Hard measures for safe production in mines, where hard (theme)
In recent years, affected by international and domestic shocks, the demand for energy and mineral resources has increased, markets are hot, prices are high, coal mines have been producing at high intensity for long periods of time, facilities and equipment have been overstretched, together with the weak security base of our mines, the confluence of disasters and the increasing number of hazards at risk and the continued difficulty of controlling them。
Since 2023, there have been a number of major production safety incidents in the mine sector, particularly in the last two months, which have been followed by major production safety incidents, which have been extremely serious and complex。
In recent days, the state council's committee on safety at work has issued hard measures (hereinafter referred to as " hard measures " ) for the prevention of heavy and heavy production safety accidents in the mine field. On 1 february, a press conference was organized by the new state, during which the relevant officials, including deputy director-general of the national mineral security inspectorate, zhang satting, gave a briefing on the " hard measures " and responded to questions from journalists。
Focus on the contradictions
The hard measures focus on current inconsistencies and problems in safe production in the field of mines, as well as new situations and risks, and put in place a range of practical and hard tactics。
Zhang riing stated that the hard measures were issue-oriented, focused on the lack of implementation of security responsibilities arising from the most serious accidents in recent years, the poor quality of screening and treatment of hazards, and the lack of safety and nutrition of practitioners. Emphasis has been placed both on critical management and on making clear deployments in areas such as “non-treatment”, scientific and technological empowerment, accident detection and so forth, and on strengthening the grass-roots base, with specific requirements in areas such as dynamic disaster risk surveys, disaster management, risk management, hazard screening, site management, safety training, emergency preparedness and so forth, with a view to contributing to the root causes of accidents and their root causes. In addition, consistent accountability for negligence, highlighting the word “responsibility”, further clarifying the security responsibilities of the physical control, sector regulators and territorial governments of the enterprise, strengthening accountability and accountability, working through a chain of accountability, putting in place measures to promote the security regime and establishing safe and secure production lines across the board。
With regard to the one-size-fits-all responsibility for the safe production of mines at all levels, zhang rieng explained that it was crucial to focus on the actual control over the person in charge of the implementation of the corporate responsibility. In cases where the responsibility for safety management is not fulfilled, there is insufficient investment in safe production, risk organization operations, etc., causing accidents or false reporting of accidents, the penalties are dealt with in a strict manner in accordance with the law。
Seized disaster factor surveys and major disaster management
“the mapping of hidden disaster factors and the management of major disasters are basic works for risk mitigation and mine accident mitigation. They are recurrent and routine and must be sustained, dynamic and accurate in managing major disasters in a timely and effective manner.” wang tiegan, ombudsman, security base division, national mineral safety inspectorate。
The hard measures proposed the strengthening of pre-emptive governance for major disasters. Wang tiengen stated that the national mineral safety inspectorate would aim to move the model of safe governance of mines towards a pre-emptive transition to a “full, deep, genuine and accurate” mapping of the underlying causes of disasters and to a major disaster management effort. It would work towards a shift from reactive preparedness to active governance, from single to integrated governance, from sub-well local governance to ground-based regional governance。
The census of secrecy catastrophes of mines is a fundamental, forward-looking and preventive effort for the safe production of mines and a fundamental step towards accelerating the transition from a safe governance model to a proactive one. The hard measures emphasize that mining enterprises must identify hidden hazard factors and take effective measures before extractive operations can take place。
Between 2021 and 2023, we conducted a survey of the hidden hazards of mines. Through the census, a large number of mine-mining areas, geological formations and other hidden hazards were identified and addressed. To date, 54,000 areas have been identified, 2004 in the vasto region, 31,000 faults, 8631 in the pillar and 3,298 in the water threat. At the same time, issues such as the lack of attention paid to the census of hidden causes of disasters, the poor quality of the census, inadequate governance measures, inadequate monitoring and inspection, and the lack of standards and norms remain prominent。
Wang tegen indicated that, as a next step, the national monitoring and monitoring directorate of mines would continue to vigorously promote the census of hidden disaster-induced factors in mines, including by deepening the census of hidden disaster-induced factors, enhancing surveillance and inspection and conducting special inspections. The mining enterprises will be urged to conduct a comprehensive survey of the distribution of water bodies, geological formations, old air areas, gas-rich areas, impact areas and rock blast hazard areas, and to verify each other through a combination of engineering measures such as prospecting, chemical exploration, drilling, etc., in order to identify the contributing factors within the three to five-year-old extractive areas。
Continuous and severe fight against all types of illegal production and construction
Illegal production construction is responsible for the most serious accidents in the mines. In 2023, the supervision and monitoring of the safety of mines at all levels, through special screening and treatment of the risks of major accidents in mines, identified 2,269 major hazards in coal mines and over 12,000 in non-coal mines, an increase of 51. 3 per cent and 203 per cent, respectively, in order to eliminate a number of major hazards and severely punish violations。
However, in the light of the exposure of major accidents in mines in recent years, the risk of major accidents remains high and illegal production continues to increase。
The head of the coal safety monitoring department of the national monitoring directorate for mine safety has indicated that this year, serious efforts will be made to combat all types of illegal production and construction, and a serious investigation will be carried out in connection with the deliberate evasion of regulations, such as covert mining operations, the removal of equipment during technical modifications, and the dismantling of equipment that destroys monitoring facilities. Violations of the law, such as cross-border exploitation, are dealt with by the natural resources, public security, electricity, etc。
In response to false reports of accidents from mines, zhao suqi, head of the accident investigation and statistics department of the national mine safety inspectorate, indicated that the national mine safety inspectorate would take technical and integrated measures to construct a long-lasting mechanism of “failure to hide” from mine accidents. Technical measures will be taken to prevent forgery, and mining companies will be required to install video surveillance at wellheads and main operating sites to achieve “non-video surveillance and non-operation”. All well-entering personnel must carry identification cards that accurately capture the dynamic trajectory of underground activity of well-entering personnel, so that the forgery “has no place to hide”。
