The Ministry of Emergency Management Deploys Key Safety Prevention Tasks for the Second Quarter

      April 7, the Ministry of Emergency Management held a Party Committee meeting and a department meeting to study and deploy key safety prevention work for the second quarter.

The meeting emphasized that entering the second quarter, safety production risks and flood season disasters intertwine and overlap, making the safety situation more severe and complex. It is necessary to always maintain a clear mind, take tough measures to manage major risks and hidden dangers, and focus on key safety prevention tasks.

First, strengthen safety risk prevention and control in key industries and fields. Take the implementation of eight hard measures for mine safety as a starting point, increase spot checks and inspections of resumed mines and exposure of illegal activities, strengthen the connection between administrative and criminal responsibilities and accountability investigations, and organize special inspections of mines and tailings ponds during the flood season. Continue to focus on fire prevention in "three types of places" and residential buildings, shopping malls, markets, hotels, restaurants, scenic spots, and amusement parks. Focus on the "two key points and one major" of hazardous chemicals, carry out supervision and inspection of major hazard source enterprises' "elimination and coordination," and urge enterprises to prepare for strong convective weather, lightning, high temperatures, and other preventive measures. Crack down hard on the forgery and sale of special operation certificates with both symptom and root cause treatment. Coordinate with relevant departments to strengthen safety supervision in transportation, construction, gas, and other industry sectors.

Second, continue to focus on forest and grassland fire prevention and control. Highlight key areas such as the Southwest and the "Three North" regions, cooperate with relevant departments to conduct rolling inspections of illegal outdoor fires and major fire hazards such as power transmission and distribution facilities, urge localities to make good use of the forest chief system, enforce fire prevention responsibilities, mobilize all forces to go deep into the front line to watch mountains and protect forests, widely carry out safety publicity and education training, and build a people's defense line for forest and grassland fire prevention and control. Fire rescue teams should pre-position forces in high fire risk areas, strengthen joint operations and coordination with local teams, and ensure early, small-scale, and effective firefighting.

Third, actively prevent and respond to various natural disasters during the flood season. Urge key areas to intensify monitoring and early warning of heavy rainfall, thunderstorms, strong winds, hail, and other disastrous weather, implement safety prevention measures for underground spaces, low-lying areas, temporary buildings, and outdoor operations. Promptly organize pre-flood inspections of major river basins, promote timely announcement of flood control responsible persons in various places, comprehensively investigate and rectify risks and hidden dangers such as mountain floods, geological disasters, and urban waterlogging, strictly implement the early warning response "call and respond" mechanism, and timely and efficiently evacuate threatened populations. Strengthen earthquake trend analysis and judgment and seismic monitoring and early warning, and urge key areas to solidly prepare emergency plans, teams, and equipment.