Study On The Structure And Approach Of Coal Mine Safety Administration

Coal mine safety administration structure and approach are fundamental issues of coal minesafety governance. The rationality of administration structure and the propriety of administrationapproach both have essential impacts to the regulation result. Therefore, it is critically necessaryfor coal mine safety regulation planning work to research the current problems, the reformtiming, the reform target, and relative policy suggestions.In China, a central governmental agency has been created exclusively for coal mine safetyadministration, which with its independent professional service abilities has providedorganizational incentives to the rapid improvement of coal mine safety in the past years. Butafter structural analysis, many problems still can be fund within the current administrativestructure such as the unclear division of jurisdiction, the organizational function overlapping, theneglect of economic considerations for offices location, and the lack of the compulsory executionpower, etc. Under the lights of foreign experiences, the dissertation suggests that non-coal minesafety administration should also be transferred to the agency of the State Administration of MineSafety, SAMS in abbreviation, which will maintain vertical management model and thejurisdiction territories may beyond the limits of administrative regions. Within the framework ofCentral Governmental Supervision and Local Governmental Administration, the grassrootsoffices of SAMS should take the responsibility of mine safety supervisions and the districtoffices of SAMS should take the responsibility of mine safety administrations.After the market-oriented Informational Service Approach and the government-orientedForced Compliance Approach, the United States mine safety regulation model is transferring toCooperative and Service Approach now. Meanwhile, distinct data characteristics before everyregulation reforms seems to be obvious after HP Filter Processing to the fatality rate per100thousands miners of U.S. from1900to2011. In other two main coal mining counties, the SouthAfrica’s coal mine safety administration approach shows the exact balance between governmentadministration and corporate safety management, while the India’s coal mine safetyadministration approach visibly demonstrates the abilities of state-owned large-scale coal mine’ssafety self-regulation. The comparative study of foreign coal mine safety administrationapproach indicates that there are intimated connections between the approach choice and thestatus of politics, economy, law, social governance ideology, mine safety trend, and theperformance of mine safety administration. Chinese current coal mine safety administration approach can be concluded asGovernmental Forced Compliance Approach, which actually dedicated to the successful changesto bad coal mine safety situations in begining of this century. However this approach is generatedby rather huge administrative resources and is not fit with modern society governance ideology.By2020, the fatality rate per million ton of coal mine will be under0.1while the fatalities ofcoal mine will be below of500in annual year analyzed by Gray Forecasting method. If suchcircumstances turn to be true in the future, the reform of coal mine safety administrationapproach will become an urgent consideration. After the using of PEST analysis, the dissertationadvises that the Multivariate Cooperation Approach will be the next choice of Chinese coal minesafety administration that should be put into test to the safety administration of state-ownedlarge-scale coal mine enterprises.In order to promote and safeguard the reform of Chinese coal mine safety administrationstructure and approach, the dissertation gives policy suggestions as follows: First, continuestrengthen the regulation of coal industry structure aiming at the rise of concentration ratio.Second, grab the best historic opportunity to close most small coal mines. Third, promulgatelaws and policies to promote and utilize all market elements that are conductive to coal minesafety from the labor market, the fund market, the insurance market, the safety intermediaryservices market, and the Corporate Social Responsibility Movement. Forth, perfect the use ofstate coal mine safety information system. Last, establish performance evaluation and internalreview mechanism to coal mine safety administration.