Hebei has formulated a plan for a concentrated campaign to improve workplace safety, with the hazardous chemicals industry as a key focus.

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2019-12-09

　Recently, the Hebei Provincial Work Safety Committee issued the “Implementation Plan for Further Deepening the Province-wide Concentrated Rectification of Work Safety,” under which, starting from today and continuing through the end of 2020, targeted safety rectification campaigns will be carried out across ten key industrial sectors, with particular emphasis on the hazardous chemicals industry.
　　According to reports, the concentrated rectification campaign will run from December 14, 2019, to November 30, 2020, followed by a “look-back” review and summary through the end of 2020. The effort will focus on the reckless, disorderly, and non‑compliant development of industries such as chemicals; on the weak safety awareness of enterprise leaders; and on their failure to take seriously or assume responsibility in areas including the establishment of workplace safety systems, risk prevention and control, hazard identification, routine inspections, and employee training—manifesting in practices such as falsification, violations of laws and regulations, and allowing enterprises to operate while harboring latent safety risks.
　　In the hazardous chemicals sector, in conjunction with the province-wide campaign to rectify and strengthen the chemical industry, priority will be given to addressing issues such as uncontrolled source‑level management, vacuous regulatory accountability, low intrinsic safety levels, failure to implement safety management systems, and slow progress in the campaign to upgrade the chemical industry.
　　In the chemical industrial park sector, key issues include failure to implement the two guidelines on risk‑based hazard identification and remediation for hazardous chemical enterprises and chemical parks; planning of chemical parks that does not align with local master‑plan requirements; investment promotion that is inconsistent with the park’s industrial positioning; the introduction of outdated, obsolete production capacity; compliance deficiencies in meeting regional safety‑risk‑capacity standards; the presence within the park of labor‑intensive non‑chemical enterprises that do not conform to its functional designation; and the existence, in the park’s vicinity, of densely populated facilities—such as villages and schools—that fail to meet prescribed safety‑buffer‑distance requirements.
　　In the chemical‑hazardous‑materials sector, key issues include: tank farms storing hazardous chemicals that constitute Level I or Level II major hazard sources lacking emergency shut‑off capabilities; Level I and Level II major hazard sources involving toxic gases, liquefied gases, or highly toxic liquids not being equipped with independent safety instrumented systems; in-service chemical units that have not undergone formal design or been subjected to a safety‑design review; and fine‑chemical enterprises that have failed to conduct reaction‑risk assessments as required.
　　In terms of corporate safety management systems, the focus is on addressing violations such as failure to implement leadership on‑duty and shift‑supervision arrangements, as well as the safety risk assessment and commitment‑announcement system; failure to establish a dedicated safety management body and appoint a chief safety officer in accordance with regulations; and failure to formulate and enforce a system for identifying and addressing production‑safety hazards.

Source: China Chemical Industry News

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