The ``Regulations on Emergency Response to Work Safety Accidents'' will be implemented next month. What should chemical companies pay attention to?

Global Coatings Network News:

A few days ago, Premier Li Keqiang signed an order of the State Council to promulgate the "Regulations on Emergency Response to Work Safety Accidents" (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations"), which will come into force on April 1, 2019.

Improve emergency preparedness

"Emergency preparedness is the basic practical activity of emergency management work.
It is the organization, material, skill, and spirit preparations for eliminating hidden dangers, containing accident crises, and effectively responding to accidents and disasters.
" Sun Chunchang said that whenever a major event occurs After a dangerous situation or an accident, the focus of attention of the society and the public is often the effectiveness of emergency response and rescue, and the key factor that determines the effectiveness of emergency response and rescue is the usual level of emergency preparedness.

Shan Chunchang said that emergency response and rescue activities are the most direct and effective way to test the level of emergency preparedness.
Therefore, the "Regulations" regard emergency preparedness as the main task of strengthening emergency management, and regulate the basic content of safety production emergency preparedness in terms of emergency plan drills, emergency rescue teams, emergency material reserves, and emergency watchkeeping.

In Zhang Xingkai's view, formulating and revising the emergency rescue plan is the top priority of emergency work.
Article 5 of the "Regulations" stipulates that production and business units shall prepare emergency rescue plans based on the characteristics and hazards of possible accidents, the identification of hazards and the results of risk evaluation.
Article 6 requires that emergency rescue plans should comply with relevant laws, regulations, rules and standards, and be scientific, pertinent, and maneuverable; they should be subject to changes in laws and regulations, institutional responsibilities, resource conditions, major risks, or other changes.
Revise the emergency rescue plan in time.

"Emergency drills are an important task to ensure timely, scientific, efficient, and effective emergency response.
" Zhang Xingkai said that Article 8 of the "Regulations" stipulates that the production, operation and storage of flammable and explosive materials, hazardous chemicals, and other hazardous materials 1.
The transportation unit shall organize a production safety accident emergency rescue plan drill at least once every six months, and at the same time require relevant departments to conduct random inspections and drills.

Scientifically formulate emergency plans

On June 4 last year, the Office of the State Council’s Security Committee reported 8 accidents that resulted in increased casualties due to improper rescue operations.
In the 8 accidents, there were 8 people in distress at the beginning, but due to improper rescue, the casualties increased, resulting in 26 deaths and 7 injuries.
The lesson was painful.

Relevant experts said that the reasons are that the accident unit did not pay attention to emergency management, safety risk identification was not in place, on-site treatment measures lacked pertinence, emergency rescue treatment was improper, and reliable protective measures were not taken without clarifying the harmful factors.
Blindly rescued, resulting in increased casualties.
The second is that safety education and training are not in place, employees are seriously inadequate in safety awareness, and they are not clear about operating procedures.
The accident unit and on-site personnel lack basic common sense of emergency response and self-rescue and mutual rescue capabilities.

Li Guoqing, director of the Shandong Provincial Hazardous Chemicals Plugging Emergency Rescue Center, pointed out that when hazardous chemicals leak, fire, explosion, poisoning, etc.
, they must first be isolated, evacuated, and protective measures must be taken.
At the same time, inquiries and investigations should be conducted.
According to the process media Organize professional on-site emergency rescue and rescue, conduct leakage treatment for leakage accidents, study fire-fighting countermeasures for fire accidents, and launch fire fighting.
It should be emphasized that the fire fighting of chemical fires should be carried out by professional fire brigades, and other personnel should not act blindly.
After the fire brigade arrives, materials and media should be introduced to cooperate with the fire fighting.

"Currently, many companies have improperly formulated emergency measures, or have no emergency plans corresponding to the process at all.
Once an accident occurs, it will have very serious consequences.
" Zhao Jizhang, deputy director of the Dezhou Municipal Work Safety Supervision Bureau, pointed out that many accidents are sudden.
, Unpredictability, but the accident conditions and trends are still regular.
It is necessary to enhance the predictability and pertinence of the plan, and achieve the expected effect when an accident occurs.

After an accident occurs, responding positively and taking effective measures are the key to preventing the accident from expanding and reducing the loss of the accident.
The "Regulations" detailed the emergency rescue measures that production and business units should take after a production safety accident occurs.
The starting point is to highlight the first-time response, which is conducive to improving the timeliness and efficiency of rescue.