scientific Research Activities
Article 14 Before carrying out teaching and scientific research activities involving important hazards (including student experimental courses, graduation projects, teachers' scientific research projects, independent research, discipline competition experimental courses, etc.), the project leader (including teaching course teachers) shall identify, assess risks and control the content involved in the implementation of experimental projects in the laboratory, formulate on-site disposal plans, and guide relevant personnel to do a good job in safety protection; Newly hired personnel shall obtain laboratory access qualifications after signing the contract and before entering the laboratory.
Article 15 Project leaders (including teachers of teaching courses) shall formulate specific safety management measures and safety education plans based on the characteristics of the project, conduct safety training for all students and staff participating in the project, and perform safety notification obligations in accordance with law.
Article 16 Students' research topics shall include and pass the review of the analysis, prevention and control and emergency handling measures involved in carrying out experimental research, or conduct safety analysis and pass the review on the selected topic separately.
Article 17 All personnel entering the laboratory to study or work shall abide by the laboratory safety access system and safety management system, and after obtaining the access qualification, carry out experiments in strict accordance with the experimental operation procedures or experimental instructions.
Article 18 Schools, second-level units or laboratories shall sign contracts or safety agreements with relevant parties or outsiders entering the laboratory, clarifying the safety responsibilities of both parties.
Chapter VI Safeguards for Laboratory Safety Conditions
Article 19 Funding Guarantees
(1) Universities should allocate routine laboratory safety funds each year to ensure the normal operation of safety work.
(2) The school shall have special funds to invest in the construction of the laboratory, and at the same time ensure that the rectification of potential safety hazards is implemented in a timely manner. (3) Second-level units strengthen laboratory safety construction and management through diversified investment.
Article 20 Material and facility safeguards
(1) Colleges and universities should strengthen the guarantee of safety materials, equip them with necessary safety protection facilities and equipment, and establish a working environment that can ensure the safety and health of experimental personnel.
(2) The laboratory is equipped with appropriate fire fighting facilities and regularly carries out training in use. (3) Areas where chemical and biological harm is likely to occur, and emergency sprinkler and eyewash devices are equipped. (4) Install access control and monitoring facilities in key places, and have special personnel to manage them.
Article 21 Strengthen team building, with sufficient manpower to ensure
(1) The university has a team of full-time laboratory safety management personnel according to the actual situation and needs of laboratory safety work, and continuously improves their quality and ability. Promote the construction of professional safety teams to ensure the stability and sustainable development of the team.
(2) Universities and second-level units respectively set up laboratory safety supervision teams, regularly carry out safety inspections, and provide inspection reports and rectification opinions. The laboratory safety supervision team can be composed of in-service teachers, laboratory technicians (including retired and re-employed personnel) and external experts. (3) The person in charge of laboratory safety management shall receive training and fulfill the job requirements and conduct regular rotation training.
Article 22 Laboratory building safety assurance engineering projects (new construction, reconstruction, expansion, maintenance, decoration, etc.) shall be carried out in accordance with laws and regulations when demonstrating, initiating, constructing, and accepting, and only after passing the review organized by the universities’ laboratory safety functional department can they be implemented.
Chapter VII Safety Management of Laboratory Hazardous Chemicals
Article 23 Hazardous chemicals shall be purchased from units with production and operation license qualifications; Highly toxic chemicals, precursor chemicals, explosive chemicals, narcotic drugs, Class I psychotropic substances, explosives, etc. must be approved by the school before purchase, and after reporting to the public security department for approval or filing, they shall be purchased from units with business license qualifications, and records of approval and approval shall be kept; Before purchasing narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, etc., they must also apply to the drug regulatory department, and purchase from designated suppliers after submitting for approval.
Article 24 A dynamic management ledger shall be established for hazardous chemicals, laboratories shall set up special storage spaces and store them in a scientific and orderly manner, the total amount of hazardous chemicals stored shall meet the requirements of regulations, and shall be stored in accordance with the classification specifications of the properties of chemical reagents, and the labels of chemicals (including prepared reagents) shall be complete and clear.
Article 25 The safety management of controlled chemicals must meet the requirements of public security management and strictly implement all provisions. Highly toxic chemicals implement five double management (that is, double acceptance, double storage, double delivery, double locks, double books), separate storage, not stored with flammable, explosive, corrosive substances, etc., there is a special person to manage and do a good job of storage, collection, distribution registration, registration data for at least 1 year, anti-theft and other technical measures meet the control requirements; Precursor chemicals should be stored in special storage areas or counters and have anti-theft measures, of which Class I precursor chemicals and pharmaceutical precursor chemicals shall be managed by double locks, and the account books shall be kept for no less than 2 years; The stock of explosive-prone chemicals is compliant, and special storage areas or counters are set up for storage, and there are anti-theft and explosion-proof measures, which meet the requirements of double lock management; Narcotic drugs and Class I psychotropic substances shall have special account books, special storage areas or counters shall be set up for storage, and technical prevention measures such as anti-theft of special storage areas and counters shall meet the requirements of control, and double lock management shall be implemented; Explosives are isolated and stored in limited quantities, and their use and destruction are to be carried out in accordance with the requirements of the public security departments.
Article 26 The import of hazardous chemicals shall be registered with the institution responsible for the registration of hazardous chemicals by the work safety supervision and administration department under the State Council.
Article 27 Schools shall establish dangerous goods storage areas and chemical experiment waste storage stations, and store chemical experiment waste in a centralized and designated manner.
Article 28 Establish a hazardous waste management system for chemical experiments, formulate an experimental hazardous waste management plan as required and report it to the ecological and environmental department for the record; Entrust units with corresponding hazardous waste business licenses to clean up and dispose of experimental hazardous wastes.
Article 29 of the Supplementary Provisions of Chapter VIII will seriously pursue responsibility and accountability for laboratory safety liability accidents or incidents caused by violations of national laws and regulations, violations of relevant provisions on school safety management, operational errors, failure to perform safety management duties, etc., with specific reference to the relevant measures for accountability for laboratory safety accidents in colleges and universities.
Article 30 Colleges and universities shall, in accordance with these Norms and the actual situation of the University, formulate specific implementation measures. All kinds of laboratories should comply with the relevant laboratory standards of the national industry.
Article 31 These Specifications shall take effect on the date of promulgation.
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Issued on February 14, 2023
