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To apply for the review of Category D Work Place by labor inspection agency, enterprises should complete the application form (Form 4) and attach three copies of the documents specified below, signed certification by construction safety evaluation professionals, and signed certification by the enterprise’s full-time engineers or technicians or related practicing professional engineers or practicing architects:
1. Construction plan (Attachment 14)
2. Construction safety evaluation report (Attachment 15)
Signed certification by the enterprise’s full-time engineers or technicians or related practicing professional engineers or practicing architects specified above is limited to technical issues of occupational safety and health equipment and facility.
Enterprises must confirm the accuracy of the certification signed by the enterprise’s full-time engineers or technicians, related practicing professional engineers or practicing architects prior to submitting the application for review.
For special projects involving complex construction work, long construction period, significant variation of construction conditions, enterprises may apply for sectional review after applying and receiving approval from labor inspection agency.

Eenterprises shall organize a committee consisting of the following personnel for evaluation prior to submitting documentation specified in the previous article:
1. Person(s) in charge of the work place.
2. Person(s) with domestic or foreign professional training in construction safety evaluation, or person(s) with construction safety evaluation professional capability (with documentation), and approved by governing authorities in the Central Government.
3. Full-time engineers or technicians
4.Occupational safety and health personnel specified in the Regulations of Occupational Safety and Health Management.
5. Supervisor(s) of the operation in the work place (including staff of subcontractors).
If the enterprise does not have construction safety evaluation personnel specified in item 2 above, or deems it necessary, may include the following professionals with active certifications who have also completed domestic training for construction safety evaluation:
1. Industrial Safety Professionals and one of the following professionals
(1) Architects
(2) Professional Civil Engineers
(3) Professional Structure Engineers
(4) Professional Land Engineers
(5) Professional Hydrology Engineers
2. Industrial Safety Professionals and the professionals in categories (2) to (5) specified above employed by engineering and technical consulting firms.
A person may possess one or more of the professional certifications listed above.
Review process and results specified in Paragraph 1 shall be documented.

For the review specified in Article 5, labor inspection agency may enter the work place for inspection if deemed necessary.
Labor inspection agency shall give written notice to enterprises within 30 days after receiving application for review specified in Article 5, unless enterprises are responsible for the cause.

For the work places which have passed the review conducted by the labor inspection agency, if the construction method for a major section of the project will be changed during construction, the enterprise shall re-evaluate the change. The enterprise shall implement preventive measures for the evaluated hazards, revise the construction plan, the construction safety evaluation report and record relevant document.
Article 18 is applicable to the re-evaluation specified above
Definition of the change of the construction method for a major section of the project is provided by the examples listed in Attachment 16.