The situation of mine safety production remains grim and complex



Since the beginning of this year, the situation of mine safety in China has been generally stable. From January to February, there were 25 mining accidents and 40 deaths, down 46.8 percent and 43.7 percent, respectively, according to the Ministry of Emergency Management.

"However, the situation in mine production safety is still grim and complex, facing risks and challenges brought by continued high prices of mineral products, relatively concentrated resumption of work and production, increasingly serious major disasters, and tight continuation of mining and excavation." Zhang Xin, deputy director of the National Mine Safety Administration, said that the recent series of accidents in Guizhou, Yunnan and other places have exposed that some regions and enterprises do not have a strong concept of safety development, weak awareness of the rule of law, repeated violations of laws and regulations, the implementation of the main responsibility of enterprises is not in place, the safety foundation is weak, and the supervision and supervision capacity is insufficient. In this regard, the State Administration of Mine Safety Supervision requires that all levels of mine safety supervision and supervision departments should comprehensively use interview exposure, accountability, execution convergence, joint punishment and other means to punish and form a strong deterrent for all types of violations found.

Accelerate the promotion of "Internet plus regulation"

Since 2016, the number of underground coal mine operators in the country has decreased by a total of 370,000 people, the number of intelligent mining faces in the country has reached 813, and the intelligent violation control system has been applied in many coal mines. These cannot be separated from the national mine safety supervision department in recent years to accelerate the advancement of mine safety science and technology and the construction of intelligent information technology in coal mines.

According to Wang Duanwu, director of the Science and Technology Department of the National Mine Safety Administration, in order to continue to improve the level of mine safety security, the National mine Safety Administration adheres to the four aspects of "management, equipment, quality and system" and deeply promotes the construction of a standardized management system for coal mine safety production.

In terms of information construction, vigorously promote the construction of coal mine safety risk monitoring and early warning system, and all 2,611 coal mines under normal production and construction in the country are connected to the Internet, achieving full coverage of coal mine safety risk monitoring and perception data "a network"; The coal mine safety supervision and supervision business system has realized cross-level, whole-process and collaborative integration of law enforcement business applications. Last year, the whole system used the business system to produce more than 61,000 law enforcement documents, carried out more than 12,800 law enforcement activities, and the law enforcement informatization rate reached 100%. In addition, docking and sharing with the national integrated government service platform, 2,699 government service matters will be handled in 2021, and government services will be handled in one network.

According to reports, in order to accelerate the practical application of "Internet + supervision" in the field of mine safety, the construction of "electronic seals" in coal mines and the monitoring and analysis of electricity consumption index are currently being promoted to provide technical support for strictly preventing illegal and illegal organization production behaviors. In order to accelerate the application of information systems, a "daily report, weekly notification and monthly supervision" mechanism has been established for risk analysis and research. The number of national gas over-limit alarm records dropped from 1,632 in a single week to 199, and the number of over-limit alarms decreased significantly, providing a strong information support for preventing and resolving major risks in coal mines.

In addition, the Ministry of Emergency Management and the State Administration of Mine Safety have also made new progress and breakthroughs in promoting the intelligent construction of mines.

"At present, the number of intelligent mining faces in China has reached 813, an increase of 65 percent compared with 2020, and 29 kinds of coal mining robots have been applied in more than 370 mine sites." Sun Qingguo, director of the safety foundation Department of the State Administration of Mine Safety, said that there are 146 unmanned vehicles in open-pit coal mines, and the intelligent violation control system has been applied in many coal mines.

Special rectification began to tackle the root causes

"Since the three-year special rectification campaign for mine safety was launched in 2020, the special rectification of mine safety has achieved good results through the investigation and rectification in the first two years and the concentrated attack." Zhao Yuhui, deputy director of the comprehensive Department of the State Administration of Mine Safety, said.

It is understood that in order to soliously promote the three-year action to focus on hard work, the State Bureau of Mine Safety Supervision organized a full coverage of safety production checks in all coal mines, underground non-coal mines and tailings ponds, and carried out the "four special rectification" of mining outsourcing projects, resource integration coal mines, trustee-owned coal mines, and safety evaluation institutions. Special inspections were carried out on mining continuation, water and sand prevention, and hidden disaster factors, and a number of normative documents such as the "tailings pond Safety Regulations" and "Coal mine fire Prevention Rules" were formulated and issued. A total of 452,000 hidden dangers were investigated and rectified across the country, a number of prominent problems were solved, and 461 outsourcing teams were cleaned up.

In response to the arrangement and deployment of the three-year special rectification of mine safety production this year, Zhao Yuhui said that the National Bureau of Mine Safety Supervision will, in accordance with the "two fundamental" requirements of fundamentally eliminating hidden dangers of accidents and fundamentally solving problems, adhere to the principle of investigation, tackling and upgrading, from the three aspects of coal mine, non-coal mine mountain and tailings pond.

In the coal mine, in-depth investigation of outstanding problems, common problems and deep-rooted problems affecting coal mine safety production, dynamic inclusion in the "two lists", concentrated remediation.

In terms of non-coal mines, research and formulation of guiding opinions on strengthening the safety of non-coal mines, interim measures for the safety management of non-coal mining outsourcing projects, and guiding opinions on promoting the mechanization construction of small non-coal underground mines, focusing on the "7+30" key areas, implementing the closure, integration, and upgrading of the "three batches" project, and promoting root causes to achieve new results.

In terms of tailings ponds, strictly control the total amount of tailings ponds, complete the safety management task of the "top storage" on schedule, comprehensively promote the safety management of tailings ponds in key river basins such as the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the Yellow River basin, the Jialing River basin, the Wujiang River basin and the surrounding areas of the Danjiangkou Reservoir area, and promote the implementation of closure and sale of tailings ponds that have no production and operation subjects and have been out of use for more than three years.

We will crack down on six types of illegal mining activities

On December 15 last year, Xiaoyi in Luliang, Shanxi Province, and on December 27 in Jiangxian County, Yuncheng City, an illegal mining of mineral resources resulted in casualties. "In order to learn lessons from the accident, we have taken precautions from three aspects: fighting non-violations, special rectification and increasing reporting." Zhao Yuhui introduced that the Security Commission Office of The State Council issued a special notice to severely crack down on six types of illegal mining activities such as unlicensed mining, super-layer cross-border, multiple Wells with one license, and resurgent mining, and made arrangements to improve the long-term working mechanism, strictly shut down mines, severely punish accountability and strengthen social supervision. Actively cooperate with the political and legal organs and natural resources departments to carry out special rectification actions to crack down on mineral resources crimes and gold mine "washing holes".

For the work of "fighting non-violations" in mines this year, the State Bureau of Mine Safety Supervision has arranged and deployed the two fields of coal mine and non-coal mine mountain respectively.

In the coal mine, focus on the rectification of super ability, super strength, overquota and other 19 illegal acts; Organize and carry out special supervision of coal mining and follow-up, and strictly prevent the occurrence of systematic safety risks such as insufficient measures for mining and follow-up and no coal to be mined; Increase the intensity of open investigation and covert visits, the State Bureau of mine safety at least 10 open investigation and covert visits every month, to key mining areas, key mining enterprises to carry out supervision and inspection; To carry out regular remote supervision and law enforcement, recently organized 12 working groups to Shanxi, Heilongjiang, Henan, Guizhou and other 10 regions to carry out a 3-week remote law enforcement, the key task is to "fight non-violation."

In the aspect of non-coal mine, we will severely crack down on the behaviors of pre-construction without approval, construction on behalf of mining, construction while designing and production. Carry out four special inspections on flood season safety, the implementation of the "three simultaneous" system for construction project safety facilities, central enterprises in non-coal mines, and the implementation of typical accident prevention measures at the end of the year and the beginning of the year; In addition, improve the law enforcement mechanism, increase the law enforcement of enterprises with large security risks and low safety production credit, and force enterprises to strengthen the implementation of the main responsibility through strict supervision and law enforcement.