The Xiangshui Chemical Industrial Park in Jiangsu has been closed

1. Closing a chemical industrial park appears to eliminate a hazardous area, but if people’s safety awareness is not improved, accidents can occur in other areas. 2. Should an safety accident occur in a certain industry, should that industry be shut down? I guess there won’t be anything to do in the end!

If it’s done this way, then what should be done regarding the forest fire in Xichang now? lol

The residents of Chenjia Town turned misfortune into fortune.

To be honest, I’ve been in this chemical industrial park for ten years now. Simply shutting things down isn’t a good solution. It’s been two weeks now, but what exactly caused the explosion? Why did such an incident occur? There must be a cause for everything. The enterprises here stopped production back in April last year; afterwards, there were demands for automated upgrades, along with various inspections. Are these inspections effective? Yes, but I’m skeptical as to whether their impact is significant enough. Some of the conclusions drawn by the State Council’s investigation team are correct – there is too much \"formalism\". Are the experts qualified? Do the leaders understand the subject matter? Have the safety improvements been properly implemented? I’ve also seen Tianjiayi’s 13 points for improvement; basically, all enterprises are required to address these issues. Does this have an impact on safe production? Yes, but can enterprises truly meet these requirements? Yes, check whether there was a follow-up inspection, whether the issues were resolved, and who conducted the acceptance? Also, it seems that this explosion is not related to these 13 potential hazards. The factors that currently hinder the development of enterprises are likely the three types of waste. Relying solely on the efforts of the enterprises themselves is not sufficient; coordinated action is necessary. The impact of this incident is severe, and the consequences are serious. After one accident after another, has the principle of \"not letting such incidents go unaddressed\" been followed? Have the relevant regulatory agencies truly taken action after each accident to prevent similar incidents from occurring again? Furthermore, how to integrate environment and development should be a matter for consideration by the local leaders of each chemical industrial park; it cannot be simply ignored.

The 13 corrective actions required by Tianjiayi are as follows: 1. The key personnel have not passed the assessments on safety knowledge and management skills; 2. Only one person among those engaged in special instrument-related tasks holds the necessary certification, which is insufficient to meet the actual needs of safe production; 3. The operating procedures for the production facilities are incomplete – there are no procedures specific to the benzene storage area nor any process technical specifications, and there is no system for routine inspections with clear requirements for such inspections; 4. After interlocks were installed in the nitration facility, the operating procedures were not updated or revised in a timely manner; 5. Some of the DCS and SIS pressure transmitters used in the dinitration reactors share the same pressure sensing point; 6. Emergency shut-off valves at the base of the tanks in the benzene and methanol storage areas, which constitute secondary major hazard sources, are not installed; 7. The shut-off valves for the hydrogen supply lines in some dinitration reactors are connected to bypass lines, and the interlocks are not functional; 8. The cabinet rooms and monitoring stations are located inside the nitration plant, which violates regulations; 9. The safety responsibility systems for certain positions do not match the actual production conditions of the company – for example, the procurement department does not set any requirements regarding the safety and quality of purchased products; 10. On-site management is poor, with frequent leaks; there are insufficient safety warning signs, some of which are unclear, and there are no wind direction indicators on site; 11. The management of hot work operations is not proper – for instance, some safety measures lack designated persons responsible for verification, and the results of flammable gas tests are recorded as “none” or “no flammable gases”; 12. There are no emergency measures in place to deal with leaks at the sites where benzene and methanol are loaded and unloaded. The filling points are located too close to the pump areas, the eye wash stations on site are damaged and lack water; 13. The operators interviewed on site were unaware of the settings for flammable gas alarms in the facility, nor of the emergency procedures to be followed in case of an alarm. The flammable gas alarms in the nitration workshop do not have visual alarm functions.

After it is shut down, how to deal with the soil and whether the factory needs to be relocated are decisions that are like cutting off one’s own arm in a act of determination. There are still many more who need treatment.

Shutting down chemical industrial parks merely means losing one source of income and a few migrant workers; it does not affect performance metrics. However, if safety or environmental accidents occur, it puts the leaders’ positions at risk. So it’s better to shut them all down, so as not to cause worries for those in leadership^_^^_^^_^

Well, everything has been shut down; everyone has switched to other industries, and we’re in a buying spree mode； Anyway, **there’s plenty of money**

It’s of no use; it doesn’t solve the problem at its root. If this chemical industrial park is closed, what can be done with that land used for chemical production? Abandoned? It’s better to be practical and do some real work to standardize and rationalize the chemical industrial parks!