Dangerous chemical transport accidents are common

Shandong is a major province for road transport of dangerous goods. By the end of 2012, the province had a total of 766 road dangerous goods transport companies, 24,977 road dangerous goods transport vehicles, which accounted for 9% of the total number of road dangerous goods vehicles, with a total tonnage of 495,600 tons. The dangerous goods category covers all dangerous goods. class. Dongying is the city with the most dangerous road transport in the province. From June 20 to June 22, the reporter went to Dongying District, Lijin Transportation Department, and hazardous chemicals transportation companies to visit the transportation authorities and hazardous chemicals transportation companies to ensure the safety of dangerous goods road transportation.

"Almost all major accidents."

At about 22:55 on June 4, 2011, a tanker truck loaded with chemical phenols caused a vehicle rear-end collision at the exit of the Xin'anjiang Expressway of the Hangzhou-Xinjing Expressway, causing partial phenol leakage. Due to the impact of the heavy rain, the incident caused part of the leakage of phenol with rainwater into the Xin'an River, affecting 550,000 people, Hangzhou started drinking water source to defend the battle.

At 2 o'clock on the morning of August 26th, 2012, an extraordinarily serious traffic accident occurred on the Baomao Expressway in Yan'an, Shaanxi Province. A double-decker horizontal bus and a tanker with methanol were rear-ended and caused two vehicles to catch fire. 36 people were confirmed dead in the accident. .

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“As long as the accidental transportation vehicle is an accident, it is almost always a major accident.” He had been driving a hazardous chemicals transportation vehicle for more than a decade. Today, Huo Haijun, who is already the manager of the Luying Transportation Company of Dongying District, told reporters that although he is a corporate manager, However, it is still scary for dangerous goods vehicles driving on the road. “Especially at night, when you hear the cell phone ringing, you are scared, for fear that the car is on the road.” Huo Haijun had seen the accident’s car and let him The most impressive thing is that the dangerous goods vehicle in Yanan collided with the passenger car. “Look more at some accident cases and have warning and reminding the driver.”

Liu Hongxing, manager of Dongying Wantong Oil and Gas Transport Co., Ltd., said that he also drove dangerous goods transport vehicles for many years and knew that driving personnel was not easy. Therefore, every time a unit opened a safety training conference, he always said, “Stay on the road.” Don't worry, safety first."

Reliance on safety and safety

Talking about the current operation of hazardous chemicals, whether it is the transportation companies in Dongying District or Lijin County, they are bitter: “The freight rate is too low. Our company allocated diesel to gas stations and the price per ton-km was more than 10 years ago. With the increasing number of companies entering the market, freight rates have continued to fall and have entered a vicious cycle."

“The cost of personnel is too high. From 2010 till now, the monthly salary of drivers has risen by an average of more than 2,000 yuan. One car requires two drivers. The wages for a car in January are nearly 15,000 yuan.”

"Operating costs have continued to increase. First, the purchase of cars is about 80,000 more expensive than regular trucks. The number of years of scrap has also been reduced from the previous 15 years to 10 years, and the cost of use has increased."

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However, companies do not seem to pay much attention to security. Although the reporter interviewed a number of companies in training files, annotated the training time, training content, the trainee's signature, etc., but a staff member of the traffic department told reporters: "The importance of the company's security is far from the pursuit of economic interests So important, we have seen the training records of the same individual in two months when examining the training records."

In the Dongying District Transportation Bureau, the reporter saw the Notice of Rectification of Accident Hazards issued to a company by the Bureau of Transportation Management of the Bureau: “The education and training of employees was not performed as required, the training records were incomplete, and the GPS monitoring records were not complete. According to the requirements of the hidden investigation and treatment ..."

“The “Regulations on the Administration of Hazardous Chemicals Safety” clearly stipulates that hazardous chemicals transportation companies should be equipped with full-time safety management personnel. In actual inspections, we discovered that some units’ safety administrators also have office and financial functions. Not enough attention to safety." Lijin County Transportation Bureau staff said.

In view of this situation, according to the "Standardization for the Safety of Road Dangerous Goods Transportation Enterprises", the Bureau has formulated the "Safety Production Evaluation Standards for Transporting Dangerous Goods" in accordance with local conditions. The evaluation of enterprises is also issued to the enterprises at the same time, Its self-assessment, to do a good job of safety standardization construction.

"When we evaluate companies, we often say to them that 'safety is efficiency'. If we fail to pay attention to safety, an accident occurs. The loss of hundreds of thousands or even millions is not what the operation can earn in a few days. ."

"Three customs and one supervision"

The “Regulations on the Safety Management of Dangerous Chemicals” (State Council Decree No. 591) assigns “three-to-one supervision” to the work of the transportation authorities on the safety management of road dangerous goods transport, that is, the qualification of qualified road transport companies for dangerous goods and their employees. Professional qualification and transportation vehicle technical clearance, and do a good job of supervision and inspection of the above work. “For the transport sector, the main responsibility is 'three supervision and one supervision',” said the person in charge of the Transportation Management Department of the Dongying District Transportation Bureau.

In order to properly supervise the management of 15 hazardous chemicals transportation companies within the jurisdiction of the region, the Dongying District Hidden Self-inspection and Self-Reporting System has been officially put into operation. The system is divided into basic management and on-site management. The basic management includes 25 qualification certificates, safety production management agencies and personnel, and safety production responsibility system. On-site management is divided into production equipment and facilities, fire and emergency safety, and employee operating behavior. 42 items are classified into three levels: no hidden dangers, general hidden dangers, and major hidden dangers. Enterprises must report monthly hidden troubles on a monthly basis.

The Lijin County Transportation Bureau implements a “full-track” service for safety emergency drills held by enterprises and conducts audits on the time, subjects, plans, and numbers of emergency drills the company plans to carry out. If the emergency content is the same as before, it is recommended to modify it. At this time, not only the local safety supervision department was invited to observe, but also other hazardous chemicals transportation companies came to observe the study. In the emergency drill held by Chenzhuang Baitong Logistics Co., Ltd. on June 17th, all the hazardous chemicals transport companies in the region were on the scene, and one of the companies also had six drivers.

“In this way, you can learn from each other, and you also save manpower and material resources, and achieve resource sharing,” said the person in charge of the Lijing County Transportation Bureau.

Long-term supervision mechanism

According to the "Regulations on the Administration of Road Dangerous Goods Transportation," the current number of road permits for hazardous chemicals applications requires that the number of dangerous goods transport vehicles be set at the bottom line of 5 vehicles. "Some self-employed households use anchored vehicles after purchasing dangerous chemicals vehicles themselves. This has brought certain difficulties to our supervision, said the staff of Lijin County Transportation Bureau.

According to reports, although the relevant departments have a strict examination and approval system for the transportation of dangerous chemicals, there are still some individual owners in the society that are “undocumented and illegally transported” outside the line of sight of the industry management department. “This is an enterprise and an individual. The agreements concluded that these illegally-operated individual transport owners do not have the qualifications for transporting dangerous chemicals and engage in unfair competition by means such as depressing freight rates."

It is understood that the current domestic dangerous goods safety management work is performed jointly by various administrative departments such as safety supervision, fire control, public security, quality inspection, environmental protection, transportation, health, industry and commerce, etc., with multiple levels, complicated procedures, long supervision, and insufficient coordination. The long-term mechanism leading to safety supervision of dangerous goods is still missing.

“At present, we can only do long-term supervision of the transport industry. However, the establishment of a multi-sector coordination and long-term supervision mechanism requires the concerted efforts of various departments to strengthen communication and exchanges.”