On June 16th, China State Administrations of Work Safety published the Guidelines for Standardization of Enterprises’ Management of Non-pharmaceutical Precursor Chemicals (Notice 70 of 2014), requiring chemical companies to better control precursor chemicals (see Note).
The Guidelines provide instructions to companies involved in precursor chemical production and operation on implementation of a liability system, record-keeping, precursor chemical management, purchasing, production and storage, sales, training and annul reporting to work safety administrations. Incentive schemes for internal prosecution of behaviors in violation of regulations are also encouraged. Severe cases should be reported to local authorities of public security and work safety.
Annex 1~ 10 include key management guidelines, from production, storage to sales, all along the supply chain. The table templates can be adopted or adapted to keep records of different activities involving precursor chemicals. Records should be properly archived for at least 3 years in case of legal investigation.
Annual report should be submitted to work safety administrations before every Mar 31st via the online system and in hard copies, consisting of information on varieties of precursor chemicals, quantity, whereabouts, etc. of the previous year.
