On August 20, the Ministry of Emergency Management held a special press conference to interpret the State Council Security Committee's Opinions on Promoting the Establishment and Improvement of the Reward Mechanism for Internal Reporting of Accident Hidden Dangers in Production and Business Units (hereinafter referred to as "Opinions"). Li Haowen, Director of the Survey and Statistics Department of the Ministry of
Emergency Management, introduced at the meeting that by the end of June 2025, 14 key industries, including coal mines, non-coal mines, dangerous chemicals, fireworks and firecrackers, construction, transportation, gas, industry and trade, and civil explosives, will be developed in the future. It also includes production and business units in some subdivisions, and it is necessary to establish and implement an incentive mechanism for internal reporting of potential accident hazards.
The Opinion clarifies the key contents of internal reports, the workflow of verification and processing, the source of incentive funds and safeguards, and proposes that by the end of 2025, production and business units will establish and implement an incentive mechanism for internal reporting of potential accidents. Li Gang, deputy director of the dispatching center of the Ministry of
Emergency Management, introduced that the Opinion encouraged employees of production and business units to focus on reporting the following situations and put forward reasonable suggestions for rectification.
One is the unsafe behavior of people. Including employees' violation of safety rules and regulations, failure to implement safety production instructions, incorrect use of personal labor protection articles; management personnel's illegal command, unauthorized change of safety technology and operation procedures, command workers without safety training or personnel without corresponding qualifications to operate, etc.
Second, the unsafe state of facilities and equipment. Including failure to set up safety warning signs in accordance with relevant specifications and standards; failure to comply with national or industrial standards in the design, manufacture, installation, use, testing, maintenance, transformation and scrapping of safety equipment; failure to carry out regular maintenance and testing of safety equipment; Close and destroy the monitoring, alarm, protection and life-saving equipment and facilities directly related to production safety, and tamper with, conceal and destroy the relevant data and information.
Third, the unsafe factors of the environment. Including failure to apply for relevant approval or permit in the workplace according to law, insufficient risk assessment of the workplace, failure to monitor the risk of the workplace and set up effective safety guarantee, failure to rectify the hidden dangers of accidents in the workplace, failure to implement safety measures in accordance with regulations for blasting, hoisting, hot work, temporary power use and other dangerous operations.
Fourth, there are defects and loopholes in safety management. Including failure to investigate and rectify major accident hazards of the unit as required; failure to establish and implement the safety production responsibility system and operation procedures for all staff and posts of the unit, failure to formulate and implement the safety production education and training plan and emergency rescue plan for production safety accidents of the unit, failure to carry out emergency drills; failure to hold certificates for special operators; Contracting out or leasing production and operation projects and sites to units or individuals that do not have the conditions for safe production or corresponding qualifications; subcontracting and illegal subcontracting of construction, as well as problems and hidden dangers in the safety management of outsourced operations. On the basis of combining the actual production and operation activities of the unit, the
production and operation units should flexibly adopt such methods as compiling manual lists, setting up bulletin boards and conducting special training, pay attention to improving the ability of employees to identify potential accident hazards from the above aspects, constantly absorb and draw lessons from advanced management experience, and constantly improve their ability to identify potential accident hazards. Enhance the ability and enthusiasm of practitioners to discover, identify and report hidden dangers. In the next step, the Office of the Security Committee of the State Council and the Ministry of Emergency Management will collect and summarize the good experiences and practices of local production and business units in establishing internal reporting and reward mechanisms for potential accidents, and timely release typical cases to help production and business units in various industries learn from each other's strengths and complement each other's weaknesses, so as to improve their ability to investigate and manage potential accidents. The
document reads as follows:
to adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping's socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics in the new era, earnestly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition on safety in production, adhere to the supremacy of the people and life, adhere to the principle of safety first and prevention first, and adhere to the overall requirements of the three-year action to tackle the root causes of safety in production. We will promote the establishment and improvement of an incentive mechanism for internal reporting of potential accidents in production and business units in various industries, promote self-examination and self-correction of potential accidents by production and business units in a conscious, active and dynamic manner, and build a "people's defense line" in the field of production safety. By the end of June
2025, Promote coal mines, non-coal mines, oil and gas exploitation, chemical industry (including petrochemical industry), medicine, dangerous chemicals, fireworks and firecrackers, transportation (including roads, railways, civil aviation, water transportation, urban rail transit), construction (including tunnel construction), civil explosives, gas, fishing vessels, industry and trade. Production and operation units in key industries such as electric power shall establish and implement an incentive mechanism for internal reporting of potential accidents; by the end of 2025, production and operation units in other industries shall be promoted to establish and implement an incentive mechanism for internal reporting of potential accidents.
2. Main Tasks
All localities and relevant departments shall promote the establishment and improvement of the internal reporting and reward mechanism for potential accidents of production and business units, and shall focus on the following aspects:
(1) Clarify the contents of the report. Employees of production and business units are encouraged to focus on reporting the following situations:
1. Including employees' violations of safety rules and regulations, failure to implement safety production instructions, and incorrect use of personal labor protection articles; Management personnel command in violation of regulations, change safety technology and operation procedures without authorization, command workers without safety training or personnel without corresponding qualifications to operate, etc.
2. Failure to set up safety warning signs in accordance with relevant specifications and standards; failure to comply with national or industrial standards in the design, manufacture, installation, use, testing, maintenance, transformation and scrapping of safety equipment; failure to carry out regular maintenance and testing of safety equipment; Close and destroy the monitoring, alarm, protection and life-saving equipment and facilities directly related to production safety, and tamper with, conceal and destroy relevant data and information.
3. Including the failure to handle the relevant approval or permit in the workplace according to law, the lack of risk assessment of the workplace, the failure to monitor the risk of the workplace and set up effective security, the failure to rectify the hidden dangers of accidents in the workplace, the failure to implement safety measures in accordance with regulations for blasting, hoisting, hot work, temporary power use and other dangerous operations.
4. Including failure to investigate and rectify the unit's major accident hazards as required; failure to establish and implement the unit's safety production responsibility system and operating procedures for all staff and posts, failure to formulate and implement the unit's safety production education and training plan, emergency rescue plan for production safety accidents, failure to carry out emergency drills; failure to hold certificates for special operators; Contracting out or leasing production and operation projects and sites to units or individuals that do not have the conditions for safe production or corresponding qualifications; subcontracting and illegal subcontracting of construction, as well as problems and hidden dangers in the safety management of outsourced operations. Employees of production and business units are
encouraged to put forward reasonable suggestions for rectification while reporting potential accidents. Employees in this Opinion refer to all personnel engaged in production and operation activities of the unit, including managers, technicians and workers in various positions, as well as temporary employees and dispatched workers of the production and operation unit.
(2) Clear reporting channels. Promote production and business units to clarify the units and personnel that accept employees'reports of potential accidents, flexibly adopt various acceptance methods such as Wechat applet, telephone, e-mail and so on, and publicize them to the whole staff in a striking position, simplify reporting procedures and smooth reporting channels, so that employees can clearly "report to whom and how".
(3) Carefully check and rectify. The person in charge of the production and business operation unit shall communicate with the reporting personnel in a timely manner, conduct research and organize verification of the accident potential reported by the employees. If the report is verified to be true, it shall be rectified immediately; if it cannot be rectified immediately, it shall establish an account to implement closed-loop management, and earnestly implement the "five implementations" of the responsible person, measures, funds, time limit and contingency plan, so as to strictly prevent the occurrence of accidents.
(4) Implementing incentive funds. Promote production and business units to implement the incentive expenditure for employees to report potential accident hazards in accordance with the provisions of the Measures for the Administration of the Extraction and Use of Enterprise Safety Production Expenses.
(5) Timely implementation of rewards. Promote production and business units to timely reward the hidden dangers of accidents reported by employees, combine material rewards with spiritual rewards, encourage "small hidden dangers awards, big hidden dangers awards", and reward prominent problems such as reporting major hidden dangers of accidents.
(6) Strengthen positive incentives. Strengthen the protection of the legitimate rights and interests of employees who report potential accidents in production and business units, combine with the actual situation, carry out better reporting of potential accidents for units and individuals, promote preferential performance appraisal, priority evaluation, personnel incentives and promotion, and strengthen incentives and guidance.
(7) Pay attention to the application of results. Emphasis should be placed on strengthening the analysis of hidden dangers reported by employees, studying and judging the problems existing in site management, responsibility implementation, equipment and facilities, technology and other aspects, and taking timely and targeted measures to improve them, so as to continuously improve the level of safe production.
(8) Strengthen propaganda and guidance. Strengthen the publicity of internal report and reward of accident hazards, improve the strong willingness and ability of employees to find and solve problems; strengthen training to improve the ability of employees to identify the safety risks and accident hazards of the unit and the post.
3. Promoting measures
The vast number of employees are in the front line of production and operation activities, and have the convenience and advantages of discovering and reporting hidden dangers of accidents at the first time. The implementation of internal reporting, internal handling, internal problems and internal solutions of potential accidents in production and business units is conducive to building harmonious labor relations, promoting the same frequency resonance and the same direction of the responsible persons and employees of production and business units, and eliminating the prominent problems and hidden dangers affecting production safety in a timely manner. All localities, relevant departments and units should earnestly promote the establishment and improvement of the incentive mechanism for internal reporting of potential accidents in production and business units as an innovative and reform-oriented measure to strengthen and improve the work of safe production in the new era, further enhance ideological awareness, strengthen organizational leadership and intensify efforts to promote it. Since 2025, the establishment and improvement of the internal reporting and reward mechanism for potential accidents in production and business units and the implementation effect will be included in the annual safety production assessment and inspection. In accordance with the principle of "three management and three necessities", relevant departments should do a good job in the implementation of the industry, strengthen supervision, guidance and statistical analysis, pay attention to demonstration and drive, and ensure tangible results.
