Evidence collection issues for high-risk chemical processes under stringent supervision

\"Criteria for Identifying Major Potential Hazards in Production Safety Incidents in Chemical and Hazardous Chemicals Production and Operation Units\" (Trial) \"II. Special operation personnel working without proper certificates.\" ” The State Administration of Work Safety interprets this as follows: Special operation positions involve relatively high safety risks and require high levels of professional competence from the personnel involved. In recent years, accidents have occurred frequently due to untrained personnel without the necessary qualifications working in special operation roles. The \"5•13\" chlorine poisoning incident in Cangzhou, Hebei in 2017, the severe explosion incident on \"6•5\" in Linyi, Shandong, and the explosion incident on \"7•2\" in Jiujiang, Jiangxi – all of these incidents revealed the problem of people working in such roles without proper certifications and lacking the necessary professional skills, which led to these accidents. The Work Safety Law and the Provisions on the Administration of Safety Technology Training and Assessment for Special Operations Personnel (**Order No. 30 of the State Administration of Work Safety) set clear requirements regarding the training and corresponding qualifications for such personnel; for example, those engaged in special operations involving hazardous chemicals must have a high school education or an equivalent level of education or higher. According to the regulations, for special types of work involved in the production and operation of chemicals and hazardous chemicals, in addition to common types of work such as electrical work, welding and thermal cutting, and work at heights, these also include operations related to hazardous chemical processes, as well as the installation, repair, and maintenance of chemical automation control instruments (covering 15 types of hazardous processes including phosgene and phosgenation processes, chlor-alkali electrolysis processes, chlorination processes, nitration processes, ammonia synthesis processes, cracking processes, fluorination processes, hydrogenation processes, diazotization processes, oxidation processes, peroxidation processes, amination processes, sulfonation processes, polymerization processes, and alkylation processes, along with the installation, repair, and maintenance of chemical automation control instruments). Personnel engaged in the aforementioned tasks must undergo training and assessment to obtain a special operation permit. Those working without a license should be classified as major accident hazards. The wood pyrolysis unit incorporates both hydrogenation and pyrolysis (cracking) processes; operators of this unit must undergo training and assessment, and obtain special operation certificates for both hydrogenation and pyrolysis (cracking) processes.

Operating without obtaining the necessary certifications constitutes a serious safety hazard, as explicitly stated in the **20 Major Safety Hazards in the Chemical Industry**. And it is a penalty item