What does safety production public interest litigation mean?

Legal analysis:

If illegal acts on production safety cause major accident risks or lead to major accidents, causing national interests or social public interests to be infringed, the People's Procuratorate may, on the basis of civil Public interest litigation shall be initiated in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Litigation Law and Administrative Litigation Law. The filing of public interest litigation for major accident hazards caused by illegal activities in production safety is preventive. Procuratorates initiate civil or administrative public interest litigation to urge the administrative counterpart to eliminate accident hazards, or to urge administrative agencies to perform their statutory duties. When a public interest litigation is filed after a major accident, the litigation claims should be to eliminate the impact of the accident and compensate for the losses caused by the accident. Zhou Dezhi believes that the promotion of public interest litigation in the field of production safety will help introduce rigid supervision forces into the field of production safety, and at the same time increase the awareness, attention and recognition of production safety work among the general public. The safety production work pattern that *participation in is a powerful promotion.

Legal basis:

"Production Safety Law of the People's Republic of China"

Article 50 Employees of production and business units have the right to know their Risk factors, preventive measures and accident emergency measures existing in the workplace and work stations, and have the right to make suggestions on the unit's safety production work.

Article 51 Employees have the right to criticize, report, and accuse problems existing in the unit's production safety work; they have the right to refuse illegal instructions and forced risky operations.

Production and business units shall not reduce wages, benefits and other benefits or terminate the labor contracts concluded with employees because they criticize, report or accuse the unit of production safety work or refuse illegal instructions or force risky operations.