On the 4th, a violent explosion occurred in the port area of Beirut, Lebanon. As of 21:00 local time on the 5th, the Beirut port explosion had killed at least 135 people, injured more than 5,000 people, and dozens of others were missing. The Chinese Embassy in Lebanon confirmed on the 5th that a Chinese citizen was slightly injured in the explosion and has now received treatment.
Beirut implements a state of emergency, and port losses may exceed 10 billion US dollars
On the 5th, Lebanese President Aoun chaired an emergency cabinet meeting and approved a special allocation of 100 billion Lebanese pounds (approximately 460 million yuan) for In the aftermath, Beirut was declared to have entered a two-week state of emergency and security control of Beirut was handed over to the military.
According to a report by Al Arabiya TV on the 5th, Beirut Governor Marwan Abboud said that the economic losses caused by the Beirut port explosion may be as high as 10 billion to 15 billion US dollars.
China takes action: launches nationwide special inspection and rectification of hazardous chemical storage safety
8 On March 5, the Office of the State Council Security Committee and the Ministry of Emergency Management held a meeting to deeply learn from the lessons of the major explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, and deploy a nationwide special inspection and rectification of the safety of hazardous chemical storage.
The meeting pointed out that my country is a major chemical country in the world, and there are a large number of ports, docks, warehouses, yards, hazardous chemical transport vehicles, and transport ships involving hazardous chemicals, and safety risks are constantly increasing. The major explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, has once again sounded the alarm for us.
The meeting requested that special inspections and rectifications on the safety of hazardous chemical storage across the country be carried out immediately, focusing on ports, terminals, logistics warehouses, chemical industrial parks, etc.
Emergency management departments should urge relevant production and operating enterprises to implement measures such as cooling, ventilation, and keeping away from fire in storage links. It is strictly forbidden to store excessive amounts, exceed varieties, and mix and store mutually taboo substances, and ensure that relevant cooling sprays, monitoring and alarms, The fire protection system and other equipment and facilities are in good condition and effective.
The transportation department and customs at all levels should organize inspections of all ports, warehouses (yards), and wharfs involving hazardous chemicals, and punish behaviors such as unqualified safety conditions, excessive storage, and illegal mixed storage in accordance with the law, and order Corrections are in place within a time limit.
Departments of industry and information technology, public security, and market supervision should organize and investigate the illegal production, storage, and use of ammonium nitrate and other civilian explosives in accordance with the division of responsibilities, and implement sales and purchase license approval and flow information registration systems.
The ecological environment department must carry out in-depth safety inspections of hazardous wastes and effectively implement safety precautions.
All regions must carry out quantitative risk assessments for all storage locations of ammonium nitrate and other explosive hazardous materials, and organize experienced experts and experts to provide in-depth front-line guidance services, conduct overt and covert inspections, and truly carry out in-depth and specific investigations.
The meeting pointed out that the lessons of every accident are gained with lives and blood, but the rectification measures proposed in some major accident investigation reports are often “shelved”, and it is necessary to carry out in-depth “look back” on the implementation of rectification measures for major accidents , work hard on implementation. It is necessary to strengthen accountability for effectiveness, and those who fail to implement rectification measures, leave major issues unresolved, or delay major risks and hidden dangers will be handed over to the disciplinary inspection and supervision agencies for accountability.
August every year is a month when major accidents occur relatively intensively. The Ministry of Emergency Management has organized multiple supervision and inspection teams to conduct overt and covert inspections in key areas of hazardous chemicals in the early stage, and carried out special inspections and supervision of more than 7,600 hazardous chemical companies and more than 22,000 major hazard sources.
Comprehensive investigation and rectification of “small chemical industries”: more than 380 tons of hazardous chemicals have been disposed of
Illegal and illegal “small chemical industries” are poor in safety, highly concealed and highly harmful, and operate in violation of laws and regulations, seriously affecting public safety.
China Oriental United News Agency reporter Ma Ji reported from Ping An Yixing: In the 100-day special campaign to rectify “small chemical industries”, Yixing police jointly conducted emergency management, market supervision, ecological environment and various towns (streets) to conduct in-depth safety inspections Hidden dangers, safety supervision measures shall be strictly implemented, and illegal and criminal activities of “small chemical” enterprises investigated and dealt with shall be severely cracked down in accordance with the law!
Illegal business operation, criminal detention!
At about 15:00 pm on July 21st, Xinzhuang Police Station and Xinzhuang Street Emergency Office carried out a joint special rectification of “small chemicals”. They seized a suspected illegal operation of hazardous chemicals in a plastic products business factory in the jurisdiction, and promptly eliminated this case. A safety hazard.
After investigation, the criminal suspects Zhang Mouming and Jiang Moujun wanted to engage in the plastic product processing industry, and the two did not obtain hazardous chemicals With the business license and relevant business licenses, more than 40 tons of hazardous chemicals liquid alkali (scientific name: sodium hydroxide) were purchased from upstream companies and stored in tanks located in the business department, and the hazardous chemicals were stored by themselves , subpackaging and sales, the amount involved was more than 500,000 yuan.
At present, the two people have been subject to criminal compulsory measures in accordance with the law on suspicion of illegal business crimes, and the case is under further processing.
Since the launch of the 100-day special operation, Yixing police have successively investigated enterprises, small businesses, There are more than 670 workshops, 10 “two small and one illegal” enterprises have been discovered and handed over to the competent authorities for investigation and punishment, and more than 380 tons of hazardous chemicals have been properly disposed of in conjunction with the emergency management department.
It is understood that in the next step, Yixing police will cooperate with relevant functional departments to further increase the investigation of hidden dangers and strict law enforcement, strictly deal with and clean up those who do not meet the conditions for safe production, and make every effort to prevent and control risks and maintain Public safety.
<br
