The Office of the Security Committee of the State Council on the development
Notice of the fire safety centralized elimination and rectification action
Security Committee Office Letter [2024] No. 3
To all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, relevant member units of the State Council Safety Committee, and relevant central enterprises:
On January 24, 2024, a particularly serious fire accident occurred at a street shop in Xinyu City, Jiangxi Province, killing 39 people and injuring 9 others. On January 19, a major fire accident occurred in the dormitory building of the Yingcai School in Dushu Town, Fangcheng County, Nanyang City, Henan Province, killing 13 children and injuring one. Within a week, major and particularly serious fire accidents occurred in succession, and the problems exposed were extremely profound. In order to conscientiously implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions and the instructions of the central leading comrades, in accordance with the deployment of the national television and telephone conference on production safety, resolutely and thoroughly rectify the outstanding risks and hidden dangers in key places, and resolutely prevent and curb the occurrence of fire accidents involving mass deaths and injuries, the Office of the State Council Safety Committee has decided to organize and carry out a large-scale rectification action of fire safety in a centralized manner across the country from now until the end of March. The relevant matters are hereby notified as follows:
First, the objectives and tasks
Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, adhere to the "two firsts" and "two fundamentals", fully understand the current extremely severe fire situation, focus on key areas, focus on key links, make precise efforts, eliminate troubles, take multiple measures at the same time, and implement comprehensive policies, effectively improve the quality of investigation and rectification of major fire safety risks and hidden dangers, effectively improve the strong willingness and ability to find and solve problems, make every effort to prevent and resolve major safety risks, and resolutely reverse the passive situation of frequent fires. By focusing on large-scale investigation, large-scale rectification, large-scale exposure, large-scale drills, interviews, and large-scale supervision actions, we will comprehensively investigate the outstanding risks and hidden dangers of the "nine small places", multi-format mixed production and operation sites, and densely populated places, strictly implement the key requirements of rectification, and effectively transmit the pressure to the grassroots units and the end of the society, promote the compaction of the most terminal fire prevention responsibility, and resolutely curb the occurrence of major fire accidents.
Second, the scope of remediation
(1) "Nine small places". Including small schools and kindergartens, small medical institutions, small shops, small restaurants, small hotels, small singing and dancing entertainment, small Internet cafes, small beauty baths, small production and processing enterprises and other places.
(2) Multi-format mixed production and operation sites. It includes a collection of catering, accommodation, entertainment, commerce, warehousing, culture, sports, training and other multi-functional business premises, sublease, sublease to form a production and storage of multi-functional labor-intensive enterprises and other places.
(3) Crowded places. Including hotels, restaurants, public entertainment venues, large commercial complexes, hospitals, boarding primary and secondary schools, nursing homes, tourist venues, children's welfare homes and other places.
III. Emphasis on Healing
Deeply absorb the lessons of the "1.24" particularly major fire accident in Xinyu City, Jiangxi Province, and the "1.19" major fire accident in Nanyang City, Henan Province, and focus on rectifying the following key problems:
(1) Construction operations and production and operation in violation of laws and regulations.
1. Construction operations without approval, unlicensed construction operations, illegal demolition operations, illegal layer by layer subcontracting construction operations, and risky operations without implementing operational safety measures.
2. Illegal use of open flame or electric welding and gas welding operations, fire, electric welding, and gas welding operators are not certified to work, electric welding and gas welding operations have not gone through the fire approval procedures, and the corresponding fire safety measures have not been taken at the operation site.
3. No special personnel were arranged for on-site safety management during hot work.
4. The hot welding operation and spark operation on the construction site are carried out intersecting with the operation with fire and explosion risk.
5. The use of flammable and combustible insulation materials in the cold storage set up in densely populated places and underground buildings in violation of regulations, and the fire prevention measures are not strictly implemented during the construction, renovation and demolition of the cold storage.
(2) Insufficient conditions for safe evacuation.
1. Occupying, blocking, and closing evacuation passages, safety exits, and fire truck passages.
2. The number and width of safety exits and evacuation stairs are insufficient.
3. Emergency broadcasting, emergency lighting, and evacuation indication signs are damaged.
4. Failure to formulate fire extinguishing and emergency evacuation plans based on the actual situation, and employees and dormitory staff do not master the skills of initial fire fighting and organization of evacuation and escape.
5. The multi-format mixed production and operation site has not determined the responsible person to carry out unified management of the shared evacuation channels and safety exits.
(3) Setting up anti-theft nets and billboards in violation of regulations.
1. In densely populated places, anti-theft nets, iron fences, billboards and other obstacles that affect escape and fire fighting and rescue should be set up on doors and windows.
2. Failure to check whether the public safety of the building is affected when approving outdoor billboards in crowded places in accordance with laws and regulations.
Each region can further refine the key points of rectification in combination with the characteristics of fire risks and hidden dangers in local "nine small places", multi-format mixed production and operation sites, and densely populated places, such as the illegal use of flammable and combustible sandwich color steel plate materials in densely populated places, damage to building fire protection facilities and other hidden dangers.
Fourth, work measures
(1) Concentrate on carrying out large-scale investigation actions. All regions should issue notices on the rectification of three types of key places, comprehensively launch self-inspection and self-improvement of fire safety in three types of places, highlight risks and hidden dangers, require site responsible persons and managers to lead teams to carry out self-inspections, and sign to confirm that self-inspection records are archived for future reference. All relevant departments and units should formulate and issue the key points of fire inspection in three types of places, organize and carry out fire safety inspections in the industry, and find out the outstanding risks and hidden dangers in the industry. It is necessary to organize and mobilize grassroots forces such as public security police stations, fire work stations, and comprehensive law enforcement teams to carry out investigations, and promptly report to township governments and neighborhood offices for outstanding risks and hidden dangers that are difficult to rectify, and organize relevant departments to jointly investigate and deal with them.
(2) Concentrate on carrying out large-scale rectification actions. All regions, relevant departments and units should register and register the outstanding risks and hidden dangers found in the investigation, manage them in a closed-loop manner, implement policies by category, and write off the accounts one by one. For those that are difficult to rectify, they should be the targets of tackling tough problems and rectifications, clarifying the responsibilities and plans for rectification, refining the rectification measures and time limits, and rectifying one place and closing one case. For units and establishments that fail to make corrections within the time limit or refuse to make corrections, they should stiffen their wrists, make full use of law enforcement methods, and deal with them strictly, severely, and quickly in accordance with the law. In particular, it is necessary to resolutely crack down on and rectify problems such as illegal fire and welding construction operations, evacuation channel blockage, and illegal installation of iron fences. Where there is serious untrustworthy conduct, it should be entered into the credit management platform, and joint disciplinary action should be carried out. For those suspected of committing crimes, strengthen the connection between executions and executions, pursue criminal responsibility in accordance with law, and never tolerate or accommodate.
(3) Concentrate on carrying out large-scale exposure actions. All regions should concentrate on exposing typical hidden dangers, prominent problems, and serious illegal acts, and announce the names of units and specific problems to the public. For those with particularly prominent hidden dangers and particularly serious illegal acts, coordinate the exposure of the central media, provincial and local mainstream media, and promote the rectification of hidden dangers. Use media platforms to vigorously publicize reporting and complaint channels, implement relevant incentive measures, and mobilize the public to report fire hazards and fire violations. All regions, relevant departments and units should strengthen warning education on typical fire cases, analyze the causes and lessons of fire accidents, and improve the public's ability and quality of fire safety. It is necessary to widely carry out common sense propaganda such as the safe use of fire, electricity and gas, the safe discharge of fireworks and firecrackers, the smooth passage of life, and emergency evacuation and escape, and guide residents to consciously implement the "three clearances and three customs".
(4) Concentrate on carrying out large-scale exercises. All regions, relevant departments and units should focus on three types of key places, such as "nine small places", multi-format mixed production and operation, and dense personnel, and highlight the "seven types of key groups" such as business owners, employees, dormitory administrators, medical staff and nurses, property personnel, security guards, grassroots law enforcement personnel and grid personnel, as well as volunteer fire brigades (micro fire stations), full-time fire brigades of township governments, and full-time fire brigades of enterprises. Carry out the methods and steps of review and evaluation, organize and carry out fire safety drills, strive to improve the ability of personnel to fight and evacuate from the initial fire, and strive to achieve that everyone can escape and respond to emergencies.
(5) Concentrate on carrying out interviews. All regions should combine large-scale investigation and rectification actions, carefully study and judge fire safety risks in key industries and fields, issue work reminders to relevant departments and units, point out outstanding risks and hidden dangers, and put forward preventive countermeasures. For fire-prone areas and industries with prominent problems, it is necessary to organize grass-roots governments and industry departments to carry out interviews and issue work warning letters. A number of major fire hazards have been supervised in various regions to form a strong deterrent effect. For hidden dangers that are difficult to rectify and the risk of fire is high, all regions should organize and convene on-site meetings for the rectification of hidden dangers, clarify responsibilities, explain risks, explain hazards, and supervise the implementation of rectification.
(6) Concentrate on carrying out large-scale supervision actions. All provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) should organize relevant departments to jointly set up a number of supervision groups to sink to cities and counties, carry out "penetrating", "corroborative" and "related" open and secret investigations, and equip media and camera personnel to check the video with the team, and hold a warning meeting after the end of each region, broadcast warning education films, analyze the deep-seated causes, report the lack of work problems, transmit work pressure, and put forward suggestions and measures. All industry departments should set up supervision groups and law enforcement teams, led by department leaders, assign business backbones, and carry out supervision and inspection in different regions. The Office of the State Council Safety Committee will organize and carry out supervision and inspection work in a timely manner.
Fifth, the work steps
(1) Mobilization and deployment (before the end of January 2024). Combined with the actual situation, refine the action plan for the region and the system to eliminate the problem and tackle the key points, clarify the scope and focus of the rectification, refine the division of tasks and work responsibilities, and make special deployments and launches. Widely release the announcement of fire safety rectification to the society, forming a strong momentum for eliminating trouble.
(2) Eliminate the problem (before mid-March 2024). In accordance with the deployment of the large-scale rectification action, we will focus on carrying out large-scale investigations, large-scale rectifications, large-scale exposures, large-scale drills, interviews, and large-scale supervision actions, and comprehensively investigate the "nine small places", multi-format mixed production and operation sites, and densely populated places to highlight risks and hidden dangers, strictly implement the key requirements of rectification, and ensure that the large-scale rectification work achieves practical results. It is necessary to integrate and mobilize the forces of public security police stations, comprehensive law enforcement teams, grid personnel and other parties, organize comprehensive training, and improve the ability to discover and solve problems. The completed township (street) fire protection workstations have all been put into front-line inspection, giving full play to the role of grassroots terminals and improving the quality and efficiency of inspections.
(3) Acceptance assessment (before the end of March 2024). All regional organizations shall conduct acceptance and evaluation of the large-scale rectification action, summarize the results, and report the problems. If the acceptance is unqualified, it is necessary to carry out key supervision and supervision, and instruct the re-organization and development of a large-scale rectification action to eliminate trouble.
Sixth, the work requirements
(1) Strengthen organizational leadership. All regions, relevant departments and units should resolutely implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions, stand at the height of overall development and security, improve their political position, and take the large-scale rectification action as the current political task of maintaining social stability, strengthen organizational leadership, command and scheduling, tighten and consolidate responsibilities, take effective measures, earnestly investigate risks and hidden dangers, pay close attention to the quality and efficiency of the large-scale rectification work, resolutely curb the frequent recurrence of various fire accidents, and ensure the safety of people's lives and property and the overall stability of society.
(2) Strengthen overall planning. All regions, relevant departments and units should effectively combine and synchronize key tasks such as the three-year action of fire safety and the root cause of fire safety, the fire safety work of the Spring Festival, and the security work of the National People's Congress and the National People's Congress to strengthen system governance, comprehensive management, source management, and governance in accordance with the law, and immediately organize and carry out a comprehensive safety risk assessment, identify the key areas, sensitive places, and weak links where hidden dangers are concentrated, and take precise and effective measures to tackle tough problems and make every effort to maintain the region. The fire safety situation in this industry is stable.
(3) Strengthen oversight and accountability. All regions and relevant departments should incorporate the large-scale rectification action into the daily supervision and inspection content, and strengthen process supervision and accountability. Units and individuals who have violated the law must be strictly investigated and dealt with according to law, and those suspected of committing crimes must be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law. Where it is found that action is slow, that work is perfunctory, that problems cannot be found, or that problems are not dealt with, they should be circulated for criticism, supervised and rectified, and serious problems should be seriously held accountable. During the period of the large-scale rectification action, if a fire accident occurs with mass deaths and injuries, the responsibility back-check mechanism shall be activated in accordance with the procedures, and the relevant personnel shall be seriously held accountable in accordance with regulations, discipline and law.
Local safety committees should coordinate and promote the large-scale rectification action to eliminate trouble, and the specific fire and rescue corps shall take the lead in organizing and implementing it, and the relevant situation shall be reported to the Office of the State Council Safety Committee in a timely manner. The Office of the Security Committee of the State Council will report on the work of all localities and relevant departments and units in a timely manner.
Office of the Security Committee of the State Council
January 26, 2024
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