Rescuers try to make contact with trapped miners at the explosion site of a gold mine in Qixia City, east China's Shandong Province, Jan. 18, 2021. A paper slip retrieved from underneath a mine said that 12 workers are still alive while the other 10 are in unclear situation, after they were trapped following a gold mine blast in east China's Shandong Province, according to local authorities.

East China's Shandong Province will carry out a comprehensive and thorough safety inspection of all underground non-coal mines by the end of March after two separate mine accidents claimed the lives of 16 miners. 

A fire in a gold mine in Yantai on Wednesday morning resulted in six deaths and on January 10, an explosion at a gold mine in Qixia city of Yantai led to 10 deaths.

Only mines that have been certified safe can resume production. Mines that don't meet safety requirements will be given time to get up to standard and they will be closed if they still do not meet the standard after the "rectification period", Qin Chuanbin, the leader of Shandong Provincial Emergency Management Department said at a video conference held on Wednesday afternoon, Chinanews reported.

Shandong will immediately organize on-the-spot monitoring of hazardous chemical production enterprises, non-coal mining enterprises and key industrial and trade enterprises. Considering the characteristics of the resumption of work and production after the Spring Festival holidays, persons in charge of the enterprises are demanded to strengthen safety awareness for all employees.

A safety assessment of all coal and non-coal mines in Shandong will be carried out quickly, focusing on the investigation of underground mines in production, under construction, technological upgrading and suspension of production. All links in production, management, equipment and facilities, site operation, etc. should be covered in the inspection, according to the conference.

The authority urges enterprises to strengthen safety management, and improve their ability to prevent and control risks and accidents.

Implementing all the demanded work well is the key point to keep safe production. Secret inspection and cross-investigation in different places will be carried out to strictly check the implementation of safe production.

Emergency preparation should be strengthened to prevent forest fire. Fire sources of forest farms should be strictly controlled, special personnel should be located at key locations, fire monitoring should be carried out all day, early warning information should be released in time, and professional fire prevention teams should be stationed at the forefront, the emergency management department stressed at the conference.

Global Times