【Haichuan Chemical Accident Updates】Another confined space incident! An accident occurred during the dredging of a sewage ditch in Hubei Zhengda

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According to a report in the Chutian Metropolis Daily on April 26 (reporter Liu Lipeng), the Office of Hubei Province’s Work Safety Committee announced today that around 3 p.m. on April 23, an accident occurred at Hubei Zhengda Company in Suizhou High-Tech Zone while the company was carrying out work to clean out sewage ditches, resulting in 3 deaths. The specific cause of the accident is under further investigation. Following the accident, provincial leaders issued directives urging all regions to draw serious lessons from it, develop and improve relevant operating procedures, and strengthen safety measures in confined space operations carried out by production and business units, in order to prevent such accidents from occurring again. In its notice, the Office of the Hubei Province Work Safety Committee called for using the lessons learned from these accidents as a guide to urge enterprises to thoroughly identify and address any deficiencies. Supervisory inspections should be carried out on industrial, mining, commercial, and trading enterprises that are involved in work in confined spaces, handle explosive dusts, or use hazardous chemicals such as gas and liquid ammonia. Safety warning signs should be installed in a proper manner ； Establish and improve safety responsibility systems, work approval procedures, on-site safety management systems, and management systems for outsourced teams for work in confined spaces; urge enterprises to provide workers involved in such work (including inspectors) with ventilation and protection equipment, testing instruments, and rescue gear that meet the requirements of ** standards. The notice emphasizes that stricter measures and penalties will be imposed on issues such as the failure to carry out thorough inspections and rectifications of potential hazards, as well as the prevalence of violations of safety regulations. Enterprises with severe misconduct should be included in the list for joint punishment and monitored under a blacklist system.