The National Energy Administration recently announced the official release of Guidelines for Building Excellent Work Teams in the Coal Industry (MT/T 1383—2026), the coal industry’s first specialized standard for front-line work teams, which was led in development by China Shenhua’s Shendong Coal.
The standard’s drafting project was initiated by the National Energy Administration in June 2017, with the final standard completed after nine years of research and compilation work. The standard defines the overall framework for building excellent work teams, covering core dimensions including plan management, customer relations, resource management, process control, and performance evaluation.
For a long time, the coal industry has lacked unified, systematic and standardized guidance for work team development, leaving shortcomings in primary-level management practices. The introduction of this standard fills an industry gap and provides an institutional basis for coal mines to implement safety management at the frontline. It will promote the implementation of standard operations in frontline teams and make hazard identification and remediation a normal, long-term practice, thereby strengthening the primary-level foundation of coal mine work safety and supporting the high-quality development of the coal industry by applying standards to management and operations.
