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Fireworks safety drive launched, Beijing
Beijing: The capital is pushing for safer festivals with the introduction of measures to encourage more careful use of fireworks.
The Beijing municipal supervisory bureau for work safety says it will ask sellers of fireworks to pay deposit money as a security guarantee-and only return it if there are no accidents, according to the Beijing news
The Xicheng branch of the bureau has set the deposit at 200.000 yuan for each seller who passes a safety examination and whose stall is verified, according to the newspaper.
It will be the first time the bureau has taken a safety deposit since it relaxed its prohibition of festival-celebrating fireworks in 2005. In 1993 fireworks were banned completely in Beijing but in 2005, the bureau said fireworks could be lit between Spring Festival Eve and the Lantern Festival (+-2 weeks).
According to city's safety watchdogs, all fireworks stalls within the 5th Ring Road will be numbered with a 13-digit code to help them with monitoring and management.
And the arch-roofed sheds in which residents gathered to buy fireworks will be replaced with fireproof stalls. The exhibition and sales area and the stock area in the stalls will be separated by fireproof materials. Low temperature and explosion-proof lights will also be mandatory.
"Electronic eyes" will also play an important role in fireworks management. The bureau is encouraging all fireworks stalls to be equipped with closed circuit television cameras (cctv), which some sellers pioneerd a few years ealiers. "The main purpose of the cameras is guarding against fire and thieves"a seller was quoted as saying in Beijing Times.
A fireworks stall usually stocks hunderds of boxes of fireworks and the cctv, will cover every corner of the stall around the clock.
In addition, the bureau has brought in a credit mechanism related to fireworks."Those sellers who violate municipal safety regulations or who have accidents while oprating their stalls will be blacklisted, which will directly affect their annual application for the sale of fireworks in the future," said an officer with the safety bureau, who declined to be named.
The Bureau welcomes all complaints about the sale and storage of fireworks through the 12350 hotline. The line will be monitored around the clock.
China Daily
Artikel over de verkoop van vuurwerk in Beijing, uit de metro Beijing van gisteren.
Beijing: The capital is pushing for safer festivals with the introduction of measures to encourage more careful use of fireworks.
The Beijing municipal supervisory bureau for work safety says it will ask sellers of fireworks to pay deposit money as a security guarantee-and only return it if there are no accidents, according to the Beijing news
The Xicheng branch of the bureau has set the deposit at 200.000 yuan for each seller who passes a safety examination and whose stall is verified, according to the newspaper.
It will be the first time the bureau has taken a safety deposit since it relaxed its prohibition of festival-celebrating fireworks in 2005. In 1993 fireworks were banned completely in Beijing but in 2005, the bureau said fireworks could be lit between Spring Festival Eve and the Lantern Festival (+-2 weeks).
According to city's safety watchdogs, all fireworks stalls within the 5th Ring Road will be numbered with a 13-digit code to help them with monitoring and management.
And the arch-roofed sheds in which residents gathered to buy fireworks will be replaced with fireproof stalls. The exhibition and sales area and the stock area in the stalls will be separated by fireproof materials. Low temperature and explosion-proof lights will also be mandatory.
"Electronic eyes" will also play an important role in fireworks management. The bureau is encouraging all fireworks stalls to be equipped with closed circuit television cameras (cctv), which some sellers pioneerd a few years ealiers. "The main purpose of the cameras is guarding against fire and thieves"a seller was quoted as saying in Beijing Times.
A fireworks stall usually stocks hunderds of boxes of fireworks and the cctv, will cover every corner of the stall around the clock.
In addition, the bureau has brought in a credit mechanism related to fireworks."Those sellers who violate municipal safety regulations or who have accidents while oprating their stalls will be blacklisted, which will directly affect their annual application for the sale of fireworks in the future," said an officer with the safety bureau, who declined to be named.
The Bureau welcomes all complaints about the sale and storage of fireworks through the 12350 hotline. The line will be monitored around the clock.
China Daily
Artikel over de verkoop van vuurwerk in Beijing, uit de metro Beijing van gisteren.