【Special Inspection by the Ministry of Emergency Management】In November, dozens of potential problems were identified in Guangzhou and Zhanjiang cities, including 6 major risks

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This post was last edited by Desert Fish on 2022-7-18 at 11:23. At the end of June and the beginning of July this year, reporters from Red Star News accompanied the sixth supervision and inspection team from the Ministry of Emergency Management to Guangdong, where they conducted supervision and inspections of enterprises handling major hazardous chemicals in Guangzhou and Zhanjiang. A total of 6 enterprises were inspected, and dozens of potential problems were identified, including 6 serious hazards. “Supervisory inspections were carried out using the “four no’s and two direct approaches.” In some companies, the combustible gas detection alarms were not in use. Members of the supervisory inspection team explained that the information on enterprises with major hazard sources in various regions is recorded in the database of the emergency management department, and it is only before the inspection begins that companies are randomly selected from this database for inspection. On June 29, the supervision and inspection team inspected two enterprises in Guangzhou and identified two major safety hazards. Specifically, the fire separation distances between the Class A warehouse of Xiaohu Island Petrochemical Logistics Co., Ltd. and the plant-wide fire control room as well as the fire pump room did not meet the required standards. The enterprise treated the fire control room as a Class C building and adopted lower standard fire separation distances ； The control room of Zengcheng Baisite Aditives Company lacks automated control systems, instrument alarms, and safety procedures for dealing with abnormal situations; moreover, no process control parameters have been established. Members of the supervision and inspection team told Red Star News reporters that the distance between storage facilities for major hazard sources and other buildings should meet **standard requirements, with sufficient safety distances maintained to prevent accidents from causing damage to key protected areas in the vicinity ； Each production post in hazardous chemicals enterprises should establish operating procedures and process control parameters, including the steps for handling situations both under normal and abnormal conditions. The above are the minimum requirements to ensure production safety. On July 1, the supervision and inspection team arrived in Zhanjiang. At Zhongguan Petrochemical Co., Ltd., the inspectors found that the combustible gas detection alarms installed in the analysis booth at the liquefied gas tank farm loading/unloading station were not in use, and the environmental monitoring data collectors in that booth were not explosion-proof ； No combustible gas detection and alarm devices are installed in the liquid hydrocarbon flare gas separation tank and valve bank area.