Seventy-four companies responsible for a number of workplace accidents will soon be put on a public blacklist.

This new step is to enforce work safety and curb the number of accidents, a senior official said yesterday.

"As a long-term measure to intensify work safety, companies with at least 10 deaths in one single accident will be put on the list," Huang Yi, a spokesman with the State Administration of Work Safety (SAWS), told a press conference.