Lou Qinjian, secretary of the CPC Jiangsu Provincial Committee, stressed the need to tighten workplace safety supervision and punishments for offenders when going on an inspection tour to Taizhou city on Wednesday. He made the remarks one week after the deadly chemical plant blast in Xiangshui County that has claimed 78 lives.
Taizhou registers many chemical enterprises and Taixing Economic Development Zone is the earliest professional fine chemical industry park in the country. At present, the industry park settles more than 120 enterprises from more than 20 countries and regions, and 60% of them are chemical enterprises.
Lou Qinjian said that safety production involves management, production, operation and other aspects. The government's supervisory responsibility should be further strengthened and implemented, but ultimately it must be implemented in the daily operation of the enterprise, focusing on the main responsibility of the enterprise.
He asked enterprises to truly understand the various aspects and the whole process of workplace safety and strengthen management to optimize safety prevention and control measures, and improve safety production capacity through technological advancement. Solid waste should be stacked in accordance with scientific standards and intelligently monitored in real time.
Attention should be paid to the safety control of the production process, storage and transportation, the interior of the plant, the pipe corridor and other public facilities, he said.
At Xinpu Chemical (Taixing) Co., Ltd., Qin Qin made in-depth understanding of the company's safety and environmental protection practices, the difficulties faced and the problems that need to be solved, stressing that enterprises must fulfill the responsibility of safety production, which is the basis of safety production and the most effective guarantee. Concerning the company's recommendations on the systemic capacity building of hazardous waste treatment and the importance of training the employees of chemical enterprises, Lou said that the provincial government will seriously study and promote the solution.
The problem of pollution plots on the south side of No.1 Bridge in Taixing Economic Development Zone is one of the rectification issues of the feedback from the Central Environmental Protection Inspector. On November 20 last year, Lou Qinjian came here to check the progress of the rectification. More than four months later, he came here again to supervise the progress of rectification.
Seeing that the site was covered the closed greenhouse, and various disposal equipments were kept busy, Lou Qinjian made detailed inquiries into the excavation, transshipment and waste disposal, the progress of the disposal work, and what problems existed during the implementation. He emphasized that to implement the new development concept, it is necessary to raise self-consciousness, seek truth from facts, follow the rules, and solve environmental problems scientifically, effectively and objectively.
(source:ourjiangsu.com)
