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According to Li Shaotang from the former Shanghai Administration of Work Safety, Shanghai will take further steps to ensure the safe and efficient management of hazardous chemicals in the city.
The main plans are as below:
1. Further Differentiate HazChem Management Based on Geographical Area
Shanghai uses 3 different inventories as its primary references to manage “Prohibited, Limited & Controlled Hazardous Chemicals” including 2 negative lists and 1 positive list. Based on the hazards of chemicals, chemicals are subject to different management requirements. Some are comprehensively prohibited in the whole city, some are forbidden in the central area but are permitted to be manufactured in industrial parks, and the chemicals on the positive list are allowed to be managed in the central area if they meet certain conditions. In future, Shanghai will possibly divide its city into more areas and each area will be regulated based on the associated requirements and reference inventories. This will allow officials to accurately and quickly assess the distribution of HazChems in Shanghai.
2. To further sequester hazardous chemical production bases
Shanghai was the first city to mandate the sequestration of chemical plants to industrial parks. As early as 2006, Shanghai started to optimize HazChem plant distribution in the city. In 2009, Shanghai issued special subsidy measures to encourage HazChem enterprises to promote work safety. From 2014 onwards, the management focus turns to HazChem enterprises outside chemical parks and enterprises posing high risk, high pollution, and high energy consumption.
3. To develop new work safety management processes
Shanghai encourages HazChem enterprises to invite 3rd party service providers or associations to monitor onsite hazardous chemical operations.
Overall, Shanghai has over 18000 enterprises involved with HazChem business (over 260 manufacturers, 117 enterprises managing HazChem, and over 8000 retailers), and more than 2700 types of HazChem. The transportation volume of HazChem exceeds 1.1 billion tons every year.
The large volume and ubiquity of hazardous chemicals in the city brings considerable economic benefits, but also poses high risks. Shanghai will take further steps to strengthen regulations on HazChem to ensure public safety and enterprise compliance.
