en.Wedoany.com Reported - The Safety Committee Office of Guangxi Autonomous Region recently issued the "Special Rectification Work Plan for Hidden Workfaces in Coal Mines Across the Region," launching a comprehensive inspection of coal mining and excavation operations in the region. This aims to standardize mining and excavation management, eliminate hidden workfaces and the use of "real" and "fake" dual sets of drawings for fraud and deliberate evasion of supervision, eradicate major hazards at the source, severely crack down on illegal production and construction activities involving deliberately concealed mining and excavation sites, prevent and resolve systemic safety risks, and firmly uphold the red line and bottom line of coal mine safety development.

According to the "Notice," the key targets of this special rectification are all coal mines in the region that are in normal production, under construction, or have production conditions but are shut down or suspended, particularly those with complex systems, unreasonable mining and excavation layouts, or tight mining and excavation succession. The rectification focuses on 10 categories of issues: whether coal mines have exceeded boundaries or layers and have hidden workfaces (hidden projects); whether they use coal mining techniques prohibited by the state; whether the layout of mining and excavation workfaces complies with technical standards such as the "Coal Mine Safety Regulations"; whether the production levels, mining (panel) areas, and coal mining workfaces have corresponding designs and are constructed according to those designs; whether construction and technological transformation coal mines operate according to approved designs; whether mining and excavation operation plans are prepared and executed; whether drawings such as mining and excavation plans, ventilation system diagrams, and surface-underground comparison maps are authentic and reliable; whether false sealing walls exist; whether the personnel position monitoring system operates normally, and whether there are behaviors of personnel entering the mine without positioning cards or concealing the number of underground workers. Cities need to focus on checking whether hidden workfaces have been thoroughly investigated and cleared, whether all have been sealed with targeted measures, whether penalties for coal mines where hidden workfaces are found are sufficient, whether actual controllers, ultimate beneficiaries, and mine management who commit serious violations have been severely punished, how many individuals have been held criminally liable, and whether administrative penalties have been simply substituted for criminal penalties.

The special rectification runs from the date of issuance of the plan until the end of the year, advancing in three phases: from the issuance date to the end of June is the enterprise self-inspection and self-correction phase; from the issuance date to the end of November is the inspection phase at the autonomous region, city, and county (city, district) levels; December is the spot-check phase by relevant autonomous region departments.

The "Notice" clarifies the division of responsibilities for relevant departments at all levels. Emergency management departments at all levels need to organize expert teams for full-coverage inspections in conjunction with daily supervision and law enforcement plans, monitor coal mine workforce numbers, and promptly verify and handle any anomalies. Power grid companies (power supply departments) at all levels need to monitor coal mine electricity consumption in real-time. Development and reform (energy) departments at all levels need to monitor coal mine air output. Natural resources departments at all levels need to monitor coal mine coal output. Public security departments at all levels need to monitor the consumption of explosives in coal mines.

The "Notice" requires relevant departments at all levels to thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on safety production, deeply understand the significance of the special rectification, learn lessons from accidents, and resolutely prevent and resolve major safety risks in coal mines. Typical cases involving hidden workfaces will be publicly exposed to maintain a high-pressure stance of strict investigation and severe punishment. At the same time, coal mines that voluntarily report hidden workfaces will be given lighter, reduced, or exempted administrative penalties according to law. For discovered hidden workfaces, coal mining enterprises are required to seal them in appropriate locations and install video surveillance for key monitoring. The principal responsible persons of coal mining enterprises (including legal representatives and actual controllers), as the primary responsible persons for this special rectification in their enterprises, need to organize the formulation and implementation of work measures, ensure the necessary funds, personnel, and measures, and ensure the special rectification achieves tangible results.

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