Who should pay for two chemical safety accidents in a day?

"Global Coatings Network News"

At about 2 pm on May 23, a fire broke out in Shanghai Xiangfeng Industrial Co.

Hazardous chemicals have always been a focus of safety production supervision and an industry field prone to accidents.

What factors caused the safety incident?

Once a security incident occurs, who should pay for it? Statistics show that more than 90% of accidents are caused by companies' illegal production, operation and construction.
Investigating its source involves many factors, such as production equipment, production technology, raw and auxiliary materials, operators, and working environment.
Therefore, there are unsafe factors in the entire process of paint production, use, storage, and transportation.
The reporter summarized from the public information, mainly in the following aspects:

1.
From the point of view of the causes of paint safety accidents, they are mainly divided into two categories: First, the resins, various solvents, additives, plasticizers, additives, etc.
in the paint are all organic substances, and most of them are easily Inflammable and combustible substances are easy to cause fire and explosion accidents; second, the paint contains formaldehyde, benzene and other substances harmful to the human body, which can easily cause occupational poisoning.

2.
From the paint production environment, there are also two main reasons: one is that most of the small and medium-sized paint companies’ production rooms are equipped with rudimentary equipment, and the layout of workshops and storage tanks is unreasonable and does not meet specifications; the other is the use of electrical There are many equipment such as electromechanical facilities, power distribution facilities, electrical circuits, exhaust fans, switches, etc.
, and there are unsafe factors such as selection and installation that do not conform to explosion-proof specifications, aging of wiring, and poor safety.

3.
Human unsafe behavior.
The production of coatings is ultimately controlled and controlled by humans, and human unsafe behaviors such as operating errors and illegal operations are still the main factors leading to accidents.

4.
There are many productive fire sources in the production process.
At present, in the coating production process, especially in the process of hot-refined paint and resin synthesis, in addition to the general use of steam and heat carrier heating, there is also the use of open flame heating; various electric ovens and electric furnaces are also used in trial production, inspection and analysis.
And other heating facilities; during the overhaul process, there are also fire sources such as electric (gas) welding, which increases the risk of fire and explosion in paint production.

How to prevent security incidents?

In safe production, enterprises should bear the main responsibility.
Coating companies should strengthen the awareness of safety management; improve the production environment and equipment, equip with safety equipment; improve production technology, proactively upgrade the industry, vigorously produce and promote low-carbon and environmentally friendly products; regularly check and eliminate potential safety hazards in the production process of the company.
All links are strictly controlled; the education and training of safe operation skills shall be strengthened, the prevention awareness and safety technical knowledge level of operators shall be strengthened, and their emergency handling capabilities shall be improved.

In addition to the responsibilities that enterprises should bear, the government's regulatory and guiding role cannot be ignored.
On May 9, 2017, the State Administration of Work Safety issued the "Implementation Measures for Joint Punishment of Untrustworthy Behaviors in the Field of Work Safety", which were made separately in terms of purpose basis, inclusion situation, management time limit, work responsibilities and procedures, and related safeguard measures.
Regulations.
The implementation of the "Implementation Measures" is effective, which is of great significance for fulfilling the main responsibility of enterprise safety production, improving the level of safety supervision and supervision, and speeding up the realization of a fundamental improvement in safety production.

Recently, the Ministry of Emergency Response issued the "Notice on Issuing the Guidelines for the Safety Risk Assessment and Diagnosis of Hazardous Chemicals Production and Storage Enterprises (Trial).
" The notice requires that the local safety supervision departments conduct safety risk assessment and diagnosis classifications for hazardous chemical companies in their jurisdictions.
The assessment and diagnosis adopts a hundred-point system.
According to the evaluation and diagnosis results, the hazardous chemical companies in the jurisdiction are classified as red (60 points) in descending order of risk.
Below), orange (60 to 75 points or less), yellow (75 to 90 points or less), and blue (90 points and above).
According to the classification situation, take targeted supervision measures to improve supervision efficiency.

At the policy level, the state is paying more and more attention to the management and control of hazardous chemicals.
It is hoped that local regulatory authorities and coating companies can take it seriously, strictly implement various safety production rules and regulations, and truly prevent them before they happen.
The upcoming June is the national "Safety Production Month", and it is also a period of high incidence of safety accidents every year.
There is still a tough battle to be fought by coating companies.