Occupational safety and health (hereafter refered to as OSH) rights are a series of rights to which all labourers should be entitled with a view to guaranteeing their lives and health against occupational hazards.2 And OSH legislation refers to all the legal norms to protect OSH rights. It is clearly provided in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights that
"The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to the enjoyment of just and favourable conditions of work which ensure, in particular:., safe and healthy working conditions."3
As a signatory state, China is on the way to the perfection of its OSH legal system, and …