Implementing safety production must start from "health care"
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2011-05-26 16:25
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China Laundry Journal
――Interview with Shu Qi, Executive Deputy Director of the Professional Committee of Laundry and Dyeing, China General Chamber of Commerce
The story of Bian Que……
It is said that Bian Que had three brothers, all doctors. The eldest was the best in medical skills, the second was moderate, and Bian Que was the third. However, Bian Que is the most famous among the public. Why? It turns out the eldest was a preventive doctor who controlled diseases before symptoms appeared, practicing medicine invisibly; the second was a treatment doctor who treated diseases at their onset, practicing medicine visibly; the third, Bian Que, was an emergency doctor skilled at saving people in critical moments, hence the greatest fame.
From the perspective of control management theory, whether treating diseases or preventing production accidents, after-the-fact is worse than during-the-fact, and during-the-fact is worse than before-the-fact; implementing safe production must start with "prevention." This article is compiled based on the recent inspections by Comrade Shu Qi, Executive Deputy Director of the Professional Committee of Laundry and Dyeing of the China General Chamber of Commerce, on the safety production status of some laundry and dyeing enterprises in various provinces and regions, hoping to draw attention from all laundry and dyeing enterprises and association organizations.
A painful lesson The deep pain of both labor and management sides
According to the recent safety production research conducted by our association in enterprises, with the rapid development of the laundry and dyeing industry and the significant increase in equipment capacity, safety hazards have emerged to varying degrees in various enterprises. These problems stem from defects in safety protection devices of the equipment itself, improper operation against safety procedures; from enterprise leaders focusing on production while neglecting safety management; from production personnel lacking safety education and self-protection awareness; from merely posting a few slogans without proper rules; and from regulations being ignored or rendered ineffective, among others.
In 2009 alone, several major safety production accidents occurred consecutively in the Beijing area. A certain laundry factory experienced an explosion of a pressure vessel in a pressing machine due to substandard quality and excessive operating pressure, causing the factory roof to be blown off, the cylindrical vessel flattened, damage to personnel, equipment, and buildings, and serious production disruption; another factory used petroleum solvents for dry cleaning and caused an explosion by using open flames against operating procedures, resulting in personal injuries; some enterprises frequently had pressing machine crushing incidents, causing hand injuries in mild cases and arm amputation in severe cases.
Also in 2009, a laundry factory in Shanghai assigned non-technical personnel to monitor the distillation process of perchloroethylene, resulting in improper operation and sleeping on duty, causing an overpressure incident and one death due to perchloroethylene leakage. Similarly, in Shandong, Inner Mongolia, and other places, there were multiple serious accidents causing personnel injuries and equipment damage due to pressing machine crushing or severe deformation and explosion of pressure vessels.
No one wishes for accidents to happen, but once they occur, no one can avoid them. Personal injury and disability bring lifelong inconvenience and pain to victims; rescue, compensation, aftermath, and even triggering group incidents cause great distress to the involved enterprises and owners; intervention and rectification by civil affairs, fire, and management departments afterward become nightmares for the enterprises and owners involved.
The painful lessons bring deep pain to both labor and management sides. "I really regret it now!" This has almost become the "common voice" of all parties involved afterward. Such pain must lead to reflection and, more importantly, action.
Painful Reflection Safety Production Must Be Strictly Implemented
Regarding such incidents, the Laundry and Dyeing Committee believes: safety production is weightier than Mount Tai. Without safety production, there is no production safety. Once an accident occurs, employees are injured, families grieve, enterprises lose money, and the industry’s reputation is damaged. The randomness of safety accidents exists within their inevitability; no accident occurs in isolation. Safety accidents should not be treated in isolation; even if some incidents are properly resolved, they cannot cover up the hidden safety hazards in the entire laundry and dyeing industry. We are engaged in the laundry and dyeing industry, which has developed alongside human civilization. Therefore, we can say we are engaged in a civilized and beautiful cause. Advocating civilization, promoting goodness, civilized production, safe production, caring for employees, and cherishing life should be our laundry and dyeing people’s duty in developing production and giving back to society.
Regarding safety production issues, our association issued a document titled "Safety Production Is Weightier Than Mount Tai" as early as August 2007. Concerning recent safety production accidents nationwide and the various safety hazards exposed by these accidents, the Laundry and Dyeing Committee expresses strong concern again and urges all laundry and related enterprises and organizations to attach great importance, learn lessons, and resolutely prevent similar accidents from recurring.
At the beginning of the new year, the Laundry and Dyeing Committee issued a call to all member units, local laundry and dyeing industry associations (chambers of commerce), and all laundry and related production enterprises to carry out "safety production" self-inspection activities, focusing on the following key areas for strict implementation.
First, local laundry and related industry associations (chambers of commerce) should coordinate with related industry enterprises to promote, initiate, inspect, and implement safety self-inspection activities;
Second, the China General Chamber of Commerce Professional Committee of Laundry and Dyeing and member enterprises of local associations, especially director member enterprises and executive director member enterprises, should take the lead in self-inspection and set an example;
Third, enterprise leaders should take the lead in studying national and industry laws, regulations, systems, and requirements related to safety production, truly establishing, correcting, and strengthening safety production awareness;
Fourth, through various forms such as study sessions, lectures, discussions, and classic case reviews, conduct a widespread employee safety production training and education activity within enterprises;
Fifth, within enterprises, clean up and revise existing safety production rules, regulations, and operating procedures, solidifying the results of safety education through quizzes, operations, and simulation drills;
Sixth, when purchasing new equipment, first select the right personnel; procurement staff must be proficient and responsible; second, select the right equipment; equipment must meet standards and be of qualified quality;
Seventh, conduct a comprehensive and detailed safety inspection of existing production equipment in enterprises, focusing on the installation, addition, and modification of equipment safety protection devices, leaving no safety blind spots;
Eight is to establish an inspection team composed of personnel with strong professional technical skills and a serious sense of responsibility, focusing on inspecting and clearing safety hazards in the electrical and steam lines of the production workshop;
Nine is that after the self-inspection activity ends, the results of the self-inspection should be institutionalized, assigned to a dedicated person, forming a long-term management model and mechanism for enterprise safety production, ensuring the alarm bell always rings.
After the self-inspection activity ends, it is hoped that enterprises in various industries will report the results and experiences of the safety production self-inspection to our association, so as to promote publicity and exchange throughout the entire industry.
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