China News Service, February 4th: The State Council Information Office held a regular briefing on the policies of the State Council on the 4th to introduce the "Coal Mine Safety Production Regulations" (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations"). Xue Jianguang, director of the Judiciary, Regulations, Science and Technology Department of the State Administration of Mine Safety, said at the meeting that in response to the situation of "repeated fines and repeated offenders" in some coal mines, the "Regulations" have further increased the cost of illegal violations for enterprises by raising the lower limit of fines and setting up new higher limits. Heavy penalties, strict production suspension and rectification requirements, and increased closures.
Xue Jianguang, director of the Judiciary, Regulations, Science and Technology Department of the State Administration of Mine Safety, said that the old "Coal Mine Safety Supervision Regulations" and the State Council's "Special Provisions" imposed penalties for illegal activities by coal mining companies that were obviously too light. Under the current high coal prices, it is possible that many coal mining companies would rather pay fines than produce illegally. In this regard, the "Regulations" make the following provisions to further increase the cost of illegal activities for enterprises.
The first is to raise the lower limit on the amount of fines. On the basis of maintaining the connection with the "Safety Production Law" and other laws, the "Regulations" raise the lower limit of penalties for illegal acts of coal mining enterprises and enterprise leaders. For example, according to the "Work Safety Law", the lower limits of fines for companies that have general accidents, major accidents, and major accidents are 300,000 yuan, 1 million yuan, and 2 million yuan respectively. The "Regulations" increased the amounts to 500,000 yuan, 1.5 million yuan and 5 million yuan respectively.
The second is to establish new heavier penalties. These serious threats include failure to staff mine managers and other personnel and institutions as required, failure to prepare major production systems and safety facilities in compliance with regulatory standards, failure to prepare special designs as required, failure to conduct disaster level appraisals as required, illegal command or forced risky operations, etc. The "Regulations" stipulate relatively severe penalties for violations of production operation safety.
The third is to strictly enforce production suspension and rectification requirements. The "Regulations" stipulate that if production is still ongoing if there are major hidden dangers, production shall be suspended for rectification; if there are safety violations that have not been corrected within the time limit, production shall be suspended for rectification; if there are safety violations and safety cannot be guaranteed before or during the elimination of major hidden dangers, the production shall be suspended for rectification. Withdraw workers and temporarily stop production. At the same time, it is required that coal mines that suspend production for rectification should formulate rectification plans, and regulatory authorities should announce to the public the list of coal mines that suspend production for rectification within 5 working days, and organize resumption of production acceptance in accordance with regulations.
The fourth is to intensify closure efforts. For coal mines that do not have production safety licenses, do not have production safety licenses, are still producing after two or more major accidents are discovered within 3 months, have existing technical conditions that make it difficult to effectively prevent major disasters, etc., the "Regulations" Include it as a legal closure.