О мерах по обеспечению безопасных условий труда на промышленных предприятиях
Today, at a Government meeting, the Minister for Emergency Situations, Yuri Ilyin, made a report on measures to ensure safe working conditions at industrial enterprises.
According to Yuri Ilyin, the Ministry exercises state supervision over 9,157 industrial enterprises, including more than 230,000 hazardous production facilities (underground mines and coal mines, quarries and open-pit mines, metallurgical, chemical and oil refineries, magistrial pipelines, gas supply systems, etc.). Supervision is carried out by conducting inspections, which is aimed at preventing the harmful effects of hazardous production factors on personnel and the public, by observing the safety requirements of hazardous production facilities and organizations operating dangerous technical devices.
For 5 months of 2021, 418 special inspections and 271 unscheduled inspections were carried out.
According to the results of the inspections, 12,777 violations of industrial safety requirements were revealed, 505 administrative fines were imposed in the amount of more than 70 million tenge. 224 facilities were suspended for gross violations of industrial safety requirements that pose a threat to human life and health.
Measures to reduce the requirements for business and the weakening of state regulation in the field of safety, created the prerequisites for a decrease in the level of industrial discipline in the industry and, as a result, an increase in accidents and related injuries.
In recent years, there has been a tendency for accidents to increase by an average of 15% at hazardous production facilities.
The analysis shows that the risk of man-made accidents at work remains at a high level.
This year, 11 accidents and 146 incidents were registered at hazardous production facilities in the country. As a result of the accidents, 5 people were injured and one person was killed.
The main causes of accidents at hazardous production facilities are:
- committed violations of industrial safety requirements, in terms of conducting work with deviation from design decisions;
- high moral and physical wear of the operated equipment;
- low production and labor discipline of workers.
In order to reduce the permissible violations of industrial safety requirements, following the results of inspections, inspectors take prompt response measures, initiate cases of administrative offenses, draw up regulations, and conduct accident investigations.
In order to solve the existing issues regarding the gradual decommissioning of obsolete, morally and physically worn-out equipment, together with the supervised enterprises, a Consolidated Plan for the technical Re-equipment of a hazardous production facility is developed annually, within the framework of which 2,196 equipment (2,070 technical devices and 126 technological lines) is planned to be replaced for the current year.
In order to improve production and labor discipline, the inspectors conduct explanatory work.
Also, work is being carried out to improve the legislation in the field of industrial safety.
On April 1 of this year, the Law "On Amendments and Additions to Industrial Safety" was adopted, within the framework of which work is being carried out to approve 41 regulatory legal acts, the implementation of which will improve the production and labor discipline of workers at hazardous production facilities, increase the level of protection of citizens from the harmful effects of hazardous production factors and reduce the likelihood of harm to third parties as a result of an accident.
In general, the implementation of the set goals and objectives will ensure a consistent reduction in the risk of accidents at industrial facilities, improve the methods of state regulation, create legal and organizational conditions for the development of safety infrastructure.
Press Service of the
Ministry of Emergency Situations
of the Republic of Kazakhstan