Six departments jointly issued a document to focus on high-risk chemical industry segments and launch a campaign to crack down on illegal activities and rectify violations.

According to the Ministry of Emergency Management, the Office of the Work Safety Committee of the State Council, in conjunction with the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Ministry of Justice, has jointly issued a special notice to coordinate and deploy the nationwide campaign to "crack down on illegal activities and rectify violations" in work safety. This special action is closely aligned with key tasks such as the three-year action for tackling root causes in work safety and the investigation and rectification of major accident hazards. The chemical and hazardous chemicals industry has been listed as the primary focus for rectification, with an all-around and strict crackdown on various illegal and illegal production and operation behaviors in the hazardous chemicals sector.

I. Define a Key Rectification List for the Chemical Sector and Focus on High-Risk Illegal Operations

The notice clarifies that all localities and departments must strictly implement the regulatory requirement of "three managements and three musts," unify the crackdown on common safety violations across the industry, set up special strict inspection items for the chemical and hazardous chemicals industries, and focus on high-frequency major hazards in the industry:

· Unlicensed production and operation: Carrying out chemical and hazardous chemical production activities without obtaining work safety permits;

· Over-scope illegal operations: Producing, storing, using, or operating hazardous chemicals beyond the permitted categories and scales;

· Cross-boundary violations by business entities: Enterprises with only hazardous chemical operation qualifications illegally engaging in chemical production;

· Falsification in work safety and forcibly organizing production without basic safety conditions;

· Malicious illegal behaviors such as enterprise management personnel ordering employees to operate in violation of regulations or engage in risky operations.

Compared with other sectors such as mining, fire protection, and industrial trade, the chemical industry is characterized by the concentration of flammable, explosive, toxic, and harmful media, with prominent risks of chain explosions and large-scale leaks. This action sets stricter investigation standards for violations by hazardous chemical enterprises and compacts the full-chain regulatory oversight of refining, fine chemicals, hazardous chemical storage and logistics, and new material supporting chemical units.

II. Multi-dimensionally Strengthen Regulatory Enforcement in the Chemical Industry

The notice clarifies special regulatory requirements for the chemical industry from five aspects: responsibility transmission, judicial connection, regulatory means, accident accountability, and credit constraints:

1. Compact Frontline Regulatory Responsibilities

Localities refine special control rules for chemical parks and hazardous chemical enterprises, sinking safety responsibilities to key positions such as parks, workshops, tank farms, and hazardous chemical transportation loading and unloading, achieving full-scenario closed-loop management of chemical enterprises.

2. Deepen Administrative-Criminal-Disciplinary Linkage and Strictly Hold Accountable for Chemical Safety Accidents

Simultaneously implement closure and banning, "double penalties for one case," and maximum administrative penalties for illegal and illegal behaviors in the chemical industry; strengthen the clue transfer mechanism among political and legal affairs, public security, justice, and emergency management departments. For chemical enterprises and responsible persons involved in major hazards and casualty accidents, criminal and disciplinary accountability are initiated simultaneously to systematically rectify the chain of illegal interests in the chemical sector.

3. Upgrade the Intelligent Regulatory Model for the Chemical Industry

Increase the intensity of on-site factory驻厂, entry into units, and full-coverage patrols in tank areas of chemical enterprises. Relying on information technology tools such as online monitoring platforms, DCS online monitoring, and hazardous chemical transportation trajectory tracking, build a three-dimensional regulatory system of online early warning + offline on-site verification, promoting the transformation of chemical safety regulation from traditional human defense to digital intelligent defense.

4. Strictly Conduct Chemical Accident Investigation and Disposal

All chemical safety accidents such as leaks, explosions, and fires are subject to escalated investigations and supervised handling, digging deep into source illegal and illegal problems, and thoroughly investigating hidden illegal chains in upstream and downstream raw materials, storage, and transportation links.

5. Joint Punishment for Dishonesty to Constrain Chemical Market Entities

Chemical enterprises, actual controllers, and safety management personnel with illegal and illegal production behaviors are uniformly included in the list of serious dishonest subjects, implementing punitive measures such as industry access restrictions, financing constraints, and bidding restrictions.

III. Broaden Social Supervision Channels and Build a Solid Line of Defense for Co-governance of Chemical Safety

The notice proposes to fully smooth the channels for public reporting, focusing on encouraging employees in chemical parks, hazardous chemical transport drivers, and surrounding masses to report behaviors such as unlicensed chemical production, illegal storage of high-risk chemicals such as ammonium nitrate, and illegal modification of hazardous chemical transport vehicles, and implementing reporting rewards as prescribed.

At the same time, increase the public exposure of typical illegal cases in chemical safety, normalize safety training for hazardous chemical enterprises and warning education in parks, improve the safety compliance awareness of practitioners in the chemical industry, and build a governance pattern of whole-society joint supervision of chemical work safety.