How can a major Japanese PX factory have no major accidents in 50 years

Tokyo and Yokohama have countless residential houses, office buildings and various commercial facilities.

Walk out of Kawasaki Light Rail Station and take a taxi.

The Kawasaki Plant of Japan’s most important mining and petroleum company, "Jikun Nissan Energy Co.

After equipping the first set of chemical equipment "acetone manufacturing device" in 1957, ethylene, PX and other manufacturing equipment have been constructed successively.

A factory open to elementary and middle school students

Before coming to Beijing, General Manager Toru Sasaki of JX Nippon Mine Nippon Stone (Beijing) Enterprise Management Co.

In the impression of ordinary Chinese, chemical plants are firstly countless pipes, then all kinds of smoke that are constantly spitting out into the sky, and secondly, all kinds of unclear smells.

General Manager Sasaki introduced to reporters that the company’s Kawasaki factory annually organizes various activities with neighborhood committees, elementary and middle school students, and students’ parents in 10 nearby streets, including fishing conventions, goldfish fishing competitions with paper spoons, and crabs in wooden basins.

　　The Kawasaki factory is close to the sea, and the surrounding residents cannot eat the fish caught here.

　　The reporter interviewed in Kawasaki, knowing that this is the place where Japan's heavy chemical industry companies are most concentrated.

　　A conscientious company will attach importance to environmental protection.

　　The secret of safety: put the system into practice

　　An accident is inevitable in the chemical plant.

　　No chemical plant dared to make a guarantee, saying that it would never have an accident.

　　"Ensuring safety is the most basic part of our company's operations.
To achieve production safety is our responsibility to the local society.
" Sasaki said.

　　To strengthen the safety awareness of employees and ensure the safety of daily production requires continuous efforts to improve equipment management and daily operation management technology.
The factory not only carefully manages the PX production equipment to ensure that it is foolproof, but also closely monitors other equipment close to the PX production line to prevent accidents on other pipelines from causing huge losses to the chemical plant as a whole.

　　Small accidents continue to occur, which will inevitably lead to major accidents.
Eliminating all kinds of work-related injuries in daily production is what JX Kawasaki Plant emphasizes every day.
Since 2008, the accident rate of the Kawasaki plant has been below the average accident rate of the chemical industry.
Judging from the chart provided by the company, this ratio is the number of work-related casualties ÷ total working hours × 1 million.
The chemical industry in Japan is less than 2, while JX Corporation remains at less than 1.

　　"On September 12, 2011, an accident occurred in our factory.
An employee of a partner company working in our factory was injured while operating an electric saw.
This allowed us to maintain a record of 10.
93 million hours without accidents.
Forced to stop.
" Sasaki said regretfully.

　　No matter how precise safety management is, there will be omissions.
In addition, Japan is a country threatened by earthquakes and tsunamis.
Once an accident occurs, how can we ensure that the accident is not expanded and the loss of the accident as much as possible? In this regard, daily education and training are very important.
important.
Past experience and lessons, lessons learned by other companies, are indispensable content for companies to conduct safety education and training.
In Japan, it is basically impossible to imagine an accident that occurred two years ago, and it will happen again two years later.
It is impossible for the second accident to follow one after another before the first accident has been dealt with.

　　To prevent daily minor accidents, rely on risk assessment.
This includes regular evaluation of manufacturing, quality, public works, safety, etc.
, to find a way to solve the problem, to ensure that there are no problems with the equipment, and the problems can be solved immediately.

　　At the Kawasaki Plant of JX Company, there is a special position: "Safety Engineer".
This is a professional engineer responsible for improving the labor safety and operational safety of the whole factory.
He has the responsibilities of managing risks, revising management regulations, and engaging in equipment diagnosis.

　　The accident database can play a huge role in the company's crisis management.
"In the accident database of our Kawasaki plant, there are 4,800 disaster cases and 1,700 environmental information.
" Sasaki told reporters.
Of course, this is not JX's own accident, but various accidents in the industry, and in Japan and abroad collected by the company.
Careful study of the occurrence and handling of accidents can play an important role in solving unexpected accidents.

　　"Chemical plants need to introduce new products, and the entire production process must have a lot of communication with government agencies and nearby residents.
Only when information is open and transparent, and communication is adequate, can chemical plants survive in one place for a long time.
" Mitsubishi Chemical Taku Segawa, general representative of the group in China, told the author.

　　In Japan, we can't find the golden rule of preventing accidents like Skynet.
What we can see is the implementation of existing systems by chemical companies.
It is an absolutely meticulous implementation process, and there is no room for omissions.
It is not only in an equipment system, but also in a factory, but also in the content that is being promoted in the entire industrial zone of Kawasaki.
With this kind of safety approach, chemical companies can promote their own production normally in places where there are 1.
46 million people living nearby, and the surrounding residents are not at all shocked.
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