Businesses proactively prevent and fight fires

Friday, May 19, 2023 | 08:31:06

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Recognizing the significance and importance of fire prevention, fire fighting (PCCC) and rescue (CNCH) in production and business activities, recently, many enterprises in the province have proactively developed and synchronously deployed proactive prevention measures, in order to minimize the damage caused by fire and explosion.

Officers of the Fire Prevention, Fire Fighting and Rescue Police Department, Provincial Police, inspected fire safety at Hualida Thai Binh Garment Company Limited.

Thai Binh Thermal Power Company under Vietnam Electricity Group is headquartered in My Loc commune (Thai Thuy) with the characteristics of production and business with many potential risks of fire and explosion, so the work of ensuring fire safety and rescue is especially important to the unit.

Mr. Ho Minh Khanh, Head of the Company's Safety and Environment Department, said: With the spirit of "Production must be safe, safe for production", 100% of the Company's officers and employees voluntarily comply with and strictly implement the regulations on ensuring fire safety and rescue as prescribed. In addition to equipping a 24/7 camera surveillance system for equipment and areas at risk of fire and explosion, the Company has focused on investing in quality fire safety and rescue equipment and vehicles with specialized fire trucks, pumps, cylinders, fire nozzles, fixed fire extinguishing systems at production stations and the entire area...

Hualida Thai Binh Garment Company Limited (Phuc Khanh Industrial Park, Thai Binh City) is a 100% foreign-owned garment enterprise with a scale of 3,400 workers, specializing in manufacturing and trading denim fashion products exported to European and North American markets. In order to produce and trade effectively, the Company always pays attention to implementing fire safety conditions right from the facility.

Mr. Lam Chanh Dong, the Company's Human Resources Administration Director, said: As a garment unit that employs a lot of labor, produces and trades flammable goods, uses a lot of machinery and equipment, consumes a lot of electricity... so since 2007 (the time of starting operations), the Company has actively coordinated with the authorities to focus on equipping fire prevention and fighting equipment to ensure safe production. The mobile fire prevention and fighting team with over 30 members is the core in fire prevention and fighting and rescue activities, each department and workshop has a fire prevention and fighting team or has someone participating in the fire prevention and fighting team, each shift has a permanent fire fighting force.

In the province, there are currently 28,759 production and business establishments and 46 industrial park and industrial cluster infrastructures under the management of fire prevention and fighting according to decentralization. In recent years, the authorities have implemented many synchronous measures to improve fire prevention and fighting safety and rescue work in enterprises.

Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Quoc Tuan, Deputy Head of the Fire Prevention Team, Fire Prevention and Rescue Police Department, Provincial Police said: In the face of the fact that many enterprises and production and business establishments in the area operate in a number of fields that always have a high risk of fire and explosion, the Fire Prevention and Rescue Police force has deployed and strictly implemented documents and plans on professional guidance; at the same time, actively coordinated to implement the project "Innovation, improving the effectiveness of propaganda, dissemination, education of laws and knowledge and skills on fire prevention and rescue to meet the requirements of the new situation" of the Ministry of Public Security. In particular, during the month of occupational safety and hygiene and fire and explosion prevention and fighting, propaganda and dissemination of knowledge on ensuring fire prevention and rescue safety for employees in enterprises are focused on. Through nearly 100 typical self-management models of fire prevention and fighting in terms of both human resources and equipment investment in enterprises, the combined strength of all levels, sectors, agencies and enterprises participating in fire prevention and fighting work has been mobilized, contributing to reducing fire and explosion accidents and improving production and business efficiency of enterprises.