Strengthen coal mine dust source control and occupational health protection work

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the prevention and treatment of occupational diseases has adhered to the principle of "facing people's life and health", carried out fruitful work, and made considerable progress and remarkable achievements, especially in the use of engineering means to treat the source, and some technologies have reached the international advanced level, and are in the position of "running" and "leading".

However, the prevention and treatment of occupational diseases in China is still a long way to go, especially the prevention and treatment of pneumoconiosis, which still has weak links, such as insufficient investment initiative in some enterprises, insufficient administrative supervision, lack of social supervision, and excessive occupational hazard factors in some production sites, which seriously threaten the health and life safety of employees and surrounding residents.

The survey found that at present, the average annual number of new cases of occupational diseases in China is more than 20,000, and the annual new cases and deaths far exceed the safety accidents. By the end of 2020, China has reported a total of 1.011 million cases of occupational diseases, of which 904,000 cases of occupational pneumoconiosis, accounting for 89.4%, and more than 60% are coal workers' pneumoconiosis in coal mines. About 4,000 people die of pneumoconiosis in coal mines every year, seriously restricting the construction of a healthy China and affecting the high-quality economic and social development.

Therefore, it is urgent and of great significance to implement the requirements of "facing people's life and health", accelerate the "air revolution" in China's mines, and pay attention to dust source control and occupational health protection. The author suggests:

First, incorporate the "14th Five-Year Plan" to provide top-level design guidelines. Improve policy planning, and incorporate major scientific and technological problems and technical equipment research and development in relevant fields into the "14th Five-Year Plan" National Key research and development plan and the project guide of the National Natural Science Foundation Committee to provide institutional guarantee and policy guidance for the continuous improvement of occupational health in coal mines in China.

Secondly, implement the main responsibility of enterprises and improve the resource guarantee mechanism. To formulate and implement regulations for the prevention and control of occupational diseases in coal mines, carry out technological innovation and project demonstration construction for the prevention and control of occupational diseases at their source, guide coal mine enterprises to make overall arrangements for daily operation, production safety and occupational health by means of macro-control measures such as fiscal, taxation and financial regulation and administrative supervision, and promote the strengthening of special funds for the prevention and control of occupational diseases at their source. Increase the investment in scientific research such as dust and other occupational hazards, occupational health hazards research and screening, occupational health intelligent warning, etc., consolidate the main responsibility of occupational health management of coal mine enterprises, and provide the basic guarantee for China's coal mine occupational health work.

Finally, we should innovate the social participation system and strengthen social support and security. Support qualified universities in building state-level innovation platforms such as State key laboratories for coal mine dust control and occupational health and national engineering research centers. Adhere to government leadership and social participation, provide social security for occupational health work in coal mines, build an occupational disease prevention and monitoring platform in coal mines, establish and improve monitoring networks, keep abreast of the national occupational hazard factors such as dust and pneumoconiosis prevention and control, and regularly release occupational disease prevention and control information in key coal mines. Comprehensively promote the "air revolution" in China's mines, and serve the life and health of miners.