Southeast Asia Information Port News (www.dnyxxg.com) Recently, the State Council Safety Committee issued a notice deploying a campaign to investigate and rectify major fire risks and hidden dangers in high-rise buildings. The campaign focuses on high-rise civil buildings with inhabited areas (including residential buildings and public buildings such as offices, medical facilities, and commercial buildings), particularly those undergoing exterior wall renovations or partial interior decoration. The aim is to comprehensively strengthen fire safety management in high-rise buildings and effectively protect the lives and property of the people.
This investigation and rectification campaign emphasizes four aspects:
First, high-rise civil buildings undergoing exterior wall renovations. The focus is on investigating and rectifying the use of flammable or combustible materials in newly installed exterior wall insulation systems; the use of prohibited materials, processes, and equipment such as bamboo (wood) scaffolding and non-flame-retardant dense mesh safety nets; and unauthorized construction without following basic construction procedures.
Second, high-rise civil buildings undergoing interior decoration renovations. The key areas of investigation and rectification include: 1) Small-scale projects involving hot work below the permitted limit that are not registered as required; 2) Failure to comply with safety management regulations during facility and equipment repair and dismantling; 3) Unauthorized use of flammable materials for decoration and renovation, and flammable items; 4) Hot work being carried out in densely populated areas during business hours.
2) Fire protection facilities and equipment in high-rise civil buildings. The key areas of investigation and rectification include: indoor and outdoor fire hydrant systems and automatic sprinkler systems lacking water or with insufficient pressure; 3) Inoperable automatic fire alarm systems and mechanical smoke extraction systems; 4) Fireproof roller shutters, fire doors, and other fire-resistant partitions failing to close properly or being damaged.
3) Daily fire safety management of high-rise civil buildings. The key areas of investigation and rectification include: 1) Failure to promptly remove flammable debris from the connection between the building facade and auxiliary buildings such as podiums; 2) Blocked, obstructed, or occupied fire truck access routes, evacuation routes, and safety exits; 3) Electric bicycles being allowed into buildings and being charged illegally; 4) Exposed and aging electrical wiring within buildings; 5) Damaged, cracked, or detached protective layers of existing exterior wall insulation systems that have not been repaired in a timely manner. The notice requires all regions to organize relevant enterprises and units to conduct comprehensive self-inspections focusing on key tasks, while relevant departments conduct simultaneous spot checks to resolutely prevent the inspection from becoming a mere formality. Any safety hazards discovered must be rectified immediately. For hazards that cannot be rectified immediately due to technical difficulties or other objective reasons, effective control measures must be taken and rectification must be completed within a specified timeframe. Major accident hazards will be subject to special supervision. Strict supervision and enforcement will be enforced against serious violations discovered during inspections, and those who fail to take timely measures to eliminate major accident hazards will be held accountable. Public awareness campaigns should be continuously strengthened, the supporting role of third-party service agencies should be leveraged, and a sound reward mechanism for public reporting should be established to encourage the public and enterprise employees to report safety risks and hazards in their vicinity.
The notice emphasizes that all regions must raise their political awareness, strengthen their sense of responsibility, coordinate development and safety, and treat the investigation and rectification of major fire risks and hazards in high-rise buildings as an important task, making concerted efforts to solidly deploy and promote it. We must strengthen organizational leadership, make special arrangements based on the actual conditions of the region, refine the division of tasks, improve and perfect the mechanism, strengthen the joint efforts of all parties, and organically combine it with the already deployed "one-stop" whole-chain rectification of electric bicycles, building insulation materials, hot work in densely populated places, and urban gas, strengthen supervision and inspection, and ensure that effective results are achieved.
