Management System for Identifying Potential Hazards in Work Safety Accidents

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1 Purpose and Scope of Application: In order to establish a long-term mechanism for identifying and addressing potential hazards in work safety, strengthen the primary responsibility for work safety, enhance supervision and management of such hazards, prevent and reduce accidents, and safeguard the life and property safety of the company’s employees, these regulations are formulated in accordance with laws and administrative regulations such as the Work Safety Law. This system applies to all departments and workshops of the company. 2. Bases: 2.1 Interim Provisions on the Investigation and Rectification of Potential Hazards in Work Safety Accidents; 2.2 Measures for the Investigation and Rectification of Serious and Major Potential Hazards in Work Safety Accidents in Shandong Province. 3. Responsible parties: Dispatch Center, Production Workshop, Safety and Fire Protection Department, Mechanical and Electrical Equipment Department, Laboratory. 4. Organizational structure: The company establishes a team for investigating potential hazards in work safety accidents, which is responsible for carrying out such investigations within the company. Group Leader: *** Deputy Group Leader: *** Members: *** *** *** *** *** 5 Definition and Classification The potential safety hazards in production referred to in these regulations (hereinafter referred to as safety hazards) are those dangerous physical conditions, unsafe human behaviors, and management deficiencies that may lead to accidents during production and business operations, resulting from violations by production and business units of laws, regulations, rules, standards, procedures, and safety management systems. Potential accident hazards are divided into general accident hazards and major accident hazards: 5.1 General accident hazards refer to those that pose a relatively low level of risk and are not difficult to rectify; they can be addressed immediately once identified. 5.2 Major accident hazards refer to those that pose a significant threat and are difficult to rectify; such hazards require complete or partial suspension of operations, and time is needed for corrective actions in order to eliminate them. They also include those that cannot be resolved by the production or business entity itself due to external factors. 6 System for Identifying and Addressing Safety Hazards 6.1 The company’s top management is fully responsible for identifying and addressing safety hazards within the company. They actively organize team members to establish and improve systems for identifying such hazards, keeping records of them, and monitoring them, ensuring that these tasks are carried out by every employee in the company. 6.2 The Safety and Fire Protection Department, in accordance with relevant laws and regulations as well as the safety inspection procedures established by the company, conducts inspections to identify potential hazards related to production safety throughout the factory area. It issues notices for rectifying these hazards promptly and keeps records of them. 6.3 When the inspectors from the Safety and Fire Protection Department carry out their duties of supervising and inspecting potential accident hazards in accordance with the law, all production workshops must cooperate actively and must not refuse or obstruct such inspections; failure to do so will result in penalties in accordance with the relevant regulations. 6.4 Upon receiving the notice regarding the rectification of potential accident hazards, each workshop shall, in accordance with its assigned responsibilities, immediately organize the verification and rectification of such hazards. For those hazards that cannot be rectified immediately, a plan shall be developed, and practical and effective measures shall be taken to monitor them. 6.5 The company’s finance department shall ensure the funding required for identifying and addressing potential accident hazards, and strictly implement the special regulations regarding the use of safety funds. 6.6 The workshop shall conduct statistical analysis of the identification and rectification of potential accident hazards on a monthly basis, and submit a written statistical analysis report to the Safety and Fire Protection Department by the 6th of the following month, with the signature of the workshop supervisor. 6.7 In the case of major potential accident hazards, the company’s Safety and Fire Protection Department is responsible for reporting them promptly to the county’s safety supervision and inspection authorities as well as relevant departments. The content of a report on major accident hazards shall include: (1) the current status of the hazard and its causes ； (II) Analysis of the severity of the potential hazards and the difficulty of rectification ； (III) Plan for addressing potential hazards. 6.8 For general potential accident hazards, the person in charge of the company’s branch factories or workshops, or relevant personnel, shall immediately organize corrective actions. For major accident hazards, the company’s principal responsible person shall organize the formulation and implementation of a plan for addressing those hazards. A plan for addressing major accident hazards shall include the following contents: (1) The objectives and tasks of the mitigation efforts ； (II) Methods and measures adopted ； (III) Provision of funds and materials ； (IV) Agencies and personnel responsible for governance ； (V) Time limits and requirements for governance ； (VI) Safety measures and emergency plans. 6.9 During the process of addressing potential accident hazards, the Safety and Fire Protection Department shall take appropriate safety precautions to prevent accidents from occurring. If safety cannot be ensured before or during the removal of potential accident hazards, workers in the hazardous area must be evacuated, as well as any other persons who may be at risk. Warning signs should be installed, and operations must be suspended temporarily or the equipment must stop being used ； For the relevant production and storage devices, facilities, and equipment that cannot be shut down or ceased in use for the time being, enhanced maintenance should be carried out to prevent accidents. 6.10 Strengthen the prevention of natural disasters. Regarding potential hazards that may lead to accident disasters due to natural disasters, it is necessary to conduct inspections and take corrective actions in accordance with relevant laws, regulations, standards, and the requirements of these provisions; reliable preventive measures should be implemented, and emergency plans should be formulated. Upon receiving forecasts of natural disasters, warning notices should be promptly sent to all departments of the company ； In cases where natural disasters may threaten the company’s production and the safety of its employees, safety measures such as evacuating personnel, stopping operations, and enhancing monitoring should be taken, and reports should be submitted to the relevant authorities promptly. 7 Penalties 7.1 If the heads of various departments fail to fulfill their responsibilities regarding the identification and resolution of potential accident hazards, resulting in a production safety accident, those department heads as well as the individuals directly responsible shall be fined 5% of their salary in accordance with the law, and they will also lose their monthly family support allowance. 7.2 If a workshop unit violates these regulations by engaging in any of the following behaviors, the Safety and Fire Protection Department shall issue a warning to it and impose a fine equal to 10% of the total wage amount of the workshop: 7.2.1 Failing to cooperate with safety inspectors, or refusing and obstructing law enforcement officers ； 7.2.2 Failure to submit the statistical analysis table on the identification and rectification of potential accident hazards in a timely manner as required. 7.2.3 Failure to develop a plan for addressing potential accident hazards ； 7.2.4 Failure to report or failure to report in a timely manner major accident hazards ； 7.2.5 Those whose rectification is not satisfactory, or those that resume production without the approval of the Safety and Fire Protection Department. 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