On June 6,
2019, the Safety Production Committee of People's Government in Dezhou City,
Shandong Province issued a Notice on
Further Strengthening Safety Management Measures for Chemical Industrial Parks (Notice). According to the Notice, an inspection and rectification
against insidious danger in chemical industrial parks will be fully executed
all around the city. Furthermore, investigations on unsound safety
administrative setup, defective safety facilities and imperfect administrative
measures will also be completely taken in the city. By the end of June 2020,
all rectification should meet the required standards.
As the Notice demonstrates, chemical industrial
parks that are located in sensitive points such as schools, hospitals and
resident areas, and that fail to be in line with the security protection
distance, will be required to move out within the commitment time. Labour-intensive
non-chemical enterprises that are located inside a chemical industrial park
will be confronted with a relocation or industry conversion. By the end of this
year, access control systems and video surveillance systems will be improved in
order to strengthen the management of personnel and vehicles in a chemical
industrial park. Besides, a measure of speed control within certain time will
be taken in terms of the vehicles with dangerous chemicals.
Chemical industrial parks with accidents causing
serious impacts to face disqualification
Due to the
fact that the factories in China tend to be grouped in Shandong Province,
safety management is of great significance. There were also production accidents
that took place in Dezhou before. Dating back to 2007 in Dezhou, a workshop of
Deqilong Chemical Group Co., Ltd. had an explosion during an expansion project
of 160 million t/a ammonia alcohol and 250 million t/a urea, causing 9 deaths
and injuring 1 victim. In 2014, an explosion in a chemical plant located in Pingyuan
County, Dezhou City caused 2 deaths and 7 injuries.
Hence,
according to the new policy, punishment for accidents taking place in a
chemical industrial park will become stricter. For a chemical industrial park
where a serious production accident happens, its application for any new
construction projects or expansion projects will be denied within one year,
except for those regarding the rectification against hidden danger or polluted
environment. For a chemical industrial park where a huge production accident leading
to a serious impact takes place, qualification of the park will be immediately cancelled.
Dezhou City to implement connected safety
and risk control supervision
In the
aspect of safety and risk control, all projects with uncontrollable risk will
be strictly forbidden in terms of safety. What’s more, projects with low
capacity and huge safety problems will be also restricted. Only projects of
technological transformation that can improve the safety during production will
be encouraged.
In the
meanwhile, enterprises suffering from high risk will be withdrawn from a chemical
industrial park. Enterprises that have a bad rate and not yet make any
rectification will face a shutdown within a definite time.
Besides, by
the end of 2019, big data and Internet of Things will be used to integrate
information resources, such as risk control, safety inspection and chemicals production.
The integration of online monitoring system, dynamic control, risk warning as well
as emergency command is very helpful for the improvement in production intelligence
and management modernization of a chemical industrial park.
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