Legal basis: Regulations on Industrial Injury Insurance
Article 17 Employees with work-related injuries or their immediate family members and trade unions may directly apply to the administrative department of labor and social security in the co-ordination area where the employer is located for work-related injury identification within 1 year from the date of accident injury or occupational disease diagnosis and identification.
Twentieth administrative departments of labor and social security shall, within 60 days from the date of accepting the application for work-related injury identification, make a decision on work-related injury identification, and notify the employees who apply for work-related injury identification or their immediate family members and the units where the employees work.