The Office of the State Council Security Committee and the Emergency Management Department held a national video conference on production safety on the 5th to deploy a national special inspection and rectification of the storage safety of hazardous chemicals.
The relevant person in charge of the Emergency Management Department stated that my country is a major chemical country in the world. There are a large number of ports, docks, warehouses, storage yards, and transport vehicles and ships involving hazardous chemicals, and safety risks are increasing. The major explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, once again sounded the alarm for us.
The person in charge emphasized that it is necessary to immediately carry out a national special inspection and rectification of the storage safety of hazardous chemicals, focusing on ports, wharfs, logistics warehouses, and chemical parks. The emergency management department shall supervise the relevant production and operation enterprises to implement measures such as cooling, ventilation, and keeping away from fire in the storage process. It is strictly forbidden to store excessive amounts and varieties, and mixed storage of mutually contraindicated substances, and ensure relevant cooling sprays, monitoring alarms, and fire protection systems The installation facilities are intact and effective. Transportation departments and customs at all levels shall organize inspections of all ports, warehouses (dumping) yards and wharves involving hazardous chemicals, penalize unqualified safety conditions, excessive storage, illegal mixed storage, etc., and order rectification within a time limit. . The departments of industry and information technology, public security, and market supervision should organize the investigation and punishment of the illegal production, storage and use of ammonium nitrate and other civil explosives in accordance with the division of responsibilities, and implement the sales and purchase license approval and flow information registration system. The eco-environmental department shall conduct in-depth safety inspections of hazardous wastes and effectively implement safety precautions. All regions shall carry out a quantitative risk assessment of all storage places of explosive hazardous materials such as ammonium nitrate. We must insist on starting from the source, strictly implement the joint approval and strict control requirements of hazardous chemical production and storage projects, and scientifically and rationally arrange hazardous chemical production and storage enterprises.
