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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Tuesday, 25 August 2015 12:03
Massive blasts that hit Tianjin sounded an alarm to work safety. Ningbo Municipal Ministry of Transport has embarked on a three-month campaign to improve safety in hazardous chemicals transport, freight stations, ports storage, among others.
The special campaign targets transport businesses, vehicles, freight stations, water transport businesses, port work and storage businesses, among others. Regulators must take comprehensive approaches to examining each business, vehicle, port, station, tanker. And integrated inspection should be conducted as hazardous chemicals are transported, loaded and unloaded, stored, unboxed. More inspections must be made into businesses and operating sites dealing with massive, highly dangerous articles and problems and hidden dangers must be dealt with immediately.
A blanketing examination has been done on hazardous chemicals as they are produced, sold, stored, used, transported and disposed.
The inspection team is engaged by Zhenhai Administration of Work Safety, the Administration of Construction and Transportation and logistics. It works to conduct examinations of businesses on dangerous chemicals and petrochemicals. The team moves to ensure access controls of businesses are well placed, personnel is qualified, and chemicals are stored in a safe way. Meanwhile, problems arising from transporting dangerous chemicals have also been looked into. At the moment, Ningbo city is home to 30 or 34% of Ningbo’s businesses on transporting hazardous chemicals, involving 726 vehicles with 20,554 tons of chemicals. Our examination has singled out a handful of hidden dangers, though most businesses operate in a safe manner.
As of August 18th, 35 businesses have been subject to examinations of the enforcement of rules and regulations, the maintenance of equipment, education and training, work safety and management of emergencies. 62 hidden dangers as a result has been found and dealt with.
Jiangbei District has also set in motion a campaign to deal with major safety hazards in the sector.
On August 15th, staff at Yongjiang Street Administration of Work Safety led third-party experts to check how the campaign is doing in 4 gas stations and two businesses of hazardous chemicals. The professionals focus on whether static electricity crossover has been properly done, whether people responsible and work safety managers have been trained, whether electrostatic grounding has been ensured for oil tank trucks, and whether grounding warning devices have been maintained regularly.
In addition, secret visits and examinations are also underway. On August 14th, law enforcement officers found more than 20 buckets of dangerous chemicals illegally kept in a rental house. They detained those buckets and transfer them to a designated site.
On top of that, businesses have also embarked on a self-imposed campaign on work safety. At an oil depot of Sinopec, businesses have focused on registering incoming and outgoing personnel and vehicles. Incoming operators are required to wear work suits or anti-static clothing, follow registration procedures and they are not allowed to bring phones and lighters with them.
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Tuesday, 18 August 2015 12:33
Ningbo Petrochemical Development Zone Commission gives high priority to chemical hazard elimination work by adopting a number of measures to examine 50 companies in possession of dangerous articles in an all-round manner in the wake of warehouse blasts that rocked Tianjin Binhai New Zone. This aims to ensure safety in the zone.
The commission works to strengthen work safety management in key areas of the zone and for port transport units, implement the system of access control for companies, conduct surveillance on work safety and anti-terrorism, make electrical power, water, hospital and fire fighting resources stand by for possible emergencies, and organize drills for neighboring residents to teach them how to respond to emergencies promptly and effectively.
Since August 13th, the commission has conducted a number of activities to align with the campaign. It has launched a safety education campaign, a self-imposed examination for safety hazards, a visit by professionals to petrochemical enterprises, a demonstration campaign on work safety, a third party inspection on work safety, and an investigation into illegal practices.
Meanwhile, Ningbo Petrochemical Zone Development Commission also called in related departments to take part in the analysis of why the blasts hit Tianjin Ruihai Company, and what countermeasures could have been taken. In addition, the commission also led an on the spot examination into key areas that house hazardous chemicals in Zhenhai Port and oversaw the self-imposed examination made by companies. At the moment, more than 50 companies have already engaged in the effort.
