Compare and check quickly! The State Council Safety Committee Office releases a list of 248 major safety hazards!

I. Overall Situation of Guidance and Services From late October to the end of December 2022, the Ministry of Emergency Management organized on-site inspections and quantitative assessments of the special rectification efforts carried out in 48 key counties (industrial parks) where the chemical industry is being relocated. Upon verification, the 48 key counties (industrial parks) for the relocation of the chemical industry, along with their respective provincial emergency management departments, are able to carry out inspections and rectifications in line with the objectives of controlling new developments, managing existing facilities, and improving the quality of these industrial parks, and have made positive progress in this regard. Of the 224 issues related to chemical parks identified in the first round of expert guidance services, 171 have been resolved, resulting in a resolution rate of 76.3%; the unresolved issues have been included in the \"one park, one strategy\" plan ； Of the 260 corporate issues assigned, 230 have been resolved, resulting in a resolution rate of 88.5%. Based on the evaluation, Anqing High-Tech Zone in Anhui, Huaibei Linhuan Chemical Industry Park, and Yunxi District in Yueyang, Hunan have performed relatively well in aspects such as achieving the \"four zero goals\" (that is, eliminating risks related to reaction safety assessments, completing the upgrade of automation control equipment, ensuring that all employees meet the required educational and qualification standards, and carrying out renovations in crowded areas), as well as in the improvement of the conditions within these parks; they rank among the top 3 ； The Leiping Industrial Park in Jiangxi, the Jiaocheng Economic Development Zone in Shanxi, and the Tumurtai Industrial Park in Inner Mongolia ranked in the bottom 3.

II. Main Issues Identified: During on-site inspections as part of the guidance and service efforts, 190 enterprises were examined (including 165 fine chemical enterprises). A total of 3,650 issues related to safety design were identified, along with 613 issues related to inadequate implementation of the \"four zero\" requirements. Among these, there were 248 serious safety hazards. It was recommended that 33 enterprises that did not meet safety production standards cease operations for rectification, and that 8 enterprises shut down their relevant facilities and equipment. The main problems are as follows: (1) The tendency to prioritize development over safety remains prominent. First, some projects were constructed without prior approval. None of the 13 enterprises brought in through investment promotion to the Tumurtai Chemical Deep Processing Industry Zone in Chayouhou Banner, Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia in 2016 obtained approval for the design of their safety facilities. The glycidyl methacrylate project of Junneng Chemical Company in Longnan Economic Development Zone, Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province failed to comply with the \"three simultaneities\" requirements. Second, the approval process for some projects is not strict enough. The design unit for the diazotization process project at Liaoning Anshan Qicai Chemical Company holds Class B qualification, which does not meet the requirement that projects classified as “two key areas and one major project” must be designed by units with Class A design qualifications. (II) The current situation of poor foundations and high risks has not been fundamentally changed. First, some enterprises have prominent hidden safety issues. The 19 enterprises inspected in Jiangxi had an average of 29.5 issues each, with an average of 2.6 serious hazards per enterprise. Among the 24 enterprises inspected in Gansu, 62.5% were advised to suspend operations for rectification or to shut down relevant facilities due to numerous serious safety hazards and lack of conditions for safe production. Second, some chemical industrial parks have a weak foundation. Four parks in Shanxi, Hunan, and Qinghai have not yet been approved. The Jiaocheng Economic Development Zone in Lüliang, Shanxi, lacks official recognition, has inadequate planning; labor-intensive non-chemical enterprises and chemical enterprises are built together within the zone, and the number of supervisors is insufficient.

(III) Safety design audits are a formality. Firstly, in some areas the work was poorly organized; design diagnostics were not carried out as required. In places such as Liaoning, some enterprises only had their own staff conduct self-inspections, while in 6 key counties (industrial parks) in Anhui, 80% of the enterprises did not receive diagnostics from Class A design firms. Second, some diagnostic reports have serious issues such as missing items, omitted items, and incorrect entries. During the verification, 2,943 issues were found in the design diagnosis reports, with an average of 16.4 issues per company; some companies failed to identify any significant design defects or problems such as unauthorized construction. Third, some diagnostic tasks are done perfunctorily. In some areas, the design diagnosis is not conducted carefully, with checklists being used in place of diagnostic reports. In Tongnan District, Chongqing, an average of 4.6 issues were identified per company during the design diagnosis, but upon further inspection by the expert team, it was found that there were many more problems, with an average of 26.3 issues per company.

(IV) The “four zeros” goal for fine chemical enterprises has not been fully achieved. First, the work in some areas is not thorough enough. “Looking back, the “review process” was merely a formality; the actual number of unresolved cases was not determined, and there was a huge discrepancy between the reported completion rates and the results of on-site inspections. Seven key counties in Hubei reported a clearance rate of 100%, while the on-site verification clearance rate was 11.5%. Second, the automated transformation and rectification efforts have not been thorough on multiple occasions, with issues recurring repeatedly. Among the enterprises inspected, 134 had issues related to automation upgrades; some of these enterprises reduced the standards for automated control in high-risk processes. Taibang Fine Chemicals Company in Chayouhouqi, Inner Mongolia, is involved in nitration processes, and the risk level of these reaction processes is grade 3, yet the production facilities there do not have automated control systems.

(5) Lax controls on the admission of practitioners and their training. First, the educational qualifications of the personnel do not meet the requirements. Among the 165 fine chemical enterprises inspected, 64.8% had employees whose educational qualifications did not meet the required standards. Second, some special-type workers are working without proper licenses. Among the 13 provinces inspected, 69.2% of them had cases of special operation personnel working without proper licenses; Chongqing Liyuan Chemical Co., Ltd., which deals with PLC and DCS control systems, had employees who did not possess the necessary licenses for working with chemical automation control instruments. Third, the skills of some employees do not match their job requirements. The production equipment at Wuwei Lianshuo Biotechnology Company in Minqin County, Gansu Province, which is used for nitration processes, is equipped with a DCS system, but the staff on duty do not know how to operate it.