China News Service, August 6, According to the official WeChat news of the Hubei Emergency Management Department, on August 4, the Hubei Provincial Security Office issued the "Notice on the Flash Explosion Accident of Xiantao Lanhua Silicone Co., Ltd.". The notification pointed out that according to preliminary analysis, the direct cause of the accident was that the operator did not fully identify the risks when cleaning up the liquid accumulation in the stratified tower and did not strictly follow the parking safety regulations.
At around 17:30 on August 3, 2020, a flash explosion occurred in the methyl tributyl ketoxime silane workshop of Lanhua Organosilicon Co., Ltd., Xiliuhe Town, Xiantao City, causing 6 deaths and 4 injuries. After the accident, the Department of Emergency Management and the leaders of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee and Government issued instructions requesting full rescue and treatment, quickly identifying the cause of the accident, resolutely deal with the accident in accordance with the law, and learn from the accident, seriously investigate and deal with the problem of non-implementation of rectification work, and strictly prevent serious accidents. In order to thoroughly investigate the cause of the accident, earnestly learn from the accident, and seriously pursue the responsibility of the accident, the Provincial Safety Committee will raise the level of investigation for this accident.
According to preliminary analysis, the direct cause of the accident was that the operator did not fully identify the risks when cleaning up the liquid accumulation in the stratified tower and did not strictly follow the parking safety regulations. The accident showed that chaotic corporate safety management was the main cause of the accident, which was concentrated on the failure to implement the safety management system, the proliferation of formalism and corporate bureaucracy, and the lessons were extremely profound.
The Hubei Emergency Management Department emphasized that the current high temperature and extreme heat, heavy rain, thunder and lightning, and other extreme weather are very likely to cause production safety accidents in the hazardous chemical industry. Affected by the dual impact of the new crown epidemic and the flood situation, most chemical companies have arranged to carry out inspections and maintenance in August, with frequent shutdowns, special operations, and frequent unconventional operations, and safety risks are concentrated. In order to further improve the current safety production of hazardous chemicals, the special requirements are as follows:
Strict management of special operations. Some enterprises have adopted formalities and made changes in the management of special operations, and even experienced "three violations". This situation must be changed immediately. Enterprises in all regions must strictly implement the requirements of the "Special Operation Safety Regulations for Chemical Production Units", focusing on strengthening the control of special operations such as hot fire, ground breaking, entry into confined spaces, hoisting, temporary electricity use, etc., and video of the entire process of special operations Video recordings, video recordings are kept by the enterprise for three months for future reference, and uploaded to the information platform after the provincial information platform is improved. The supervisory department must check every video recording, correct any violations, and check the responsibility.
Strengthen risk management and control of unconventional operations. Unconventional operations are infrequent operations (including special operations, equipment startup and shutdown, etc.) that do not even have safe operating procedures compared to conventional operations. This type of operation has the characteristics of low frequency and unclear risks, which can easily lead to accidents. Each enterprise shall implement list management of unconventional operations. Under the leadership of the safety management organization of the enterprise, all employees shall be mobilized to sort out the unconventional operations of the enterprise, and form a list of unconventional operations of the enterprise, and conduct risk identification for each unconventional operation. Formulate and improve safety operating procedures and emergency response measures, and summarize and file.
Before implementing unconventional operations, you must carefully study the content of risk identification, predict various risks, and understand risk scenarios;
During the implementation of the operation, the safety operation procedures must be strictly implemented, and emergency measures shall be taken when abnormal situations are found;
After the homework is completed, it is necessary to analyze and summarize the work process, analyze and summarize the results in turn to complete the list.
Resolutely do the work that is not on the list, you must first prepare the list and then work, and prevent the implementation of various unconventional operations that are not on the list. All localities and departments must quickly deploy this work, guide enterprises to promote the unconventional safety work list management method, and make use of the initiative of the enterprise and the participation of employees during the implementation process. It is strictly forbidden to simply entrust technical service agencies to prepare lists for inspections. Once found to deal with it seriously, resolutely eliminate the cancer of safety management of "playing the form and going through the scene".
Strengthen safety management in special periods. All localities and departments should further strengthen leadership, carry out in-depth and solid implementation of special safety rectification, and make system implementation the focus of enterprise safety management and safety supervision and law enforcement, and persevere in implementation.
Enterprises should strengthen fire protection, waterproof and moisture proof, explosion protection, lightning protection, anti-static, anti-poisoning and other measures, strengthen the safety management of water reaction and high temperature easily decomposable chemicals, and implement regular inspection and maintenance systems for facilities and equipment.
We will comprehensively strengthen the improvement of the "Four Knowledge" abilities of employees at their positions, strictly enforce labor disciplines, prohibit interworking, and severely investigate and crack down on "three violations".
Analyze and grasp the regular characteristics of various production devices and the physiological and psychological characteristics of employees during the high temperature period, and take effective measures to prevent accidents.
The Hubei Provincial Work Safety Office has established two accident warning education and publicity supervision teams to go to areas with higher risk for hazardous chemical companies to carry out accident warning education and supervision, bring painful accident lessons into the enterprise, and urge the company to strictly implement various safety production systems.