Source: People's Daily - Heilongjiang Channel Original draft
Harbin, November 6 (People's Daily Online) In response to the blizzard warning issued by the Heilongjiang Meteorological Observatory, the Heilongjiang Provincial Department of Transportation recently issued to all cities (prefectures) and industry enterprises the "Emergency Notice on Doing a Good Job in The Work Related to Safety Production in the Near Future and Winter", the "Emergency Notice on Strengthening the Work of Snow Removal and Protection in Response to Bad Weather", the "Emergency Notice on Effectively Strengthening the Work of Safe Production in the Road Transport Industry in Rainy and Snowy Weather", and other notices, and arranged for all units in various places to take active and effective measures. Go all out to grasp the implementation of various safety prevention responsibilities and measures.
In terms of snow removal and maintenance, the Heilongjiang Provincial Department of Transportation requires that all localities and departments should attach great importance to the impact that this large-scale snowfall may bring, and the main leaders should personally grasp it, and the leaders in charge should grasp it specifically, decompose the tasks, consolidate the responsibilities, quickly start the provincial, municipal, and county highway traffic emergency organization system, strengthen the emergency force, make careful arrangements, and effectively improve the ability of the transportation system to respond to emergencies. It is necessary to strengthen inspections and ensure that they are rushed through. All localities and departments should guide the custody units under their jurisdiction to do a good job of highway inspection and inspection work in advance, formulate a work plan for highway maintenance and rushing through in advance, take targeted countermeasures, scientifically allocate emergency teams, and do a good job in advance of the inspection and commissioning of large equipment such as snow removal vehicles, transport vehicles, and graders. Strengthen operation monitoring and strengthen service guarantees. Further strengthen the monitoring of the operation status of the road network, if a disaster occurs, it is necessary to strengthen the dispatch of the road network, timely release the detour route, immediately launch an emergency plan, under the leadership of the local government organization, raise the necessary food, drinking water, fuel, cold and warm materials, mobilize the masses and social forces along the route to participate in the rescue, minimize the damage caused by the disaster, and ensure the safety of the lives of the trapped people.
In terms of strengthening road transport safety supervision, all localities and units are required to supervise and urge road transport enterprises to implement the main responsibility, strengthen vehicle inspection and maintenance, strengthen the dynamic supervision of key operating vehicles of "two passengers and one danger", strengthen road transport driver safety education and training on emergency handling capabilities on ice and snow road surfaces, strengthen the source control of "two passengers and one danger", general goods, urban buses, and rental vehicles, strictly implement the provisions of "three no-entry stations, six exits" of passenger stations, and strictly prevent extreme weather from risk-related departures and risk-related operations. Further strengthen the supervision of rural three or four types of passenger lines, strictly implement the system of prohibiting the passage of passenger vehicles at night on mountain roads below the third level that do not meet the conditions for safe passage, transport enterprises should conduct on-site inspection of the running lines after snow, and all localities should organize industry safety management personnel to enter enterprises in key areas of the industry to inspect and supervise, and resolutely put an end to vehicle risk-related operations and ensure safety for those who do not have the conditions for starting. Establish a joint command mechanism for severe weather emergency and a joint disposal mechanism for road police. All localities and units should, on the basis of the linkage mechanism with public security, meteorological and emergency response departments, and in light of actual conditions, improve all kinds of emergency response plans, and properly handle and respond to emergencies. In case of blizzard weather, timely launch the corresponding level of emergency response plan, strengthen emergency response preparations, implement the 24-hour duty system, and ensure that all kinds of road transport safety production early warning information is released in a timely and accurate manner. Strengthen inspection supervision. All localities and units should earnestly strengthen safety management during snowfall, organize forces to strengthen the inspection and supervision of key links and parts of the source such as transport enterprises, passenger and freight yards, and ensure that various safety responsibilities, systems, and measures are in place.
In terms of strengthening safety supervision in the field of engineering construction, strengthen the investigation of hidden dangers in projects under construction and "two districts and three fields", implement rectification measures, do a good job in advance of temporary facilities, machinery and equipment, construction sites and other risk reinforcements, strengthen the safety management of construction sites, and make every effort to do a good job in "three defenses". Strengthen the management of hidden dangers in the construction operations of highway and water transport projects, carry out special rectification of construction operations at high places and high slopes, and severely crack down on behaviors that exceed the "red line of project quality and safety".
In terms of strengthening emergency duty, all localities and units are required to earnestly strengthen duty and emergency duty work, strictly implement the post responsibility system and the 24-hour duty system of leaders leading shifts and key posts, strictly implement the information reporting system, quickly dispose of and report blocking information at the first time, timely release early warning information on highway travel, and guide the public to reasonably arrange travel routes through various carriers such as broadcasting and networks. Where a road traffic accident occurs, the information shall be reported in a timely and accurate manner in accordance with the prescribed time limit, and various emergencies shall be handled in a timely and efficient manner.
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