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Saw a news on the Internet. You can try: People's Daily Online, Beijing, June 18. According to the website of the State Administration of Work Safety, from June 9 to 12, as one of the first three secret investigation teams sent by the State Administration of Work Safety, the chemical secret investigation team led by Wang Haoshui, director of the Third Supervision Department of the State Administration of Work Safety, made a surprise inspection of 1 1 involving chlorine, ammonia and poor safety production conditions.

The full text of the website of the State Administration of Work Safety forwarded the follow-up interview article of the reporter of China Safety Production News. The full text is as follows:

Crossing three provinces and four places, running thousands of kilometers, boarding the top of dimethyl ether storage tank with a height of tens of meters, entering the pungent chlorine filling site, seeing dangerous production scenes and finding shocking hidden dangers everywhere. ...

From June 9th to12nd, during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, as one of the first three secret investigation teams sent by the State Administration of Work Safety, the chemical secret investigation team led by Wang Haoshui, Director of the Third Supervision Department of the State Administration of Work Safety, raided 1 1 hazardous chemical enterprises involving chlorine and ammonia, poor safety production conditions and many hidden dangers, and found 65 hidden dangers.

The reporter tracked and interviewed the secret investigation team, witnessed the most real production scene of hazardous chemicals enterprises, and recorded the working status of the members of the secret investigation team who gave up their vacations and stuck to the front line.

Urgent notice, the trip is completely confidential.

Ban Hongsheng, director of safety technology department of Hebei Cangzhou Dahua Co., Ltd., and Xi Xue Qiang, safety director of Hebei Shenghua Chemical Co., Ltd. were all notified temporarily. They don't know where to check, and even the staff of the State Administration of Work Safety are not sure which enterprise to check.

At 8: 30 on June 9, Ban Hongsheng appeared at the appointed meeting place on time. Director of the Safety Technology Department of Cangzhou Dahua Co., Ltd., Hebei Province, is one of the experts invited by the Chemical Secret Investigation Team of the General Administration. "I received a notice last night (June 8), bought the last bus ticket in a hurry, and rushed over overnight." He only slept for more than three hours at night and his eyes were red.

Not only Ban Hongsheng, but also other members of the undercover investigation team were suddenly notified without preparation. Afraid of missing the assembly time, another invited expert, Xi Xue Qiang, safety director of Hebei Shenghua Chemical Co., Ltd., drove back to Beijing from Zhangjiakou at 5 o'clock on the 9th.

"Where are we going and which companies are we checking?" Everyone asked each other as soon as they met, but no one could give a clear answer. The itinerary is completely confidential.

After all the staff arrived, Wang Haoshui, the leader of the secret investigation team, held a short meeting. However, the questions in everyone's mind have not been answered, and where to go is still a question mark. However, Wang Haoshui has repeatedly emphasized the discipline of inspection, so that everyone can realize that the inspection is unusual. "According to the requirements of the party group of the General Administration, this inspection did not send a notice, did not say hello, did not listen to the report, and went straight to the scene. The purpose is to find hidden dangers and problems. So, whether you are familiar with the company you are going to, please don't tell this news. This is discipline. " Wang Haoshui said seriously.

At 9 o'clock sharp, the dark investigation team drove away.

"Go to Hengshui first." When getting on the bus, Wang Haoshui just told the driver the general direction. Sun Guangyu, a member of the secret investigation team and vice minister of the third Ministry of Supervision, took out the prepared tablet computer, found the route and worked on the spot.

Along the way, except for discussing the route to Hengshui occasionally, everyone was silent, except for the crack of rain hitting the window. The real destination is not known yet.

In the next few days, less than the last minute, the accompanying experts and reporters did not know where to check.

Sun Guangyu has a list of companies prepared in advance, but this is not the final check list. Wherever he went, Wang Haoshui randomly selected enterprises from the list, then searched the specific location of enterprises through navigation equipment and drove straight to the production site. Later, they didn't even use the list. Wherever they drive, they know where they are. When they see enterprises with outdated equipment and small scale, they immediately stop to check.

On-site management, too many places are worrying.

In four days, the undercover investigation team traveled nearly 1500 km, raided 1 1 enterprise and found a lot of problems. Almost every enterprise has the phenomenon of on-site management confusion. According to the experts of the secret investigation team, many loopholes are fatal.

In four days, I went to Hengshui, Liaocheng, Puyang and Zhaoxian (located in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province). The secret investigation team traveled nearly 1500 km, and raided 1 1 enterprise. The sudden visit of the unannounced interview team caught many enterprises off guard, and it was too late to "wash the white" problems and hidden dangers on the spot.

Hebei Jiheng Chemical Co., Ltd., located in Jiheng Road, Hengshui City, is the first stop of the surprise inspection by the dark investigation team. Around 9 15, the undercover investigation team quickly found the production site of the enterprise through GPS navigation.

To everyone's surprise, this company, which claimed to be "the only legal supplier in the American market in the field of chlorine-containing disinfectants" on its website, was easily found out that the liquid chlorine storage tank was adjacent to the liquid chlorine filling place, and the flammable gas was not analyzed during hot work, so the hot work site was isolated from the fire supervisors. What's even more frightening is that in this so-called "high-tech enterprise", three meters of the five meters of combustible gas alarm system used at the scene were misreported due to faults. No one, whether it's the safety manager, the person in charge of the workshop or the process technicians, can find or tell the meaning of the readings in the table. The combustible gas alarm system, which is in charge of the lifeline of enterprise safety, has therefore become the ear of the deaf.

Jiheng chemistry is not a case. In the subsequent spot check, the unannounced interview team found that the phenomenon of on-site management confusion existed in almost every enterprise.

Yu Long Chemical Co., Ltd., located in Huanghe West Road, Hualong District, Puyang City, mainly produces methanol, which is a second-class safety production standardization enterprise. In layman's view, the subordinate enterprises of Henan Yongmei Group have a bright appearance, and the scale of storage tanks and the advanced level of devices are beyond the reach of surrounding small and medium-sized enterprises. However, in the opinion of the experts of the secret investigation team, its on-site management loopholes are fatal.

Just entering the site of dimethyl ether storage tank, Wang Haoshui saw at a glance that there was something wrong with the safety valve of the storage tank: "Why didn't the safety valve discharge into the torch? Why did it directly vent into the atmosphere?" "We have a pressure switch specially connected to the torch and an emergency exhaust device." The person in charge of the safety and environmental protection department is very confident and has repeatedly emphasized the advanced nature of its equipment. "That can't replace the safety valve! What we have to consider now is, what if the emergency exhaust device fails? " Wang Haoshui sternly refuted.

It turned out that the Bhopal accident in India occurred in 1984. Because the emergency venting device could not be opened, the toxic gas spread rapidly, causing serious consequences of more than 3,500 deaths. When reflecting on the accident, people found that "United Carbide Company of the United States was too conceited in treating highly toxic gases and never really worried about causing a series of problems". "Learn from the Bhopal accident!" Wang Haoshui said this sentence several times in a row.

Puyang Fuli Chemical Co., Ltd., which is not far from Yu Long Chemical, is also surprising. There is no factory name and no doorman. A boss-like person calls himself a driver and a farmer-like person calls himself a security officer. There was a pungent smell of chlorine at the scene. Chlorine storage tanks, whether empty or real, are piled up at will. The distance between the storage tank area and the production area is less than 5m. The only computer used to monitor the concentration of liquid chlorine is covered with dust, and the thick dust on the computer keyboard makes it impossible to tell the traces of being used. Everything in front of us makes it difficult to connect it with the pictures published on the company's website and the corporate advertisements certified by ISO900 1 international system.

In Liaocheng Shenxian Guyun Economic and Technological Development Zone, Shenxian Hu Axiang Salt Chemical Co., Ltd. can be described as the "freest" enterprise in this inspection. The doorman turned a blind eye to the arrival of the secret investigation team, and the personnel of the secret investigation team entered the production site unimpeded without showing their certificates.

The freedom of entry and exit reflects the confusion of management, and the subsequent scenes also confirm this point: in the central control room, rainwater leaking from the roof keeps dripping on the computer used for security monitoring, and the monitoring personnel turn a blind eye to the danger that may lead to computer short circuit at any time; At the production site, the safety valve is seriously corroded and there are traces of leakage everywhere. There are almost no intact flanges of valves and upper bolts on site, and the time marked on the inspection board is earlier than the actual time 1 many hours. In the tank farm, the outer protective layer of liquid chlorine storage tank has fallen off in a large area, and the liquid level gauge outside the tank has already become a pile of scrap iron, and there is no remote instrument to record pressure and temperature on site; In the production operation room, four of the five emergency gas masks have been scrapped. ...

"It's terrible, this enterprise doesn't know how to survive?" Facing the scene before us, two experts, Xi Xue Qiang and Ban Hongsheng, felt incredible.

Low-level mistakes have become "common problems" in some enterprises.

"No company is reassuring." Along the way, this has almost become the mantra of the dark investigation team. Although "we must see the real situation and find out the problems" is the set goal before everyone leaves, the problems found on the spot are still much more serious than expected.

During the inspection of 1 1 enterprise, the unannounced interview team found 65 hidden dangers, most of which were common problems and even some intolerable low-level mistakes.

10 in the morning, located in the storage tank area of orcutt Chemical Industry Group Company in Guandao North Street, Gaotang County, Shandong Province, a hole about 50 cm high and wide was opened at the bottom of the cofferdam nearly 2 meters high, and a hose extended from the hole. "What is the cofferdam for?" Asked the dark investigation team. The vice president in charge of safety plausibly said, "Prevent material leakage in the storage tank." "What's that hole down there?" "Drainage." "In this case, how to prevent the material from leaking from the perforated cofferdam?" The questioning of the undercover investigation team made the vice president speechless for a while.

It is ironic that enterprises spend money to repair cofferdams and self-destruct cofferdams. Unexpectedly, on the morning of 1 1, a cofferdam with a hole at the bottom appeared on the storage tank site of Puyang Hongye Biochemical Co., Ltd.

On the ground inside the cofferdam, Hongye Biochemical specially dug a trapezoidal canal, and the end of the canal is at the hole at the bottom of the cofferdam. In this enterprise producing furfuryl alcohol from furfural hydrogenation, flammable and explosive products are stored in storage tanks. "You only consider the convenience of drainage, but have you ever thought that once the tank catches fire and explodes, the materials with fire will flow out of the hole in large quantities, resulting in uncontrollable fire?" Wang Haoshui was very angry with the company's practice. "Hurry up and rectify, I am anxious for you!"

However, in addition to the cofferdam not being closed, the secret investigation team also found some low-level mistakes that were inconsistent with its identity in this self-proclaimed world's largest furfuryl alcohol and furfural production base. At the enterprise site being rebuilt, there is a furfural hydrogenation unit under construction on one side; On the other hand, a five-story building has completed the main project, and the distance between them is less than 30 meters. What no one expected was that the enterprise would use this building as a dormitory for employees to work shifts. "Absolutely not! Once the device explodes, the employees in the building will become living targets. " Wang Haoshui pointed out the problem rudely. "Either the equipment stops or the building is rebuilt, and only one of them can be left."

Other enterprises also have low-level mistakes. In Shenxian Hu Axiang Petrochemical Co., Ltd., the workshop director and deputy director have exactly the same responsibility system for production safety. The general manager, who is a graduate student majoring in chemical engineering, is very calm in the face of questions: "I don't know, I don't know anything about safety." In Hebei Jiheng Lantian (Sairui) Chemical Co., Ltd., many safety training papers are similar in handwriting, and some papers are deducted and some get full marks for the same questions and answers. In Puyang Maiqi Technology Co., Ltd., flammable methylamine and flammable butanediol are placed in the same tank farm, close to the factory gate and urban roads, while oxygen cylinders and acetylene cylinders that should be outside 10 meters during hot work are close together. In Hu Axiang Salt Chemical Company, the system of "No Hoisting for Hoisting Operation 10" hanging on the wall impressively says "No Hoisting when the ladle is full", but it is impossible for this enterprise to have a ladle.

"The biggest hidden danger is turning a blind eye to hidden dangers, being in danger but not knowing where the danger is." The scenes in the inspection made experts such as Xi Xueqiang deeply worried.

In view of the seriousness of the problem, the secret investigation team issued instructions to orcutt Chemical, Hu Axiang Salt Chemical, R&F Chemical and Hongye Biochemical on the spot to suspend production for rectification and delay construction, requiring local governments and safety supervision departments to follow up.

Take great pains, just for the tragedy not to repeat itself.

Along the way, the location of the inspection was temporarily decided, and the tablet computer, mobile phone and car GPS became the "compass" of the dark investigation group. Sometimes, in order to find the specific location of the enterprise, the secret investigation team will turn on all the navigation equipment and give directions to the driver together.

The days when the chemical secret investigation team conducted the inspection coincided with the Dragon Boat Festival holiday. Although they can't enjoy their holidays like most people, although they travel thousands of kilometers nonstop, although they almost never eat on time, although they go out early in the morning and are still checking at night, no one complains that they are tired. As long as we arrived at the scene, everyone climbed up and down in various dangerous chemical devices like clockwork.

Two days before the inspection, it rained cats and dogs and the temperature plummeted. Everyone has a foot of water and mud, and their clothes are wet and dry. In the next two days, after the rain cleared, the sun was shining, and no one had time to drink water to wipe the sweat. The clothes are still wet and dry.

10, 2 1, the undercover team members who just arrived in Puyang gathered again and drove overnight. At night, Puyang City was so quiet that almost no pedestrians could be seen, only the moonlight accompanied the members of the dark investigation team. But to everyone's delight, Zhongyuan Dahua Company, a randomly selected coal chemical company in Henan Province, performed well in night duty, device inspection, automatic monitoring and on-site management. "I have been worried about the constant accidents in this company in the past few years, but this night check has changed my view of them." At 2300 hours, the dark investigation team returned to the station. Although exhausted, Wang Haoshui was very satisfied with the performance of Dahua in the Central Plains.

Along the way, the location of the inspection was temporarily decided, and the tablet computer, mobile phone and car GPS became the "compass" of the dark investigation group. Sometimes, in order to find the specific location of the enterprise, the secret investigation team will turn on all the navigation equipment and give directions to the driver together. However, in remote areas, the collective failure of advanced equipment also made the covert investigation team lose its way.

1 1, 18, the secret investigation team rushed to Zhao County, Hebei Province. On February 28th last year, an explosion occurred in the guanidine nitrate workshop of Zhao County Keer Chemical Co., Ltd., killing 29 people and injuring 46 others. Kerr Chemical was immediately shut down according to law. Wang Haoshui, Sun Guangyu and Ban Hongsheng all participated in the accident investigation, but they were "a little uneasy" about whether the company was closed in place and whether it would secretly produce.

After entering Zhao County, the car accidentally drove into a narrow village road. For a time, all the navigation devices could not find the location of the vehicle. The muddy village road is full of potholes, and obstacles appear from time to time on the road, so the driver has to turn around hard and find a way out again. After more than half an hour of transfer and ups and downs, the car returned to the highway.

While rummaging through the electronic map and searching by memory, the secret investigation team went through many twists and turns before finding the former Kerr Chemical Industry. There is no one else in the factory except the two security guards who guard the door. The severely damaged factory buildings are dilapidated, and waste equipment is piled up in the open space. The scene after the accident remains the same.

Before the accident, this enterprise, which mainly produces pesticides and pharmaceutical intermediates, had an annual profit of over 100 million yuan and was a key project in Hebei Province. It is precisely because of the amazing profits that the secret investigation team is worried that the company will stop. "This is an accident supervised by the the State Council Security Committee. We are not at ease until we see it on the spot. " People who have participated in the accident investigation said.

In addition to Kerr Chemical, the secret investigation team also tried its best to find another company that had an accident. 65438+ This year 10 On June 4th, an explosion occurred in the workshop of choline chloride aqueous solution in Orcote Chemical. Although no one died, many workers were injured and the surrounding houses were damaged. On-site inspection found that the accident choline chloride device had stopped production, but the secret investigation team did not dare to take it lightly and checked it very carefully. "I specially checked the accident pictures of this company online last night and compared them with the scenes we saw in case they were hiding something." Wang Haoshui called choline chloride experts and asked about the related production technology.

On the way back to Beijing, the members of the secret investigation team still didn't get out of the tense working state and kept discussing the problems found in the inspection. "In the next step, we will supervise the hidden dangers found, urge local governments to follow up and rectify, ensure that hidden dangers are completely eliminated, and will never tolerate any hidden dangers." This conversation between Wang Haoshui and Sun Guangyu was quietly recorded by the reporter.

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