Recently, the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Emergency Management and the Jiangxi Bureau of the National Mine Safety Administration jointly issued a notice informing about recent mine accidents and re-deploying efforts to ensure comprehensive safety precautions in the fourth quarter.

　　We must clearly recognize the grim situation and genuinely enhance our sense of urgency in our work. Safe production in mines is the top priority in all safety production efforts. Jiangxi Province has a large number of mines, diverse types of mining operations, wide geographic distribution, and severe hazards, making it highly vulnerable to accidents of significant magnitude or above. All localities, departments, and relevant enterprises must elevate their political awareness, resolutely discard complacency,侥幸 mentality, and war-weariness, and truly strengthen their risk awareness and sense of potential danger. We must further reinforce responsibility for safe production, continuously advance the three-year special campaign to address the root causes of mine safety issues, and, in conjunction with the special campaign themed “Study Iron Rules, Clarify Responsibilities, Ensure Rigorous Implementation, and Guarantee Safety,” rigorously enforce the “Eight Tough Measures” for mine safety. We must nip potential hazards in the bud—before they develop into full-blown disasters—and firmly curb the resurgence of mine accidents, ensuring that the province’s mine safety situation remains stable throughout the fourth quarter.

　　We must deeply learn from the lessons of past accidents and earnestly strengthen the identification and remediation of potential hazards. Mining enterprises are the primary entities responsible for identifying and addressing accident hazards. All mining enterprises must adopt the mindset that others’ accidents are their own, conduct comprehensive and thorough inspections to identify, rectify, and eliminate major accident hazards, and carry out targeted inspections and rectifications in a systematic and proactive manner. We must effectively enhance the identification and remediation of fire safety hazards in above-ground buildings and both surface and underground mine areas, and rigorously implement fire prevention measures against both internal and external ignition sources. We must also strengthen the management of water hazards and ventilation/gas control in mines, thoroughly investigate hidden factors that could trigger disasters, and strictly prohibit risky or non-compliant production activities until disaster risks are fully addressed. Furthermore, we must strictly enforce the three “10” regulations aimed at strengthening roof management, scientifically develop support designs, and ensure high-quality construction of support systems. Finally, we must intensify the inspection and management of hoisting and transportation equipment and facilities to guarantee their safe and reliable operation.

　　Implement mine safety responsibilities and effectively strengthen the prevention and control of major risks. All localities and departments should urge the principal persons in charge of mining enterprises to strictly fulfill their primary responsibility for safe production by being present on-site in accordance with the law, and to improve and implement mechanisms for analyzing, assessing, and controlling major risks. Each mining enterprise must remain highly vigilant against various risks, including changes in rock stress, abnormal gas emissions, and alterations in ventilation systems. Strengthen preventive measures against gas hazards, water disasters, fires, roof collapses, coal dust, bump phenomena, transportation, hoisting, mechanical and electrical equipment, hydraulic systems, blasting operations, frost and slip prevention in open-pit mines, and winter tailings dam construction and dam reinforcement. Mining operations shall not commence until disaster risks have been thoroughly identified, investigated, addressed, controlled, and adequately prevented. Furthermore, it is essential to reinforce safety management for high-risk operations and critical links, refine the formulation of safety technical measures, and closely monitor and ensure their effective implementation on-site.

　　Strengthen accident warning and education to effectively enhance the safety awareness and competence of workers. People are the primary factor in safe production. All localities and departments should carefully organize accident-warning education based on the problems and lessons revealed by accidents, keeping the alarm bell ringing constantly and adopting practical and effective measures to prevent repeated mistakes. Truly achieve the goal of "When one mine has an accident, ten thousand mines receive the lesson." All mining enterprises must earnestly strengthen safety education and training for their employees, continuously improving their safe operating skills and their awareness of self-protection and mutual protection, ensuring that they adhere to the principle of "four no-harm" practices. All localities, departments, and mining enterprises should regularly conduct emergency rescue drills and normalize emergency skills training. Anyone who cannot proficiently master the three key elements of emergency evacuation—properly and skillfully using self-rescue devices, being thoroughly familiar with evacuation routes, and being well-acquainted with emergency shelter facilities and equipment—must not be assigned to work duties.

　　We must strictly crack down on illegal and non-compliant activities and effectively enhance the quality and effectiveness of regulatory and supervisory efforts. Mining safety regulatory and supervisory authorities at all levels should continue to strengthen standardized, fair, and civilized law enforcement, focusing on key enterprises, key regions, major disasters, and significant risks. They should earnestly boost their strong willingness and capability to identify and address problems. By employing a variety of inspection methods—including open inspections, undercover investigations, surprise nighttime checks, and random spot checks—they should severely crack down on illegal and non-compliant activities in the field of mining safety. Specifically, they should take stringent and severe measures against typical illegal and non-compliant behaviors such as operations in concealed work areas, tampering with surveillance cameras, overcapacity, over-intensity, and exceeding staffing limits in production, as well as practices like covert mining under the guise of apparent shutdowns, simultaneous production and construction, failure to organize production and construction according to design specifications, falsification of monitoring systems, and forgery of permits and credentials. Moreover, we must adhere to the principle of "investigating both the case and the responsible parties simultaneously, and imposing dual penalties for each case," rigorously tracing back and holding accountable both the individuals and entities bearing responsibility.