The accident serves as another warning: safety measures at the end of the year must be ensured in all five aspects”

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On December 16, an explosion occurred at the Xiangyang Coal Mine in Xiangyang District, Hegang City, Heilongjiang Province. The latest news is that 33 miners have been safely brought to the surface, while there is no hope of saving the 19 people still trapped. On December 17, an fire broke out at Xingli Mining Co., Ltd., belonging to Lianshan Molybdenum Industry Group in Huludao City, Liaoning Province, due to welding work in a ventilation shaft, resulting in 17 deaths. Accidents like this are heartbreaking. Work safety is an old topic. Since the beginning of this year, the overall number of work safety accidents across the country has continued to decline. However, severe and major accidents still occur from time to time in certain industries, causing serious harm and negative impacts. This reflects the weak and unstable foundation of current work safety efforts, as well as the severity of the work safety situation. Work safety accidents once again serve as a warning to us. As holidays approach, it is even more necessary to strengthen our sense of urgency and maintain strict attention to work safety by ensuring the ‘five essentials’ are in place. A sense of responsibility must be in place. In safe production, people are the key. In accordance with the requirements of \"shared responsibilities for the Party and government, dual responsibilities for each position, and accountability for dereliction of duty,\" relevant departments must perform their respective duties, take responsibility for their tasks, and ensure proper oversight in order to eliminate gaps in supervision and close loopholes in management. The responsibility for accidents that have occurred must be determined, and those responsible must be held accountable. Only with proper accountability can effective supervision be ensured. Supervision and inspection must be thorough. Strengthen inspections and supervision of relevant enterprises, avoiding mere formalities and leaving no blind spots; thoroughly identify potential risks, require rectification within a set time frame, and conduct follow-up checks and evaluations of the effectiveness of such rectifications. Enterprise safety inspections should be conducted on a regular basis, and such inspections need to be institutionalized. The standards for each production process must be established in a fixed manner, so that safety hazards can be identified and eliminated as early as possible ； The safety supervision departments with regulatory responsibilities and **should regularly visit enterprises in person, conducting both open and secret inspections, in order to assist and guide them in identifying and addressing potential hazards. Technological means must be in place. The approach of using technological progress to improve the safety production coefficient is being promoted in many places. “Pilots for \"replacing workers with machinery and reducing labor needs through automation\" have been carried out in coal mining enterprises. Technological solutions such as online monitoring and alarm systems for coal mine gas concentration, as well as safety production monitoring and control systems, help improve enterprises’ scientific management levels, prevent risks, and provide a reliable guarantee for safe production. Safety training must be thorough. In key industries where safety in production is of paramount importance, such as coal mines, warehouses, and logistics companies, the educational level of workers varies. It is necessary to strengthen training on safe production by using engaging and practical methods, so that safety education does not remain merely in the form of slogans or posters on walls, but is instead firmly ingrained in people’s minds as a matter of conscious behavior. Some coal mines and stations have turned the key points of safe production into catchy slogans; they conduct safety training before each shift and pay close attention to the mental state of their employees, which helps to prevent problems before they arise. Emergency plans must be in place. Many places and enterprises have developed emergency response plans, but some of these plans are not practical enough and remain on paper, stored in drawers. In daily life, many people treat disaster prevention and evacuation drills as a joke, going through the motions in a casual manner. Little do they know that when a disaster actually strikes, there will be no way to escape. Emergency response plans must be tested through actual drills in order to be continuously improved. This process helps to strengthen the preparation of emergency rescue teams, equipment, and supplies, as well as to enhance the public’s skills in escaping, thereby reducing losses of life and property in case of disasters.