From May onward, Hainan region has been persistently plagued by high temperature, with the highest temperature of 38℃ and above at noon time, workers are easy to suffer a heatstroke if they work outdoors for a long period of time. To ensure the safety of workers working at the construction site and further implement the requirements of the “Safety Month” and let the site management and operation personnel understand how to correctly cope with unexpected heatstroke incident, Vopak/SDIC Storage Terminal project office organized employees of the specialized companies, contractors and subcontractors to carry out heatstroke emergency response drill at the tank farm on June 18. The whole process afforded to the employees on general knowledge of first-aid for heatstroke.
On June 19, the Utilities Project Department at the site of Refinery Revamp of Sinopec Yangzi Company organized an emergency response drill of first-aid for electric shock of employees on site. Through a couple of processes such as electric shock emergency relief, temporary treatment, incident reporting, organizing first-aid, etc., an emergency response plan for the site electric shock accident was thoroughly drilled, and the expected goals were achieved. The drill effectively implemented the safety production policy “Safety First, Prevention Foremost” and the precautionary measures in dealing with unexpected incident developed by the Project Department, capability of the Project Department in handling and disposing unexpected safety incident was enhanced.
On June 20, Yangtze-BASF GAA Unit organized an emergency evacuation drill on contingent spill of adjacent unit according to the actual situation of the site. Given the fact that there are already a number of built units in the perimeter of GAA unit, which are adjacent to each other, it came up an urgent and thorny problem for the Project Department as how to evacuate quickly and effectively the people on site and to ensure life safety of the on-site people in case of spill occurrence. The emergency evacuation drill this time was to do well in the contingency plan for the possible emergency conditions, aiming at strengthening on-site people’s abilities in risk identification and avoiding, acquainting themselves with the on-site emergency response procedures and emergency evacuation routes, as well as augmenting their on-site emergency responsiveness.