East China’s Jiangsu province has taken proactive measures to strengthen the supervision and management of the chemical industry, in particular the factories that produce hazardous chemicals, so as to maintain production safety at the source and promote the smooth progress of the special work safety programs by troubleshooting hidden dangers in a comprehensive way.
In March 2018, SuqianKesi Chemical Co., Ltd. invested 19 million yuan to start automation transformation.
By the end of last year, the company had installed automatic control systems and safety instrumented systems in 13 workshops and tank farms.
By reducing the workforce from 15 to 9, the automation process has also ensured production safety as the workers will not need to handle the raw materials by hand.
The company has also established an emergency monitoring center to initially build a security risk grading management and prevention mechanism for hidden danger investigation and management.
29 chemical plants in Suqian have undergone automation transformation to implement risk control at the front end of the source, which has effectively guaranteed the safe production in the hazardous chemical field.
The city of Suzhou has launched the work safety liability insurance in a bid to enhance the awareness of foresight and hindsight.
After the policy takes effect, in addition to claim settlement, the insurance company must also cooperate with the organization in charge of the technical service for the prevention of accident to provide targeted and professional risk prevention and control and technical services to the insured enterprises.
The insurance premium rate is subject to fluctuation according to the number of accidents and administrative penalties imposed on the hazardous chemical companies in the past three years.
In the meantime, Jiangsu has launched a new round of work safety inspection on the production and transportation of hazardous chemicals.
Since mid-April, Jiangsu has carried out safety risk rating assessments for 30 chemical industry parks across the province in a bid to implement targeted supervision that is graded and hierarchy-based.
Jiangsu has so far wrapped up the inspection on 3417 chemical plants that produces hazardous chemicals and dealt with 19170 hidden dangers with 13803 rectified.
133 violations have been punished, 12 chemical plants have been shut down while 80 have been suspended for rectification.
(Source:ourjiangsu.com)
