East China’s Jiangsu province kicked off a seminar on production safety in response to the State Council’s investigation report on the deadly blast at Jiangsu Tianjiayi Chemical Co Ltd. in Xiangshui County in March this year that claimed 78 lives and injured more than 600 people.
The seminar was held with a view to implementing the requirements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on production safety and conveying the gist of the provincial conference on production safety awareness education.
Officials from the provincial emergency department, the provincial disciplinary committee and the provincial fire and relief detachment gave reports on the implementation of production safety and post-accident rescue and relief.
Fan Jinlong, executive vice governor of Jiangsu, stressed the importance of implementing the gist of the speeches of Lou Qinjian and Wu Zhenglong at the provincial conference on production safety awareness education.
He asked the relevant government departments to strengthen production safety by launching a province-wide inspection of the production and management of dangerous chemicals so as to phase out safety hazards in the production, storage, transportation and waste disposal procedures of dangerous chemicals.
The State Council said in a statement after its executive meeting on Nov 13 that a number of wrongdoings led to the deadly explosion at the chemical plant in Jiangsu province on March 21.
The inquiry has deemed the incident to be a major work safety accident that exposed the failures of local authorities and departments in assuming responsibilities and in punishing violations of the law, the State Council said in the statement.
It also revealed how businesses failed to carry out their primary responsibilities for work safety, violating laws and regulations and demonstrating a lack of credibility, the statement said.
