The Ministry of Emergency Management recently reviewed and approved the "Safety Regulations on Limited Space Operations of Industry and Trade Enterprises", which will be officially implemented on January 1 next year. The "Provisions" require that confined space operations must be equipped with guardians, and highlight the approval of operations, on-site safety management and disposal, and the supervision and management of key objects. A series of measures have been intensively introduced, the purpose of which is to tighten the safety valve of the limited space operation of industrial and trade enterprises.
Fermentation tanks, pickling tanks, pulp ponds, sewage treatment tanks, etc., these are typical limited spaces in industrial and trade enterprises. Because the staff usually only carry out temporary operations such as maintenance and maintenance, cleaning and dredging, the design of the limited space generally does not consider the requirements of lighting, lighting, ventilation, etc., which is easy to cause the accumulation of toxic and harmful, flammable and explosive substances or insufficient oxygen content, these risk factors may lead to personnel poisoning or suffocation, and even cause **.
In recent years, accidents in limited space operations of industrial and trade enterprises have occurred from time to time. The data shows that in the past 10 years, due to the failure to implement safety protection measures, the number of accidents and fatalities related to blind rescue accounted for 87% of the total number of accidents4% and 868%。Some employees of industrial and trade enterprises have insufficient safety literacy, and they "don't know how to prevent the risk of poisoning and suffocation accidents", some do not implement the operation approval system, do not carry out operations in accordance with operating procedures, some are equipped with protective equipment but the operators will not wear them, and some emergency drills take the form and do not know how to deal with emergencies. Rescue without personal protection can easily cause more due to "ignorance and fearlessness".
Strengthening precise and strict law enforcement is an important part of curbing the occurrence of accidents in confined space operations. In order to further standardize the limited space operation of industrial and trade enterprises, emergency management departments at all levels have carried out in-depth special investigation and rectification actions for major accidents and hidden dangers in the industry and trade industry. Since the launch of the 2023 special action, law enforcement across the country has investigated and dealt with major hidden dangers of industrial and trade enterprises6190,000 articles, 9,154 administrative penalties, 2,084 "double penalties in one case", 2,653 suspension of production and rectification, and 210 closure of bans, vigorously promoting the industry and trade industry to further strengthen safety management.
However, it should be noted that the industrial and trade enterprises involve a wide range of areas, a large number, a weak foundation for safety management, uneven safety quality of employees, and a relatively extensive production and operation management model. The implementation of safety production supervision in the industry and trade industry requires all parties to work together, maintain a high degree of vigilance, closely supervise the safety management measures and actual operation of the enterprise, and effectively incorporate the safety production work into the daily operation and management of the enterprise, so as to eliminate all kinds of hidden dangers of accidents in a timely manner.
Safe production has a bearing on the overall situation of economic development and social stability. All localities and departments should take the "Regulations" as the main basis for enterprises to strengthen the safety management of limited space operations and departments to carry out supervision and inspection, continue to provide assistance and guidance to key areas, and constantly strengthen the sense of responsibility of enterprises, so as to know everything they should know and know, and improve their self-prevention capabilitiesIt is necessary to focus on key links such as the guardian responsibility system and operation approval, the use of protective equipment and the allocation of emergency rescue equipment, effectively improve the quality of rectification of the investigation of risks and hidden dangers in limited space operations, and be merciless to enterprises with major hidden dangers and illegal acts, and strictly implement penalties in accordance with the law. (This article**: Economy** Author: Guo Jingyuan).