On June 3, 2021, the Minister of Labor, War Invalids, and Social Affairs issued Circular No. 01/2021/TT-BLDTBXH stipulating the list of potentially unsafe products and goods under management responsibility of the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs. In which, the Circular stipulates the list of products subject to an inspection of quality upon import, including:
– Head protection equipment for workers: Industrial safety helmets;
– Eye and face protection equipment for workers: Welding goggles and welding shields providing protection from flying objects and ultraviolet radiation;
– Respiratory protective equipment for workers: Full-face and haft-face respirator masks for particle filtering; Full-face and haft-face respirator masks for filtering toxic gas (excluding medical face masks);
– Hand and arm protective equipment for workers: Protective work gloves protecting against cuts, punctures, and stabs, and insulating gloves (excluding medical gloves, medical examination gloves);
– Foot and leg protective equipment for workers: Shoes protecting against punctures, stabs, cuts, hits, and chemicals; insulating boots;
– Safety belts and personal fall-arrest systems for workers;
– Clothing to protect against heat and flame for workers;
– Lifts and their safety components, including Door locks and cabin door locks; Safety gear; Lift machine braking system; Overspeed governor; Shock absorbers; Shut-off valves/check valves of hydraulic lifts;
– Escalators and passenger conveyors; safety components, including Stopping and controlling braking systems for escalators or conveyors; Safety gear system; Traction machines (motors, gearboxes);
– Cylinders and containers for compressed gas with nominal working pressure exceeding 0.7 bar (excluding cylinders for petroleum and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG));
– Electric pulleys and hoists;
– Hand pulleys and hoists with a lifting load of 1.000 kg or more;
– Lift tables and elevating work platforms for lifting people (excluding suspended work platforms used in construction).
For products on the list above, they will have to ensure the quality standards and regulations when imported and approved by the Department of Occupational Safety; The Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs inspects the quality of imported goods in accordance with the law.
This Circular takes effect from July 18, 2021.
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