Abstract: In order to clarify the concept of work safety responsibility, determine connection between government supervision subject and enterprise responsibility subject, and to further implement work safety responsibility system in practice, framework and theoretical basis of the system's supervision mode in China were analyzed, and practical difficulties it faced were summarized. Then, it was put forward that government supervision should form a relatively flexible concept of work safety norms, and a mutual trust mechanism between regulators and regulatory objects should be built. On this basis, a legal supervision mode with target responsibility statement at its core was constructed, which clarified boundaries of rights and responsibilities between enterprises and the government and practice space of rights. The results show that compared with current rigid standard adjustment mode, the target liability statement flexibly establishes obligations and responsibilities of enterprises, which the government only needs to supervise.

Key words: safe production responsibility, government supervision, supervision mode, flexible specifications, target responsibility statement