To effectively advance work safety for the new year and secure a sound start to relevant initiatives, Xingang recently convened an annual work safety review meeting cum deployment conference for its 100-Day Safety Campaign. The event wrapped up a full review of the company’s 2025 safety performance while rolling out arrangements for 2026 safety management and the 100-Day Campaign. Li Hongchao, Deputy General Manager of the company, attended the meeting and put forward targeted requirements.

The meeting stressed that the company should carry forward proven practices including team-level safety management, dual-control inquiry at individual posts, case-based learning and emergency drills, refining such protocols and ensuring full implementation. All principal persons-in-charge must earnestly fulfill their primary safety accountability. The thoroughness and effectiveness of safety administration hinge entirely on top leaders’ attitudes toward safety, whose attention directly determines the execution of safety rules. In line with 12 prescribed accountability items, the Safety Department shall conduct monthly oversight and inspections. The enterprise will abide by the regulatory principle of “three managements and three compulsories” and enforce accountability at all hierarchical levels: those overseeing production, business operations and specialized functions must each assume corresponding safety management duties, with specialized personnel taking charge of professional affairs. For instance, where irregular electrical wiring is spotted by safety inspectors but missed by electrical administrators during routine checks, it points to inadequate source control by relevant technical staff. Similarly, cases where production supervisors fail to restore on-site safety facilities after equipment startup or shutdown, only for such lapses to be uncovered in safety audits, represent a dereliction of the obligation to manage safety alongside production.

Priority must be placed on implementation down to frontline grassroots levels, with top management spearheading enforcement. Most stalled safety initiatives get held up at the workshop level, which ultimately stems from flawed plant-level safety governance. With frontline delivery as the core of safety management, bottlenecks at intermediate management tiers inevitably result in incomplete on-site execution. All departments shall draw hard lessons from two work-related injury incidents and one fire accident recorded in 2025, leaving no high-risk operation unattended. It must be borne in mind that no safety detail is trivial, and minor incidents reflect gaps in management.

Special attention shall be paid to winter production safety centered on six prevention priorities: fire prevention, explosion protection, freeze protection, anti-slip management, coal gas poisoning prevention and collapse avoidance. Historical accident data highlights fire control, freeze protection and coal gas hazard prevention as core priorities; factory directors shall personally organize regular targeted planning, deployment and monthly inspections for these tasks. Maintenance and remediation of coal gas facilities and pipelines will continue unabated, with persistent upgrades to blast furnace gas systems. A mandatory repair-and-retrofit rule will apply for all maintenance works throughout production to safeguard stable and secure operation of the legacy plant site, eliminating any complacency or fluke mentality.

The three-minute pre-shift briefing will be fully leveraged as a regular safety reminder. For example, extra reminders about commuting traffic safety shall be delivered during pre-shift meetings on snowy winter days. Team leaders across all divisions are required to make full use of these briefings to keep safety alerts top of mind and sustain long-term safety oversight.

The rollout of the 100-Day Safety Campaign is designed to shore up Xingang’s foundational safety development via systematic intensified controls, paving a solid groundwork for robust work safety performance throughout 2026.