【Ministry of Emergency Management’s Special Inspection 2022】04—41 issues and potential hazards identified in Puyang and Luoyang, Henan

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The last edit to this post was made by Desert Fish on 2022-7-18 at 11:07. This inspection process continues to use the method of inter-provincial mutual inspections: 2 cities are randomly selected from each province, and for each city, 1 chemical industrial park and 3 enterprises (2 manufacturing enterprises and 1 storage enterprise) are inspected. Special attention is paid to enterprises that store liquefied hydrocarbons such as ethylene, propylene, C4, and C5 in large-scale storage tanks； 10 enterprises in each province are randomly selected for online checks on their self-inspection efforts. Over the past few days, the supervision and inspection team has carried out inspections in Henan by reviewing documents, conducting random online checks, and performing on-site inspections of the petrochemical industry cluster in Luoyang City, the Puyang Economic and Technological Development Zone, enterprises that handle major hazardous materials, as well as oil and gas storage facilities. During the inspection of the Puyang Economic and Technological Development Zone, the supervision team found prominent issues such as an insufficient number of full-time supervisors. Liu Yang, deputy director of the First Department for Hazardous Chemicals Regulation at the Ministry of Emergency Management, said that if temporary experts are called in only in emergency situations to carry out tasks that should be performed by regular regulators, and there is a shortage of full-time regulators, then inadequate supervision is likely to occur. During this inspection of major hazard sources in Luoyang and Puyang in Henan Province, a total of 41 safety issues were identified, including 34 accident-related hazards (2 of which were major accident hazards) and 7 fire hazards. It is reported that the expert team sent to Henan for supervision and inspection was composed of senior engineers from the emergency management departments, as well as fire protection and chemical industry sectors in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Tianjin. Before the supervision by the Ministry of Emergency Management, all enterprises with major hazardous sources of hazardous chemicals in Henan Province had carried out self-inspections and self-corrections, and the Henan Provincial Department of Emergency Management organized comprehensive cross-checks.