Special operations are a little unfamiliar to many people, but they are actually closely related to our safety production. For example, electrical work, welding and thermal cutting, work at height, refrigeration and air conditioning work, coal mine safety work, etc. are all special operations. Due to the professionalism and danger of these jobs, the Work Safety Law specifically stipulates that the special operation personnel of production and business operation units must be trained in special safety operations in accordance with relevant national regulations and obtain corresponding qualifications before they can take up their posts. However, driven by profits, chaos such as the production and sale of counterfeit special operation certificates has also occurred frequently.
At the beginning of 2023, multiple departments such as emergency management in Xicheng District, Beijing, conducted joint law enforcement inspections on construction sites. The authenticity of the special operation certificate held by the special operation personnel and whether the special operation certificate is within the validity period are mainly checked. In the process, law enforcement officers discovered a strange thing.
Yang Weiguo, Captain of the Third Division of the Emergency Management Comprehensive Law Enforcement Brigade of Xicheng District, Beijing: At that time, one of them, Bai Moumou, was found, and his special operation certificate could not be found on the official website of the Ministry of Emergency Response or the national safety production examination platform and public account platform of the mobile phone, and there was no information. The strange thing is that when we scanned this document with WeChat, a website interface that is very similar to the official website of the Ministry of Emergency Management pops up.
Bai Moumou holds a special operation certificate for welding and thermal cutting. When law enforcement officers log in to the "National Safety Production Examination" platform and scan the QR code of Bai's certificate, it shows "The certificate file number is incorrect, please contact the issuing authority for verification". However, through the WeChat "Scan" function, the "page" query that popped up by scanning the QR code of the certificate showed that Bai Moumou had the qualification of "welding and thermal cutting operations", and the certificate was within the validity period. At first glance, the "page" looks almost exactly like the official website page.
Liu Zhenyuan, Deputy Procurator General of the Beijing Railway Transport Procuratorate: The comparison between the real official website and the fake, the first thing you can see is the URL, the real official website is .gov.cn, and at the same time, there will be a party and government organ certification in front of the search engine.
The law enforcement officers also verified with the issuing authority printed on the certificate, and finally confirmed that the special operation certificate held by Bai Moumou was a forged certificate.
Through these clues, law enforcement officers judged that the false certificate held by Bai Moumou was not an isolated case. After the law enforcement officers imposed an administrative punishment on Bai, they immediately asked the procuratorate to intervene in the case.
The special operation certificate is related to safe production and human life, and is also regarded as the "safety certificate" of construction operations. So, where do these fake "security certificates" come from? What links do this gray and black industry chain include?
Shi Liang, Deputy Director of the Seventh Procuratorate Department of the People's Procuratorate of Xicheng District, Beijing: This criminal gang has formed a systematic characteristic, with a clear division of labor among the upstream, midstream, and bottom personnel. The upstream is responsible for setting up fake websites, collecting information on counterfeiting needs, and handing over the documents of the entities to the midstream criminals.
According to reports, the criminal suspect Sun Moumou is the most upstream, he first spent money to hire people to make fake websites, and then developed a number of agents, agents through online social software, online merchants and offline methods, peddling fake websites, looking for and collecting people who spent money to buy fake special operation certificates. The collected information was summarized to Sun Moumou, who sent instructions to the person who was specifically responsible for making fake documents. The fake certificate is sent to the corresponding downline agent, and finally to the purchaser.
The person who makes the fake certificate only needs to fill in the identity information of the purchaser on the background management page of the fake website, and the fake special operation qualification certificate will be automatically generated, and the QR code on the certificate will be opened, and the name of the issuing authority, the validity period, and the type of work information on the fake certificate are readily available.
According to the background data of the fake website set up by the criminal gang, more than 500,000 people have followed the website, and more than 19,000 people have purchased fake special operation certificates, and the construction types cover 39 high-risk operations such as electrical welding, aerial work, lifting, and signaling.
In May 2023, the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau's case-handling police went to several provinces to arrest more than a dozen suspects who made fake websites.
In the process of handling cases, the Beijing Municipal Procuratorate has adopted classification and grading to crack down on the downstream licensees, midstream intermediary trading personnel, and upstream sources of counterfeiting.
At present, there are more than 3,000 construction sites registered in Beijing, and these construction sites are widely distributed and the mobility of construction personnel is strong. Information interconnection of the certificate verification platform of the housing and construction department.
After data comparison, more than 300 suspected fake certificate holders were finally found in Beijing, and multiple departments jointly enforced the law, quickly locked the construction site where these people were located, carried out rectification, and eliminated potential safety hazards from the source. At the same time, the relevant departments have launched a cleanup of online information and fake websites.
Holding a certificate for special operations is a guarantee for life, the interests of enterprises and the public, and it is also to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests. The special operation environment is complex and risky, and the operators must undergo training and obtain professional qualification certificates in accordance with the relevant provisions of the "Work Safety Law" before they can be employed. It is required that special operations are certified to work, enterprises have safety production standards, and the law has relevant hard regulations, but the production, sale and use of counterfeit special operation certificates are still repeatedly prohibited. Why are some people willing to take the risk of applying for false certificates? Why are the "guarantee certificates" for safe production being lost layer by layer?
The person in charge of a construction site: The salary of special operations is relatively high, such as the salary of electric welders should be 500 yuan to 600 yuan a day. Because of the heavy manual labor, the scaffolding worker is generally more than 600 yuan a day, which is very different from ordinary workers, and the salary of ordinary workers is 200 to 300 yuan a day.
The "gold content" of the special operation certificate is high, and with the operation certificate, the salary will be greatly improved, which makes many people who do not have the conditions and cannot pass the exam are willing to take the risk of buying fake certificates.
Wu Junrong, deputy director of the Law Enforcement Industry and Trade Bureau of the Ministry of Emergency Management: The first hazard is that the risk of accidents is relatively high, these false witnesses lack the knowledge and corresponding safety skills that should be known and should know, and they cannot identify the risks and hidden dangers around them, and they cannot rectify the risks and hidden dangers around them.
In recent years, accidents caused by illegal operations have occurred from time to time because employees hold special operation certificates, fake certificates or have not obtained certificates.
On November 21, 2022, a major fire broke out in the factory of Kaixinda Trading Co., Ltd. in Anyang City, Henan Province.
Wu Junrong, Deputy Director of the Law Enforcement Industry and Trade Bureau of the Ministry of Emergency Management: The cause of this accident is that the relevant personnel of Kaixinda Company have repeatedly violated laws and regulations in welding operations without obtaining a special operation certificate, which eventually led to the accident.
On April 17, 2023, a major fire accident occurred in Zhejiang Weijiali Industry and Trade Co., Ltd.
Wu Junrong, Deputy Director of the Law Enforcement Industry and Trade Bureau of the Ministry of Emergency Management: After investigation, the company hired unlicensed personnel to carry out illegal welding operations, which ignited the surrounding paint, and finally led to the accident.
In addition to the phenomenon of forging special operation certificates, there is also a kind of operation certificate that is real, but the certificate holder has not passed strict training, nor does he have the corresponding operation skills or safety knowledge, this phenomenon is called "fake real certificate".
Wu Junrong, deputy director of the Law Enforcement Industry and Trade Bureau of the Ministry of Emergency Management: The first category is "real and fake certificates", which mainly refer to fake documents forged by lawbreakers, which cannot be found on the government's inquiry website;
The so-called "false evidence" is mainly because there are still some outstanding problems in the current safety technical training and assessment of special operation personnel. For example, some institutions falsely advertise that special operation certificates have been covered or exempted; some training institutions do not follow the syllabus in teaching and have falsified training; some examination institutions (including examination centers) do not strictly invigilate examinations, do not distinguish between examinations and training, and connive, participate, or even organize candidates to cheat; and some training and examination institutions collude with each other to sell certificates, resulting in "fake real certificates", that is, special operation certificates obtained in the training and examination links, or even without participating in training and examinations, which are circulated in the market.
Wu Junrong, deputy director of the Law Enforcement Industry and Trade Bureau of the Ministry of Emergency Management: In recent years, the emergency management department, together with relevant departments, has carried out a special rectification of "safety production training through the motions", and we have rectified a number of unqualified safety production training institutions, examination institutions and examination centers.
In order to resolutely curb the chaos of obtaining special operation certificates, starting from September 2021, the Ministry of Emergency Management and the Ministry of Public Security have jointly launched a nationwide special operation to crack down on the production and sale of counterfeit safety production certificates by fake government websites.
In 2022, Jiuquan City, Gansu Province, destroyed a criminal gang that forged and sold fake certificates, arrested 20 criminal suspects, and seized more than 11,000 fake certificates.
Chongqing Municipality has arrested a criminal gang that forged and sold fake certificates, arrested 72 criminal suspects, and seized more than 50,000 pieces of fake certificate information.
In 2021, Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province, arrested a criminal gang that forged and sold fake certificates, arrested 40 criminal suspects, and seized more than 40,000 fake certificates.
At the same time, the relevant departments have carried out special rectification of training institutions and examination sites for special operation certificates. 4,171 law enforcement inspection and training institutions in various localities were fake, 315 were eliminated and cleared, 299 were suspended for rectification, and 2,445 were ordered to be rectified; 2,213 examination institutions were inspected, 212 examination centers were cancelled, 153 were suspended for rectification, and 997 were ordered to rectify.
The special operation certificate, commonly known as the safety certificate, is not only related to the safety of workers' lives and property, but also related to public safety. The repeated safety production accidents have repeatedly warned us that special operations must be certified to work and must be operated in a standardized manner, so that accidents can be avoided to the greatest extent. Therefore, on the one hand, it is necessary to strengthen the supervision of training, examinations and other links, and at the same time, all relevant departments should also strengthen the verification of special operation personnel. At the same time, personnel who want to engage in special operations should not have a fluke mentality, special operations, special industries, special locations, training and certification according to regulations, which is responsible for everyone including themselves. After all, safe production is greater than the sky.
Source: CCTV news client
Process Editor: U032