From July 5 to 20, the Central Inspection Team conducted open and unannounced inspections of work safety in Shandong.

To thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions and批示 on work safety, and fully carry out the work deployment of the national work safety video conference, from July 5 to July 20, the 16th Team of the Central Work Safety Assessment and Inspection Team conducted a special open and unannounced inspection for the second and third quarters in Shandong Province. Focusing on core tasks such as the rectification of risks and hidden dangers in key industry sectors and the implementation of regulatory enforcement, the team carried out comprehensive, in-depth, and strict supervision and inspection.

On July 6, the entry meeting of the assessment and inspection team was held in Jining City, marking the full entry of this special open and unannounced inspection work into the on-site supervision phase.

It is reported that this open and unannounced inspection work is characterized by great intensity, strict standards, and precise targeting. It strictly implements the deployment requirements of the State Council Work Safety Committee, adheres to the working principles of "issuing more bulletins, sending more supervision letters, conducting more unannounced visits, filming more hidden danger scenes, and rooting out more people who 'let things slide'," and carries out special supervision around four core directions. The focus is on solidifying primary-level work safety responsibilities, rectifying chaos in regulatory enforcement, investigating major safety hidden dangers, and strengthening the deterrence of public opinion and mass supervision. As a field with concentrated high risks and key regulatory attention, the chemical industry is the core focus of this inspection in Shandong. Corporate compliance operations, hidden danger investigation and governance, implementation of safety systems, and the landing of law enforcement supervision will undergo comprehensive, no-dead-spot verification.

At the entry meeting, Zhou Tian, head of the assessment and inspection team, made comprehensive arrangements for this open and unannounced inspection work. He emphasized that the Party Central Committee and the State Council have always placed work safety in an important position, and General Secretary Xi Jinping has issued important instructions and批示 on multiple occasions, providing fundamental guidelines for work safety. The current work safety situation remains severe and complex. All levels and departments across the province must stand at the overall height, deepen the study and education of establishing and practicing the correct view of political achievements, effectively enhance the political, ideological, and action consciousness of grasping work safety well, and shoulder the political responsibility of preventing and defusing major safety risks.

Zhou Tian pointed out that this assessment and inspection is a key measure to solidify work safety responsibilities and build a strong safety defense line, possessing strong political, guiding, and targeted nature. All regions and industry competent departments in Shandong must proactively benchmark against the inspection tasks, comprehensively carry out self-inspection and self-correction, not cover up shortcomings, avoid problems, solidly advance the three-year action for tackling the root causes of work safety, deeply carry out "one matter" whole-chain safety rectification in key industry sectors, normally promote the special work of "cracking down on illegal violations," and firmly rectify outstanding problems such as "letting things slide" in regulatory enforcement, dereliction of duty, and malfeasance. They must use strict and practical measures to hold the bottom line of the people's lives and property safety and ensure the continued stability of the overall social situation.

Zhou Naixiang, Deputy Secretary of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee and Governor, made a statement on behalf of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government. He stated that Shandong will resolutely implement the work safety decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, deeply practice the correct view of political achievements, adhere to bottom-line thinking and extreme thinking, advance in depth the three-year action for tackling the root causes of work safety, and grasp solid safety supervision and hidden danger governance for all industries, especially high-risk fields such as the chemical industry.

The province will fully cooperate with this open and unannounced inspection work, report work situations truthfully, actively accept inspection and verification, sincerely accept the problems fed back by the inspection team, make immediate rectifications, and achieve closed-loop rectification. At the same time, taking this inspection as an opportunity, the province will draw inferences from one instance to make up for institutional shortcomings, layer by layer tighten and solidify work safety responsibilities, and continuously improve the modernization level of work safety governance across the region. Vice Governor Sun Ximin attended this entry meeting.

According to the four core supervision points of this open and unannounced inspection, combined with the characteristics of work safety in the chemical industry, this special inspection will form a comprehensive, in-depth, and strict supervision situation for the chemical industry in Shandong, forcing the industry to thoroughly rectify chronic maladies and stubborn problems.

This supervision focuses on the layered implementation of work safety responsibilities in chemical enterprises, strictly investigating problems such as hollow corporate primary responsibilities, inadequate performance of grassroots posts, and formalistic systems; it keeps a close eye on the whole chain of chemical production, storage, transportation, and waste disposal, digging deep into major accident hidden dangers such as aging equipment, process violations, lack of explosion-proof facilities, and failure of risk control and management; it focuses on verifying the law enforcement performance of territorial regulatory departments towards chemical enterprises, severely investigating problems such as loose and soft regulation, "letting things slide" in law enforcement, dereliction of duty, malfeasance, and the interest chains behind them, and resolutely transferring discovered major hidden dangers and illegal violations for accountability.

Facing this high-pressure inspection situation, the chemical industry in Shandong and chemical enterprises within the jurisdiction have fully entered the critical stage of self-inspection and rectification as well as quality improvement and efficiency enhancement. Emergency management departments in various regions have immediately deployed chemical enterprises within their jurisdictions to carry out comprehensive self-inspection and self-correction. Benchmarking against the standards of this inspection, they focus on key links such as production process safety, equipment and facility operation and maintenance, hidden danger investigation and governance, emergency disposal capability, employee safety training, and ledger system construction, conducting item-by-item investigation and rectification line by line, establishing problem ledgers, responsibility ledgers, and rectification ledgers, and achieving closed-loop management.

Chemical enterprises proactively implement the primary responsibility for work safety and comprehensively carry out self-inspection and self-correction work, focusing on rectifying outstanding problems such as the operation of production devices with defects, non-standard storage of hazardous chemicals, lax execution of safety operating procedures, and formalistic emergency drills. At the same time, enterprises further improve long-term safety management mechanisms, refine post safety responsibilities, normally carry out all-staff safety warning education and practical training, improve emergency plans and regularly conduct practical drills, and comprehensively improve risk prediction, hidden danger rectification, and emergency disposal capabilities. In addition, enterprises proactively cooperate with the supervision and inspection of regulatory departments, truthfully report production, operation, and safety management situations, make immediate rectifications for problems discovered in self-inspections, and adopt chart-based operations and closed-number management for problems with deadlines for rectification, making every effort to prevent and defuse various safety risks.

Next, taking this Central Work Safety Assessment and Inspection as an opportunity, Shandong will continue to deepen the special safety rectification of the chemical industry, force industry transformation and upgrading through inspection and rectification, build a strong work safety defense line through strict supervision, thoroughly rectify various safety hidden dangers in the chemical field, firmly prevent and contain major and particularly major safety accidents, and make every effort to create a safe, stable, and orderly environment for industry development and social environment.