Workers did not check the quality of helmets. The reporter interviewed several construction sites in the urban area and learned that although wearing a helmet to enter the site has become a system, the relevant departments do not check the quality of the helmets. .
A safety officer at a construction site on Chunhui Road in the urban area said that under normal circumstances, very few departments come to the site to inspect safety work. Even if they came over, they only looked at workers wearing helmets. "As for the quality of the hats they wear, no one asked."
The Safety Supervision Bureau's poor quality helmets do exist. Director of the Planning Technology Division of the Municipal Bureau of Safe Production Supervision said that there are no professional helmet manufacturers in the city. In accordance with the relevant regulations, helmet users must establish a system for the use of labor protection products. Purchase, warehousing, use, and regular replacement must have strict records to maintain quality; sales units should be purchased from regular production companies. However, in fact, some construction companies have allocated low-cost, low-quality helmets to workers for cost reduction. Some unscrupulous merchants sell counterfeit and inferior products in pursuit of profits.
According to reports, starting from July this year, the Bureau launched a special law enforcement inspection on labor protection products. The main targets of inspection are units that produce, use, and operate labor protection products. The inspection showed that the situation of sales and use of inferior helmets in our city did exist.
Director Liu said that as a comprehensive supervisory authority, they can only conduct spot checks on the work of the relevant departments. Direct management of safety helmets should be a matter of construction management.
The Bureau of Construction and Industry could not test on site A person in charge of the surname Zhu of the Construction Safety Supervision and Administration Bureau of the Municipal Construction Industry Bureau stated that their function is to supervise the construction process and have the right to manage the use of helmets. In general, they found that construction workers did not wear helmets for production and would correct them. If there are a large number of people who violate the rules, a notice of rectification will be issued and the relevant provisions will be dealt with accordingly. However, due to the quality of the helmets, it is difficult for the construction and engineering department to grasp them. Because there is no professional testing equipment, it is impossible to determine whether it is qualified or not.
He believes that to solve this problem, only the relevant departments should control the production of hard hats at the source and the circulation enterprises, so that poor quality helmets will not flow into the market.
The Quality Supervision Bureau does not currently have the ability to detect. Director Zhu of the Inspection Department of the Municipal Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision said that they regularly carry out quality inspections and other law enforcement activities for units that manufacture and sell labor protection products. For construction sites, they check less. Because the quality of the helmet changed after being used by the worker, the person being examined often denounced the reason for this, which made it difficult for them to check.
Director Zhu said that at present, the quality inspection institute of this bureau still does not have the ability to detect the quality and performance of helmets, and must be sent to places where conditions are tested to carry out tests.
Industry and Industry Bureau sampling activities did not involve helmets. A staff member of the Consumer Protection Department of the Municipal Bureau of Industry and Commerce said that helmets are sold in the market and they will be checked if they receive complaints from consumers. Under normal circumstances, they only perform sampling inspections on units that sell helmets, and they are not good enough to check on the construction site. Moreover, the inspection needs the cooperation of relevant departments, and they are not specialized inspection agencies.
She said that since the beginning of this year, the sampling activities organized by them have not involved helmets.
Safety helmet quality supervision needs to be strengthened
The entry of poor quality helmets into the market poses a threat to the lives of construction workers. The supervision of the quality of helmets by relevant functional departments needs to be strengthened.