Ministries tell employers to protect workers from heat
By Chen Xin | China Daily | Updated: 2011-07-05 07:52
Residents in Wuhan, capital of Central China's Hubei province, crowd into a swimming pool on Sunday to cool off. She Ji / for China Daily |
FUZHOU - The country's top work safety watchdog and China's health and labor ministries have jointly called for efforts to be stepped up to protect laborers on excessively hot days and ensure they are not forced to work in conditions that might expose them to heatstroke or accidents.
Photo