Provisional
Measures of Shenzhen Economic Zone on Working Ability Appraisal
for Workers under Injury, Illness or Disability |
(Promulgated by
Shenzhen Municipal People' s Government on July 6, 1989;
Promulgated again by Decree No.16 of Shenzhen
Municipal People' s
Government on October 21, 1993) |
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Chapter
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General Provisions |
Article 1
In order to meet the needs of reformation and development of
economic system and labor personnel system, make success of
working ability appraisal for workers under injury, illness or
disability, and safeguard the legal rights and interests
of
employers and employees, these measures are formulated in
accordance with the Regulations of People' s Republic of China
on Labor Insurance and the principles implied in the
national rules on reforming labor personnel system, combining
with the actual situations
of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone.
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Article 2 These Measures shall apply to enterprises
(including enterprises owned by the whole people, domestically
associated enterprises,
collectively-owned enterprises at
district level or above, enterprises under township or street,
joint-stock enterprises,
private enterprises of science and
technology, privately operated enterprises, individual
enterprises, enterprises stationed
in Shenzhen under central
authorities and authorities of other provinces, cities and
counties, and enterprises with foreign
investment), state
organs, mass associations and public institutions. |
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Chapter
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Organizational Structures |
Article 3
Shenzhen Municipal Committee of Medical and Labor Appraisal
shall be established and be composed of the leading officials
of
the municipal departments of labor, sanitation, personnel and
civil administration, and those of the federation of trade
unions. An office shall be established under the committee in
Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Labor. |
Groups of
medical and labor appraisal shall be established in every
district competent bureau, group company and parent
company, and
be composed of their respective administrative leaders and the
leading officials of the departments of labor
(personnel),
medical treatment, trade unions and security. Special persons
shall be appointed to take charge of daily
work. The appraisal
groups shall be responsible for putting forward preliminary
opinions on working ability appraisal for
worker under injury,
illness, disability or occupational disease, and shall make
proper arrangement. |
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Article 4
The Shenzhen Municipal Committee of Medical and Labor Appraisal
shall appoint relevant medical technicians to form three
medical
and technical appraisal groups. The three groups are composed of
a physician (including neuropathy physician and
nervous
physician) group, a surgery (including ordinary surgery,
thoracic surgery, urinary surgery, burning surgery and
orthopedics) group and an occupational disease group. The groups
shall make medical, scientific and technical appraisals
to the
working ability of a worker under injury, illness, disability or
occupational disease.
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Chapter
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Responsibilities and Tasks |
Article 5
The municipal medical and labor appraisal committee shall
fulfill the following responsibilities: |
1. carrying out
medical and labor appraisal, publicizing the significance of the
appraisal work, making and revising the
working procedures,
appraisal standards and grading standards of disability for the
medical and labor appraisal work in
this Municipality;
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2. urging and
supervising enterprises and hospitals in rescuing and treating
workers under injury, illness, disability and
occupational
disease; examining, appraising and confirming the circumstance,
reported by a unit, under which an employee
suffers work-related
injury, occupational poisoning, occupational disease or suffers
other injury or illness; confirming
the ending of a medical
treatment, grading work-related disability, and confirming the
seriousness of disability; issuing
certificate of
work-related disability; reexamining the seriousness of
disability when situation changes, regarding a worker' s
disability, directing workers in
body recovery; and undertaking
other medical appraisal jobs; |
3. concluding
and spreading the experiences of medical and labor appraisal;
collecting, rearranging and preserving the appraisal
opinions
and dealing suggestions for employees facing retirement on
account of illness or under injury, disability or occupational
disease. |
4. putting
forward opinions for revising and improving these Measures
according to the actual needs of construction and
development of
Shenzhen Special Economic Zone. |
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Article 6
Every district medical and labor appraisal group shall fulfill
the following responsibilities: |
1. carrying out
relevant national, provincial and municipal policies and
regulations; |
2. regularly
organizing reexamination for employees resting on account of
work-related injury, work-related illness or other
injury or
illness; putting forward suggestions to allow an employee under
injury or illness going back to work or other
dealing
suggestion, and submit the suggestions to the municipal medical
and labor appraisal committee for examination and
approval; |
3. collecting,
rearranging and preserving materials concerning occupational
poisoning, injury and accident(such as accident
reports,
original copies or abstracts of medical records, medical
certificates, X-ray pictures and field descriptions);
putting
forward opinions on the accident materials required to be
studied and examined, and providing the opinions to relevant
administrative departments; |
4. confirming an
injured or ill employee having entirely lost his working ability
on the strength of the effective certificate
issued by an
institution of medical prevention and cure, and submitting the
confirmation to the municipal committee of
medical and labor
appraisal for approval so that the employee may transact the
formalities of retirement according to stipulated
procedures.
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Chapter
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Administration System |
Article 7
The medical and labor appraisal
committee shall establish and improve all working systems, and
set up special systems to
manage seals, various records,
materials, archives and reports and the systems of submission,
examination and approval.
Important modifications to appraisal
standards and important policy making issues in working ability
appraisal shall be
discussed and determined by more than half of
the members of committee. The full-time or part-time staffs of
the medical
and labor appraisal committee shall take charge of
daily work, and shall regularly report work to the committee
every year.
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Article 8
When a hospital or epidemic-prevention station is entrusted by a
medical and labor appraisal committee or is appointed
by the
municipal sanitation bureau to make diagnosis to a worker under
injury, illness, disability or occupational disease,
it shall
indicate the nature of illness or injury (such as ordinary
disease, occupational disease, work-related injury
or other
injury) and appraisal conclusion in medical and appraisal
certificates. The certificates shall be signed
by a doctor in
charge or a chief doctor of the appointed or entrusted hospital
or epidemic-prevention station, and be stamped
by the hospital
or epidemic-prevention station. |
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Article 9
When a medical and labor appraisal committee require a worker to
be reexamined because there is dispute in the appraisal
of
illness or disability, there shall be more than three medical
staffs signing for approval. If a worker refuses to be
reexamined without proper excuse, he shall be considered as
having recovered or having completed the final treatment, and
shall not be arranged to any other reexamination or appraisal.
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Article 10
Every person engaged in medical and labor appraisal shall
adhere to principles, seek truth from facts and handle
matters
impartially when fulfilling his responsibilities. |
If a person
engaged in medical and labor appraisal violates the provisions
stipulated in the preceding paragraph, the medical
and labor
appraisal committee shall put forward a dealing suggestion, the
unit which he belongs or the competent department
shall impose
administrative penalty on him. If the circumstance is serious,
the violator shall be investigated for criminal
responsibility.
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Chapter
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Assessment Procedures and Standards |
Article 11
Any party who needs an appraisal of illness, disability or
occupational disease shall apply to his unit in writing,
fill in
a form of working ability appraisal for worker under injury
or disability, go to an appointed hospital or
epidemic-prevention station for examination and appraisal, and
require for relevant materials
such as the certificate of
diagnosis and relevant appraisal conclusion. |
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Article 12
If a party or his unit has dispute with an appointed hospital or
epidemic-prevention station about the appraisal conclusion
and
can not settle the dispute through mediation, he or it may apply
to the municipal medical and labor appraisal committee
for
reappraisal within 15 days upon receiving the conclusion notice.
The appraisal made by the municipal medical and labor
appraisal
committee shall be the final appraisal. |
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Article 13
Any unit or party who applies for a new diagnosis or appraisal
shall present all previous original medical records,
certificates of diagnosis, materials of examination and test,
statements and investigation reports which are produced by the
appointed hospital or epidemic-prevention station. All the
original materials shall not be modified, forged, concealed
or
destroyed. If any original material is modified, forged,
concealed or destroyed, the municipal medical and labor
appraisal committee shall not make any new conclusion, the unit
or party shall be responsible for all the consequences.
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Article 14
Every party who applies for reappraisal shall pay the
reexamination fees to the municipal medical and labor appraisal
committee in advance. If the previous appraisal conclusion is
changed because the original hospital made a wrong diagnosis,
or
the preliminary appraisal conclusion is wrong, the reappraisal
fees shall be paid by the unit making the wrong conclusion.
If
the original appraisal is upheld, the reappraisal fees shall be
paid by the party applying for the reappraisal.
The reappraisal
fees shall be used to pay experts and to pay for the check and
diagnosis of hospital. The charging standards
of reappraisal
fees shall be made separately by the municipal labor bureau and
the municipal sanitation bureau jointly
with the price
department. |
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Article 15
Any employee who suffers work-related injury, work-related
disability or occupational disease shall accept examination
and
get approval from the municipal medical and labor assessment
committee. The committee shall make relevant conclusions
on
whether the medical treatment is completed, on whether the
working ability is recovered, on the grading of disability,
or
on whether the employee still needs recuperation, and shall
inform his unit of the conclusion. The unit shall inform
the
employee of the conclusion. The administrative department of
unit shall make arrangements for its employee to let him
go back
to work, exchange his original post or recuperate according to
the appraisal conclusion made by a medical and labor
appraisal
committee. A circumstance of a worker who looses his working
ability completely and permanently on account of
an illness or
disability irrelevant with his work shall be examined and
confirmed by the municipal medical and labor appraisal
committee. |
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Article 16
Anyone who satisfies the requirements of early retirement for
illness, or suffers from work-related injury or occupational
disease through appraisal, his unit shall go to the municipal
labor bureau and municipal social insurance company to conduct
various procedures of social insurance and welfare on the
strength of the appraisal conclusion. |
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Article 17
The standards of working ability appraisal for employees
suffering from occupational injury or disease shall be
consistent
with the relevant appraisal standards stipulated in
present national regulations. |
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Article 18
The grading of work-related injury or disability shall be
carried out according to the grading standards of disability
stipulated in the Regulations of Shenzhen Special Economic
Zone on Insurance of Work-related Injury. |
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Chapter
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Supplementary Provisions |
Article 19
The working outlay required by Shenzhen Municipal Medical and
Labor Appraisal Committee shall be paid by Shenzhen Municipal
People' s Government from local finance according to its yearly
budget. |
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Article 20
The municipal medical and labor appraisal committee shall be
responsible for interpreting these Measures. |
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Article 21
These Measures shall go into effect as of August 1, 1989. |