【Ministry of Emergency Management’s Special Inspection 2022】02—In Qinghai, the safety assessment report for a key hazard associated with one of the top 50 enterprises was inaccurate

The safety assessment report for major hazard sources is inaccurate, and the key process parameters are not in compliance. \"Whether the safety assessment report is accurate is a matter related to the fundamental safety of an enterprise; it is the most critical issue for such companies.\" ”Experts from the supervision and inspection team pointed out. However, during this actual inspection, it was found that the external safety protection distance of the enterprise indicated in Asia Silicon Industry’s major hazard assessment report was inaccurate. Experts explain that, according to relevant regulations, sensitive facilities such as residential areas, schools, and hospitals are not allowed to be located within a certain distance around hazardous chemical enterprises. In the risk assessment report for Asia’s silicon industry, the contour maps of individual risks do not match the textual descriptions; it is not specified whether the calculations of individual risks were based on new installations or existing ones, which in turn affects the accuracy of the external safety distances. Experts point out that this is due to an evaluation error by the safety assessment agency; although it has not had any actual consequences so far, it represents a safety hazard, and companies need to take action to rectify the situation as soon as possible. Vaporizing liquid chlorine in the liquid chlorine cylinders is an important part of the production process; however, experts from the supervision and inspection team found that Asia Silicon Industry failed to meet the relevant standard specifications regarding the process control parameters for the temperature of the hot water used in this vaporization process. Experts say, “This will affect subsequent processing operations and may lead to accidents.” ”

Companies lack a strong sense of security, and their managers are unable to identify the unresolved safety hazards. Asia Silicon Industry currently has 12 major hazard sources, with 4 each of level two, three, and four major hazard sources. However, these major sources of hazard have not received sufficient attention from the enterprise. It was learned that at the end of June this year, the Emergency Management Department of Qinghai Province sent a working group to Asia Silicon Industry for a safety inspection, during which 19 safety hazards were identified. To date, the company has addressed 11 of these hazards, while 8 remain unresolved. “What are these 8 unresolved safety hazards? Which categories do they all belong to? ”Faced with the questions from the head of the supervision and inspection team, the company’s management and the person in charge of production safety were unable to provide answers. “If you can’t remember even this, then what are you managing? Don’t you know who among your leaders is supposed to do what and who isn’t? ”“This shows that the company’s management lacks even basic safety awareness. ”The head of the supervision and inspection team emphasized that the problems identified during this inspection also fully confirm this point. Chlorine, which is commonly used in industrial production, is a highly toxic gas; yet there isn’t a single hazard warning sign throughout the entire facility that details the dangerous properties of chlorine and similar information. In the liquid chlorine cylinder warehouse, 20-ton liquid chlorine cylinders are stored there, but there are no emergency response cards for leaks from these chlorine cylinders in the warehouse. The company has only a brief set of instructions on an emergency response card located at the entrance to the warehouse, describing the procedures to take in case of cylinder leaks. “Such an approach is completely pointless and useless in the event of an accident. ”Experts from the supervision and inspection team pointed out that this reflects problems in the company’s emergency response capabilities.

The enterprise’s liquid chlorine cylinders are stored in the warehouse, but there are no safety signs in the warehouse

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At the end of June this year, the Emergency Management Department of Qinghai Province sent a team to Asia Silicon Industry for a safety inspection, identifying 19 safety hazards in total. To date, the company has addressed 11 of these hazards, while 8 remain unresolved. “What are these 8 unresolved safety hazards? Which categories do they all belong to? ”Faced with the questions from the head of the supervision and inspection team, the company’s management and the person in charge of production safety were unable to provide answers. “If you can’t remember even this, then what are you managing? Don’t you know who among your leaders is supposed to do what and who isn’t? ”“This shows that the company’s management lacks even basic safety awareness. ”The head of the supervision and inspection team emphasized that the problems identified during this inspection also fully confirm this point.

Most companies focus on economic development, with everything else being merely a formality; especially when it comes to senior managers, who hold this attitude and this mindset. How can there be any safety? I believe that whenever one case is discovered, it should be punished severely. Only by making the leaders feel the pain too can we draw their attention!

The situation encountered during the inspection last year: On June 22, while the supervision and inspection team was inspecting a company, an employee from that company kept complaining behind the team, saying, \"When it was under the jurisdiction of the district, no one came to inspect; now that it’s under the city’s jurisdiction, people keep coming to inspect every day.\" ”“Check every day; keep checking, and when it stops, that’s fine. ” In recent years, especially since the explosion in Xiangshui on March 21, 2019, safety inspections, comprehensive safety audits and rectifications, special inspections, and targeted oversight have followed one after another. These have become common terms and also represent a key focus for safety regulatory authorities. Administrative law enforcement inspections for work safety are carried out by the **competent authorities and departments responsible for work safety supervision. These authorities take into account the current situation regarding work safety, recent accidents, as well as local supervision efforts. In accordance with the planned inspection schedule, and based on the nature and characteristics of each enterprise, they determine the contents of the inspections in accordance with the law. Such inspections aim to identify potential hazards, harmful factors, and defects in the enterprises’ production and operation processes, to monitor and examine these issues, to determine the status of such hazards, harmful factors, and defects, as well as the conditions under which they could lead to accidents. The authorities also urge enterprises to develop corrective measures to eliminate these hazards and harmful factors, thereby ensuring work safety. Administrative law enforcement inspections for work safety are a form of administrative law enforcement in the field of work safety; they represent a means to achieve the objectives of such law enforcement and to maintain order in accordance with the law. They constitute the main approach to safety supervision and an important way to ensure effective work safety measures. Administrative law enforcement inspections for work safety are processes, means, and methods that reflect the precautionary approach; hazard management is the core element. Identifying hazards, addressing them, and ensuring safety are the objectives of safety supervision. Against the backdrop of increasingly stringent safety regulations, as well as growing demands for enterprises to implement safety responsibility systems and to be held accountable for safety incidents both after they occur and in advance, many enterprises continue to engage in illegal and non-compliant production practices; there are still a large number of potential accident hazards, and some enterprises can even be described as having \"serious hazards\" that are \"alarming\". At present, the self-regulation mechanisms of many domestic enterprises are not yet sound; these enterprises do not proactively carry out the identification and resolution of potential hazards nor the reporting of serious ones. They are unable to detect potential accident hazards on their own, such hazards are not recorded or reported as required, and they often remain concealed. Therefore, we cannot simply rely on most enterprises to voluntarily increase investment in work safety, actively strengthen and improve work safety management, and meet the requirements for safe production. On the contrary, a considerable degree of distrust must be held toward these \"unreliable\" enterprises with regard to their awareness, initiative, and sense of responsibility in ensuring safe production; external pressure must be employed to bring to light any potential accident risks. Safety supervision authorities must, through strict monitoring measures and severe penalties, proactively identify and address violations of safety regulations by enterprises, urge them to strictly abide by safety rules, enforce laws and regulations, and rectify such violations as well as potential accident hazards. As a comprehensive inspection system, administrative law enforcement inspections for work safety exert an obvious, extensive, and positive role in supervising and guiding work safety efforts. Regardless of the type of safety inspection, each such inspection and rectification exercise serves, to a greater or lesser extent, as a means of providing warnings, exerting pressure, facilitating corrections, and promoting improved safety practices in enterprises; it is not merely a formality. Especially during periods when seasonal, periodic, or industry-specific accidents are frequent or when sensitive situations arise, safety enforcement inspections indeed serve as a warning to enterprises with potential hazards, prompting them to suspend operations and carry out rectifications. This plays an invaluable role in preventing the occurrence of accidents. Although some campaign-style health checks that involve the whole family taking medicine when one person falls ill have been widely criticized by companies, there is a consensus that such checks are necessary. How to conduct inspections and how to enhance the depth and effectiveness of law enforcement inspections are the key issues. It is worth acknowledging that, overall, **the level, depth, and effectiveness of safety supervision and law enforcement have been improving. In particular, high-standard, high-level enforcement inspections are equivalent to companies getting top-tier expert doctors to diagnose their problems for free. If a company finds such things troublesome, dislikes them, or is full of complaints, then it will gradually suffer from more serious problems. China’s Emergency Management Agency states that while the safety hazards present in enterprises are indeed alarming, the hazards related to mindset and awareness are even more serious. Complaining doesn’t solve problems; sometimes only repentance can lead to improvement.