Establish joint governance mechanism to ensure elevator safety

The results of the first elevator safety network survey jointly conducted by the Special Equipment Supervision Bureau of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) and China Economic Net have been released. The results show that the public's awareness and attention to elevator safety are getting higher and higher, and the establishment of a social multi-governance mechanism for elevator safety has gradually become a social consensus.

In recent years, with the implementation of perfecting laws and regulations system, strengthening supervision and inspection, developing hidden danger management and other measures, elevator safety situation in our country on the whole shows an improving trend. However, the safety of the elevator involves all aspects, not only involves the design, manufacturing, installation, maintenance, packaging of the production unit, the use of the unit, the acceptance inspection of the inspection unit, but also involves the supervision of the supervision department, the improvement of public safety awareness and so on. General administration of quality supervision, inspection and quarantine administration of special equipment and elevator safety China JingJiWang network survey, to continue to improve the level of the use of the elevator safety in our country, you need to build an "overall responsibility for enterprises, the government unified leadership, the department joint supervision and inspection technology, broad participation of society" multiple work system.

To this, the general administration of quality supervision, inspection and quarantine administration of special equipment safety head Song Jihong, elevator testing center of Shanghai jiao tong university professor chang-ming zhu believes that introducing insurance mechanism, in the elevator safety assessment work, to improve the security of people in the elevator with aspects of education, clear each unit on the elevator using security responsibility chain, etc., are important measures to improve the level of the elevator use safety.

Compulsory safety liability insurance is looming

Elevator problems occur from time to time, constantly stimulate the public safety nerve. In the survey, one question was "Do you think it is necessary for elevators to have mandatory safety liability insurance with reference to automobiles and other products?" In response, 84 percent of respondents said "necessary."

In this regard, Zhu Changming said that the elevator is also a means of transportation to some extent, referring to the introduction of the car elevator insurance mechanism, or it is very necessary. "When you have insurance mechanisms, you can reduce risk and you can increase some of the affordability of society. In developed countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom and France, elevator insurance mechanism has been introduced for decades. In 2003, France enacted a law to take multi-channel measures to improve the safety level of elevator use, and one of the important measures is to introduce insurance mechanism."

He explained that after the introduction of the elevator insurance system, the insurance company will supervise the use of the elevator safety and maintenance quality, there will be a special inspection team to inspect the elevator, if the inspection company believes that a part of the elevator needs to be replaced, then the owner should pay to replace it. If you don't, then the insurance company won't pay out if something goes wrong later. And if the owner pays to replace the parts, and there is a problem, you can find a maintenance company. This objectively plays a role in supervising the use of the elevator management and maintaining the quality of the elevator.

Song Jihong said that elevator safety liability insurance is very important to promote elevator safety, and it is actually a social assistance mechanism to ensure elevator safety. About insurance REGULATION, in "special equipment safety LAW" 17 put forward an encouraging policy, is the country to encourage insurance special equipment safety liability insurance. At present, under the legal framework, some users of special equipment and some community owners are trying to pilot elevator insurance work, and now some places have introduced insurance mechanism, which has played a positive role in accident compensation and accident prevention.

Safety assessment effectively ensures the safety of use

Song Jihong said that at present, Beijing, Shanghai and some other areas, have carried out safety assessment of old elevators, using units and owners can decide whether to overhaul or replace the elevator according to the results of safety assessment. Some parts of the world have formulated the standard in safety assessment, aqsiq has also been in formulating the elevator safety guidelines for the evaluation, to guide and help to the specification of the work to carry out, "the rules, will greatly promote the solution, including old elevator, some unsafe factors of elevator problems". Establish joint governance mechanism to ensure elevator safety

Zhu Changming also believes that safety assessment is an effective measure to ensure the safety of elevators, especially old elevators. He said that the safe use of the elevator is related to a variety of factors, such as the quality of the elevator itself, the use of the elevator environment, frequency of use, as well as the maintenance quality of the elevator, it is difficult to use a fixed service life for a hard scrap provisions. But at present, the elevator condition in our country is more than 15 years of the so-called old elevator number is increasing. "As elevators age, their performance degrades, so the failure rate increases. Safety assessment and risk analysis are the attitude and method of science to deal with the existing problems."

The chain of responsibility for safety must be clear

"The public is in some cases responsible for the safety of elevators." Song Jihong said, "special equipment safety Law" Article 38 clear special equipment including elevator co-owner of the responsibility and obligation. "For example, the co-owner of the elevator in the community is the entire owner, and they are also responsible for the safety of the elevator. The owner can entrust the property to manage the elevator in the form of entrustment. Entrusted to the property, the property will assume the responsibility and obligation of elevator safety. And for the co-owner did not entrust the property, the co-owner should be responsible."

In reality, for some residential areas without property, the elevator is in the situation of unsupervised, security risks are often more, then the supervision department will be the lack of management, the existence of safety risks of the elevator to block. "But after the closure, it also affected the lives of ordinary people, and some places used it without authorization. It is suggested that local governments should pay great attention and coordinate and organize to solve the problem." "Song Jihong said.

Secondly, the manufacturer of the elevator is also responsible for the safety of the elevator. Song Jihong said that in accordance with the relevant regulations, the elevator manufacturing units should track and understand the operation of the elevator, and at the same time, the elevator maintenance units and use units of some problems affecting the safety of the elevator to put forward suggestions for improvement, but also to help solve the problems existing in the elevator safety situation. As for the major hidden dangers found in the elevator, the manufacturing unit should request the using unit to solve them, or suggest stopping the operation, and report the situation to the department responsible for the safety supervision and management of the elevator. At the same time, the work should be recorded for future reference.

In addition, the maintenance of the elevator is very important to ensure the safe use of the elevator. In this regard, Song Jihong said that the elevator maintenance work can be divided into two aspects, one is daily safety inspection, and another is maintenance. Regarding the daily inspection, there are clear provisions in the relevant laws and regulations, the use of the elevator unit should be equipped with full-time safety management personnel responsible for the daily safety inspection of the elevator, found problems to correct in time, major hidden dangers, can stop the use of the elevator on the spot, and report to the relevant person in charge.

The maintenance of the elevator should be carried out by the elevator manufacturing unit, or the unit that has obtained the qualification of installation, repair and transformation. The maintenance unit should be engaged in the maintenance work in strict accordance with the safety technical specifications, to ensure that the maintenance of the elevator can operate continuously and reliably, and ensure its safety performance. Therefore, the elevator maintenance unit should be responsible for the safety performance of the elevator.

In addition to the elevator manufacturing, maintenance, use units should carry out daily inspection and maintenance, elevator acceptance inspection and regular inspection is also very important, this work needs to be completed by the elevator inspection unit.

In accordance with the law, the elevator to safety checks before put into use, to conduct regular inspection after put into use, the elevator inspection unit shall be in strict accordance with the safety technical specifications of elevator technology inspection regularly, including validation of production unit using the elevator security responsibility to carry out the situation, check whether the elevator safety performance meet the requirements, etc.

Song also pointed out that government departments should fully fulfill their responsibility for elevator safety. According to the Special Equipment Safety Law of China, the state implements the whole process supervision and management of the special equipment including the elevator. As a supervision department, the design, manufacturing, operation, use, maintenance, inspection and testing of the elevator should be supervised and inspected. Specific to the actual work, on the one hand is to take the administrative license system, the elevator production unit inspection, the use of the elevator registration, the elevator industry related personnel including safety management personnel, inspection and testing personnel for examination and certification, at the same time, the elevator inspection institutions for qualification approval. In addition, is the elevator and other special equipment for supervision and inspection, the main content includes compulsory inspection system, on-site inspection system, action law enforcement system, accident investigation and handling system and safety status announcement system.

 According to the current pilot, it takes 14.8 minutes to rescue people trapped in elevators, which used to take one hour. For this measure, we intend to implement it on a pilot basis."