Guidelines for emergency preparedness for production safety accidents of hazardous chemical companies released

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According to the website of the Ministry of Emergency Management, the General Office of the Ministry of Emergency Management has recently issued the "Guidelines for Emergency Preparedness for Production Safety Accidents in Hazardous Chemical Enterprises").

Article 3 Making emergency preparations for production safety accidents in accordance with the law is the main task of hazardous chemicals enterprises in carrying out emergency management of production safety, and is an important part of implementing the main responsibility of production safety.

Emergency preparedness should run through all links and the whole process of safe production of hazardous chemicals enterprises.

Hazardous chemicals companies should follow the law of production safety emergency work, follow laws and regulations, combine actual conditions, and on the basis of risk assessment, continue to carry out emergency preparations for the characteristics and hazards of production safety accidents that may occur.

Article 4 The content of emergency preparedness mainly consists of ideology, organization and responsibilities, laws and regulations, risk assessment, plan management, monitoring and early warning, education training and drills, duty guard, information management, equipment and facilities, rescue team construction, emergency handling and rescue , Emergency preparedness and recovery, funding guarantee and other elements.
Each element consists of several items.

Element 1: Ideas and concepts.
Ideas are the source and guidance of emergency preparedness.
Hazardous chemical companies must adhere to the people-oriented, safe development, life first, and scientific rescue concepts, establish a red line awareness of safe development and a bottom line thinking of risk prevention and control, and carry out emergency preparedness in accordance with laws and regulations.

This element includes four projects: red line awareness of safety development, bottom line thinking of risk prevention and control, legalization of emergency management and life first, and scientific rescue.

Element 2: Organization and responsibility.
A sound organization and clear responsibilities are the organizational guarantee for enterprises to carry out emergency preparedness.
The main person in charge of a hazardous chemical enterprise shall be fully responsible for the emergency work of the unit's production safety accidents, establish and improve an emergency management organization, clarify the division of responsibilities in each link of emergency response, command, disposal, rescue, and recovery, and implement it in detail in the post.

This element includes two items: emergency organization and responsibility tasks.

Element 3: Laws and regulations.
The current laws and regulations are the main basis for enterprises to carry out emergency preparedness.
Hazardous chemicals companies should identify the latest production safety laws and regulations, standards and related documents in a timely manner, and translate their requirements into corporate emergency management rules and regulations, operating procedures, testing specifications, and management tools, and carry out emergency preparedness in accordance with laws and regulations.

This element includes three projects: identification of laws and regulations, transformation of laws and regulations, and establishment of an emergency management system.

Element 4: Risk assessment.
Risk assessment is the foundation for enterprises to carry out emergency preparedness and rescue capacity building.
Hazardous chemicals companies must use bottom-line thinking to comprehensively identify various safety risks, and use scientific methods for risk analysis and evaluation to achieve comprehensive risk identification, in-depth risk analysis, scientific risk assessment, accurate risk classification, and effective prevention and response measures.
Use scenario construction technology to accurately reveal small-probability and high-consequence "catastrophe accidents" of the company, and carry out targeted emergency preparedness.

This element includes four items: risk identification, risk analysis, risk evaluation, and scenario construction.

Element 5: Plan management.
The targeted and operability emergency plan is a "planning blueprint" for enterprises to develop emergency preparedness and rescue capabilities, a "special teaching material" for emergency rescue training for practitioners, and a "operational guidance plan" for rescue operations.
Hazardous chemical companies should form an emergency plan preparation team to carry out risk assessment, emergency resource survey, rescue capability assessment, and prepare emergency plans.
It is necessary to strengthen the management of the plan, strictly review, sign, publish and record the plan; evaluate and revise the plan in a timely manner to enhance the pertinence, practicality and operability of the plan.

This element includes three projects: plan preparation, plan management, and capacity improvement.

Element 6: Monitoring and early warning.
Monitoring and early warning are important measures for enterprise production safety accident prevention and emergency response.
Monitoring is the basis for timely warning of accidents, effective prevention and reduction of accidents, and reduction and elimination of accident hazards.
Early warning is based on accident prediction information and risk assessment results, according to the degree of possible harm, scope, urgency and development trend of the accident, to determine the level of early warning, formulate early warning measures, and release and implement them in a timely manner.

This element includes three items: monitoring, early warning classification, and early warning measures.

Element 7: Education, training and drills.
Education, training and drills are effective measures for enterprises to popularize emergency knowledge, improve their emergency response skills, and master emergency plans.
Hazardous chemical companies should carry out targeted knowledge education, skill training and plan drills for practitioners (including contractors and rescue agreement parties) to enable practitioners to master necessary emergency knowledge, risk prevention skills and emergency response measures appropriate to their positions.
It is necessary to establish emergency education and training evaluation files for practitioners, and truthfully record the time, location, personnel, content, teachers and evaluation results of education and training.

This element includes three items of emergency education and training, emergency drills, and drill evaluation.

Element 8: watch on duty.
On-duty is an important measure for enterprises to ensure the smooth flow of accident information and rapid emergency response, and it is an important part of enterprise emergency management.
Hazardous chemical companies should set up emergency duty guard institutions, establish a sound duty guard system, set up fixed office spaces, complete work equipment and facilities, and be equipped with specialized personnel to be on duty around the clock to ensure smooth emergency information and efficient command and dispatch.
Large-scale, high-risk hazardous chemicals production, operation, and storage enterprises shall set up emergency response technical teams and implement 24-hour duty.

This element includes three items: emergency watch, accident information receiving and reporting, and external notification.

Element 9: Information Management.
Emergency information is the technical support for enterprises to quickly predict, study and judge accidents, promptly activate emergency plans, quickly mobilize emergency resources, and implement scientific rescue.
Hazardous chemical companies should collect and sort out information such as laws and regulations, basic company conditions, production processes, risks, major hazards, hazardous chemical safety technical specifications, emergency resources, emergency plans, accident cases, auxiliary decision-making and other information, and establish interconnected and shared emergency information system.

This element includes two items: emergency rescue information and information assurance.

Element 10: Equipment facilities.
Equipment and facilities are "combat weapons" for enterprise emergency response and rescue operations, and an important guarantee for emergency rescue operations.
Hazardous chemicals enterprises shall, in accordance with the requirements of relevant standards, regulations and emergency plans, be equipped with emergency equipment and facilities, strengthen maintenance and management, and ensure that the equipment and facilities are in a sound and reliable state.
Carry out equipment use training frequently, and master equipment performance and use methods proficiently.

This element includes three items of emergency facilities, emergency materials and equipment, and maintenance and management.

Element 11: Rescue team building.
The rescue team is the professional team and main force for enterprises to carry out emergency response and rescue operations.
Hazardous chemical companies should establish emergency rescue teams (or designate part-time rescuers and sign rescue service agreements) in accordance with the current laws and regulations, provide necessary personnel, equipment, and materials, strengthen education, training and business training to ensure that rescuers have the necessary Professional knowledge, rescue skills, protection skills, physical fitness and psychological quality.

This element includes four items: team setup, ability requirements, team management, public announcement and mobilization.

Element 12: Emergency response and rescue.
Emergency handling and rescue are the primary tasks after the accident, including two aspects: self-rescue by the enterprise and external rescue.
Hazardous chemicals enterprises must establish a command and coordination mechanism under unified leadership, carefully organize, strict procedures, correct measures, scientific rescue, and achieve rapid, powerful, orderly and effective rescue.
It is necessary to persist in saving children early, move the border forward, and focus on emergency handling of posts to avoid casualties, and the expansion and escalation of accidents.
Education and training should be strengthened, and brutal behaviors such as blind rescue and risky disposal should be eliminated.

This element includes eight items including emergency command and rescue organization, basic principles of emergency rescue, response classification, overall response procedures, post emergency procedures, on-site emergency measures, emergency response to key monitoring of hazardous chemicals, and coordination with the government for emergency response.

Element 13: Emergency Preparedness and Recovery.
The accident broke the company's original production order and emergency preparedness normal.
Hazardous chemical companies should carry out emergency resource consumption assessments after the accident rescue is over, timely repair, update, and supplement, and return to the normal state of emergency preparedness.

This element includes three items: post-event risk assessment, emergency preparedness and recovery, and emergency response assessment.

Element 14: financial security.
Fund guarantee is an important prerequisite for emergency preparedness.
Hazardous chemicals companies should pay attention to and strengthen prior investment, guarantee and implement the fund budgets required for monitoring and early warning, education and training, materials and equipment, plan management, and emergency drills.

The expenses incurred by the external rescue team involved in rescue shall be reimbursed in accordance with the law.

This element includes two items of emergency fund budget and rescue expenses.

Article 5 This guide has detailed and clarified the main content of all items of each element of emergency preparedness in accordance with the current relevant laws and regulations.
For details, please refer to the appendix "Emergency Preparation Worksheet for Production Safety Accidents of Hazardous Chemical Enterprises".

(1) Emergency preparedness for production safety accidents of hazardous chemical enterprises includes but is not limited to the elements listed in the annex and their items and contents.
The elements listed in the annex and their items and contents are the minimum requirements of the current laws and regulations for emergency preparedness for production safety accidents of hazardous chemical enterprises.

(2) Hazardous chemicals enterprises should combine their actual conditions and enrich the content of emergency preparedness based on existing elements and projects.
According to actual needs, the elements of emergency preparedness can be reasonably increased and specific items and contents can be clarified.

(3) Hazardous chemicals enterprises should strengthen the identification and transformation of laws and regulations, and timely improve emergency preparedness elements and their items, content and basis to ensure that emergency preparedness for production safety accidents continues to meet the requirements of current laws and regulations.

Hazardous chemicals enterprises should establish and improve emergency preparedness work systems based on actual conditions, and solidify the implementation paths and methods of emergency preparedness mentioned in this guide in enterprise emergency management, so as to make emergency preparedness concrete and normalized.

Article 6 This guide is an important tool for hazardous chemical companies to carry out emergency preparedness work in accordance with the law and an important content of emergency management training for production safety.
The main person in charge of a hazardous chemical enterprise shall strengthen the organization and leadership, formulate a training plan for all employees, and carry out systematic training on an element-by-element basis.

Article 7 Hazardous chemicals enterprises shall regularly carry out emergency preparedness inspections of various forms and different elements, and use the inspections as an important basis for enterprise rewards and punishments to continuously improve the level of emergency preparedness.

Article 8 The emergency management departments of governments at all levels, other departments responsible for the supervision and management of hazardous chemical production safety, and the higher-level companies (groups) of hazardous chemical enterprises can flexibly choose according to the various elements listed in the appendix and their items, content and basis.
Supervise and inspect the emergency preparedness work of hazardous chemical companies by methods such as seminars, information review, on-site inspections, oral questions, actual operations, and written tests.

Article 9 The meaning of the following terms in this guide:

Emergency preparedness is based on risk assessment, guided by advanced ideas and concepts, for the purpose of preventing and responding to production safety accidents, for accident monitoring and early warning, emergency response, emergency rescue and emergency preparedness recovery, etc.
, before an accident occurs The general term for ideological preparation, plan preparation, mechanism preparation, resource preparation, etc.
carried out.

Risk assessment refers to the identification of various safety risks based on "Classification and Code of Hazardous and Harmful Factors in Production Process", "Identification of Major Hazard Sources of Hazardous Chemicals", "Catalogue of Occupational Hazard Factors", etc.
, using qualitative and quantitative analysis, historical data, and experience Judgment, case comparison, inductive reasoning, scenario construction and other methods, analyze the possibility of accidents, accident forms and their consequences, evaluate the degree of harm and scope of influence of various consequences, and propose the process of accident prevention and emergency measures.

Scenario construction refers to the risk assessment technology based on risk identification, analysis and evaluation of small probability and high consequence accidents.

Attachment: Emergency Preparedness Worksheet for Production Safety Accidents of Hazardous Chemical Enterprises

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