Last week, it was confirmed from the Department of Science and Technology Standards of the Ministry of Environmental Protection that the “Technical Guidelines for the Preparation of Environmental Pollution Accident Emergency Preparedness Plans” (referred to as the “Guide”) formulated by China for the first time is widely soliciting opinions from relevant ministries, commissions, and chemical companies. When conditions are ripe, they will be used as National environmental protection standards were officially released and implemented. This standard will guide and standardize the formulation of emergency plans for accidents in chemical companies, so that chemical companies can follow rules in the preparation of emergency plans, so that emergency plans can really come in handy when a pollution accident occurs.

The "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Response to Incidents" stipulates that the units that produce, manage, store, transport, and use dangerous articles such as flammable, explosive materials, dangerous chemicals, and radioactive articles shall formulate specific emergency plans to prevent accidents. However, because there are no uniform standards, the emergency plans prepared by enterprises vary widely. Some companies also reflect that they cannot find out where to formulate an emergency plan, do not know where to start, and do not know what level the plan should achieve. It is difficult to ensure that the plan formulated in this way will play a role in the event of a pollution accident.

It is understood that the former State Environmental Protection Administration initiated the preparation of the “Technical Guidelines for the Preparation of Environmental Pollution Accident Emergency Preparedness Plans” in July 2006, and a consultation draft was formed in mid-June of this year. The “Guide” draft contains six parts, including the preparation process and the main contents of the plan, and is applicable to enterprises and institutions that are at risk of environmental pollution accidents, including units that discharge pollutants to the environment, production, storage, operation, and use. The units that transport hazardous materials, among which petroleum and chemical companies are a very important area.

The "Guide" stipulates that when preparing an environmental pollution accident emergency plan, a company shall include the following contents: organize the investigation of the basic conditions of environmental pollution accident hazard sources and surrounding environmental conditions and environmental protection targets; carry out environmental risk assessment and emergency response capability assessment; Emergency organization system and commanding organization; establishment of prevention and early warning and information reporting and notification systems; identification of methods and methods for monitoring and monitoring of hazardous sources; development of emergency response and rescue measures, including on-site emergency rescue of pollution accidents, emergency rescue of air pollution accidents, and water Emergency rescue of pollution accidents, on-site rescue of injured personnel, treatment and hospital treatment, emergency monitoring, on-site protection and on-site cleaning and disinfecting, aftercare, emergency training and drills.

“This standard is comprehensive, objective and detailed, and it is highly targeted and operable for enterprises to prepare environmental pollution accident emergency plans. It is of great significance to the chemical industry to prevent environmental pollution accident risks.” Du Xinli, Deputy Director of Shaanxi Provincial Environmental Monitoring Center Station The Guide made such an assessment.

According to reports, in recent years, China's environmental pollution accidents have entered a period of high incidence, and environmental pollution accidents that occur during the production, transportation, storage, use, and disposal of hazardous chemicals, flammable and explosive materials, and toxic and hazardous substances have been particularly prominent. During the "10th Five-Year Plan" period, there were 8,453 sudden environmental incidents across the country, with direct economic losses of 670 million yuan. Especially in 2006, environmental risks in the chemical industry were particularly high in the society due to the occurrence of extraordinarily large environmental emergencies such as excessive water pollution in the Lancang River in Sichuan, extraordinarily large water pollution in the Songhua River, major water pollution in Beijiang in Guangdong, blowout pollution in Chongqing Kaixian, and leakage of liquid chlorine in Huai'an, Jiangsu Province. Caused widespread concern.

"A lot of chemical companies and chemical projects under construction have not prepared emergency plans for environmental pollution accidents, or plan preparations have been in a state of formality, resulting in an inconvenience after an accident. Therefore, it is necessary to formulate a unified environmental pollution accident emergency response standard." Wang Jun, chief engineer of Environmental Protection Chemicals (Xi'an) Co., Ltd., told reporters.

In an interview, the reporter learned that chemical companies generally believe that this standard helps enterprises to deal with environmental pollution accidents with ease. However, some people in the industry feel that the standard threshold is set higher. For example, companies must appoint qualified consulting agencies to conduct environmental risk assessments based on the status of hazardous sources, surrounding environmental conditions, and environmental protection targets, and investigate the surrounding environmental conditions and environmental protection goals. This will inevitably require a certain amount of time, manpower, and financial resources, as well as some hardware facilities. The initial investment will definitely be larger. To this end, Wang Jun suggested that the threshold for the final determination of the "Guide" should not be too high, should be gradual and gradual improvement, not to allow companies to develop resistance or reluctance to adopt, which will help standards in chemical companies to be effectively promoted.

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