Wedoany.com Report on Mar 11th, Recently, the Shandong Provincial Energy Bureau of China and the Shandong Bureau of the National Mine Safety Administration jointly issued the "Shandong Coal Mine Major Safety Risk Assessment and Control Measures." This initiative aims to establish a normalized, precise, and full-chain coal mine major safety risk prevention and control system from an institutional level. It further consolidates the responsibilities of all parties, strengthens the production safety defense line for coal mines in Shandong, and supports the high-quality development of the coal industry with a high level of safety. 
The introduction of the "Measures" is an important step for Shandong based on the actual situation of coal mine production safety and aligned with national work requirements for production safety. It also represents a concrete practice by Shandong Province in promoting the transformation of the safety governance model towards prevention in advance. As 2026 marks the beginning year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," Shandong focuses on building a pre-incident prevention mechanism in the field of coal mine production safety. This not only optimizes and upgrades previous coal mine safety risk prevention and control work but also sets new standards and clarifies new requirements for coal mine production safety work in Shandong Province.
The "Measures" clarify that coal mine enterprises are the responsible entities for safety risk control. They need to establish a responsibility system with the principal responsible person as the first-in-command and build a normalized risk identification mechanism featuring "comprehensive annual identification, quarterly specialized assessment, and monthly rolling analysis." Regarding the scope of risk assessment, the "Measures" achieve full-dimensional coverage. It not only focuses on core links such as production layout continuity and major production systems but also includes important sites like mining faces with rockburst or water hazard threats, key links such as mining through geological structural zones and ventilation system adjustments, hazardous operations like unsealing sealed areas and gas drainage, as well as critical periods such as flood seasons, low temperatures, rain, snow, and freezing conditions into the identification and assessment scope, leaving no hiding place for safety risks.
The "Measures" establish a refined control model of "one mine, one handbook; one mine, one strategy" and build a three-level linkage mechanism of "enterprise self-inspection, municipal consultation, and provincial assessment." The routine safety supervision departments and inspection law enforcement offices for coal mines analyze risk changes monthly and hold joint consultations with enterprises quarterly. The Shandong Provincial Energy Bureau and the Shandong Bureau of the National Mine Safety Administration conduct provincial-level consultations quarterly, layer by layer consolidating risk control responsibilities. Simultaneously, full-process closed-loop management requirements are formulated. Supervision and inspection departments will incorporate risk identification and control into key spot-check areas, intensify law enforcement for enterprises with inadequate control, impose administrative penalties according to laws and regulations on those failing to carry out work as required, and interview the principal responsible persons of enterprises in serious cases, using rigid constraints to compel responsibility fulfillment.
The introduction of these "Measures" further improves the coal mine production safety risk prevention and control system in Shandong, achieving a shift from "post-incident handling" to "pre-incident prevention and in-process control." It delineates safety red lines for coal mine enterprises and provides a legal basis for supervision departments. In the next step, the Shandong Provincial Energy Bureau and the Shandong Bureau of the National Mine Safety Administration will supervise and ensure the implementation of the "Measures," promote the comprehensive fulfillment of risk control primary responsibility by coal mine enterprises in Shandong Province, continuously enhance the capacity for preventing and controlling major safety risks in coal mines, effectively prevent production safety accidents, and solidify the foundation of production safety for building a modern and strong province in the new era, truly achieving high-quality development safeguarded by a high level of safety.
