The State Council’s Work Safety Committee has issued an urgent notice to resolutely prevent and curb serious and extremely serious accidents.

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2019-03-26

According to a March 25 announcement on the website of the Ministry of Emergency Management, the State Council’s Work Safety Committee recently issued an urgent notice, calling for earnest implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions regarding the “3·21” explosion at Jiangsu Xiangshui Tianjiayi Chemical Co., Ltd. The notice sets out measures to further strengthen current work on workplace safety and resolutely prevent and curb serious and extremely serious accidents. It emphasizes the need to assume responsibility with courage and commitment, and to fully shoulder the political duty of ensuring safety and maintaining stability. The notice also stresses the strict enforcement of the Regulations on the Accountability System for Work Safety of Local Party and Government Leading Cadres, ensuring that work‑safety responsibilities are firmly assigned and rigorously implemented at every level and across all departments and units, thereby safeguarding the fundamental foundation of workplace safety.

According to a March 25 announcement on the website of the Ministry of Emergency Management, the State Council Work Safety Committee recently issued an urgent notice, calling for the earnest implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions regarding the “3·21” explosion at Jiangsu Xiangshui Tianjiayi Chemical Co., Ltd. The notice also lays out measures to further strengthen current work on workplace safety and resolutely prevent and curb serious and extremely serious accidents.

The notice emphasizes the need to courageously assume responsibility and earnestly fulfill the political duty of ensuring safety and maintaining stability. It calls for the strict implementation of the Regulations on the Accountability System for Work Safety of Local Party and Government Leading Cadres, ensuring that work‑safety responsibilities are firmly assigned at every level and across all departments and units, thereby safeguarding the fundamental foundation of work safety. In response to the underlying and root causes of accidents that have been exposed, it urges a thorough review and reflection, addressing concrete problems and effectively elevating work‑safety efforts to a new level.

The notice requires that lessons be thoroughly learned and a comprehensive, focused campaign be launched to identify and address safety hazards associated with hazardous chemicals. A special assessment of the local safety situation involving hazardous chemicals must be conducted, and all enterprises engaged in nitration processes or the production and storage of nitrated compounds are to undergo a thorough inspection and inventory. Immediate targeted safety remediation efforts should be initiated, risk assessments carried out across all chemical industrial parks, and any major safety hazards promptly eliminated. At the same time, drawing broader lessons from this incident, in-depth inspections and rectification of safety hazards should be undertaken in other sectors, including coal mines, non‑coal mines, road traffic, fire safety, and construction, to rigorously prevent the occurrence of all types of accidents.

The notice emphasizes the need to be bold and resolute, and to continuously strengthen safety‑related law enforcement. It calls for properly balancing stringent enforcement with the “delegation, regulation, and service” reform and inspection activities—avoiding both superficial, short‑lived campaigns and lax, ineffective oversight. Enforcement must be truly effective, with strict legal penalties imposed on enterprises and their responsible persons that disregard laws and regulations and endanger lives. Furthermore, it urges the in-depth deployment of “expert guidance teams” and “safety‑enforcement service teams” to help grassroots authorities address shortcomings in specialized regulatory capacity. Finally, it stresses the full utilization of methods such as the “four noes and two straights” approach—conducting both open inspections and undercover visits—and the regular organization of follow‑up reviews.

The notice calls for bolstering emergency preparedness to respond effectively, in an orderly and robust manner, to all types of accidents and disasters. It emphasizes strengthening disaster consultation and analysis, enhancing geological hazard forecasting and early warning, and strictly enforcing the 24-hour on-duty system for leading officials and the information reporting regime. The national integrated fire and rescue teams and specialized work safety rescue teams are required to reinforce their on‑call and standby arrangements, intensify professional technical and tactical training, and ensure rapid response and efficient, safe handling when critical situations arise.

Source: Observer Network

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