Elevator safety accidents occur from time to time. Legislation to promote intelligent elevator system in many places

　　In September this year, Chongqing will put into use the "smart elevator" system to install the "brain" on the elevator ". This system can realize the continuous automatic monitoring, accident early warning and data tracing of the elevator state, making the elevator more safe and intelligent.

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It is worth noting that some places have written smart elevator systems into local regulations. For example, the "Huaian City Residential Elevator Safety Regulations" require that newly installed residential elevators should have functions such as operating parameter collection, information network transmission, automatic alarm, real-time calls, and video surveillance systems.

In recent years, in order to reduce the occurrence of elevator safety accidents, Heilongjiang, Fujian, Liaoning, Guizhou and other places have adopted legislation to amend the law, from the production and operation of elevators, use management, maintenance, inspection and safety assessment, supervision and service, emergency rescue, Legal liability and other aspects, standardize the safety management of elevators.

In an interview with a reporter from the Rule of Law Daily recently, a number of industry insiders suggested that on the basis of summing up local legislative experience, the relevant provisions in the Special Equipment Safety Law should be improved, and the product quality of elevators and related subject responsibilities should be clearly stipulated., To provide a strong legal guarantee for dealing with the sharp increase in the total number of elevators, the frequent occurrence of elevator accidents, and the increase in the complaint rate of elevator failures, let the elevator, a daily facility, no longer become a high incidence of danger.

Elevator accidents show multiple trends

Trapped, rushed to the top, falling... Recently, many elevator failures, accidents, so that the topic of elevator safety once again into the public eye.

On the evening of May 3, a 13-year-old boy in Lanwan Yajing District, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, had an accident due to elevator failure. On the evening of May 23, an elevator safety accident occurred in Ankang Jinhai Phase II Community, Chikan District, Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province. The elevator accelerated from the first floor and crashed into the 30th floor, causing one person to die.

Many elevator safety accidents have made Liu Fengyuan afraid to take the elevator that has broken down many times in the community. Liu Fengyuan, who lives in the Ideal City Community in Handan City, Hebei Province, has been trapped in an elevator three times. Once the elevator fell from the third floor to the negative first floor. The call button in the elevator didn't work at all. Without a mobile phone, he had to slap the elevator door hard, which attracted other residents to help call for rescue.

"The elevator in our building often breaks down, and often people get trapped, and every time it's repaired and then breaks down, and my 5-year-old has been trapped in it. Especially from the news of the elevator safety accident that happened some time ago, we are afraid to take that elevator now." Liu Fengyuan said.

At present, China's elevator ownership and annual sales volume rank first in the world, and elevator accidents are prone. According to the "Notice on the Safety Status of Special Equipment in the Country in 2020" issued by the State Administration of Market Supervision, as of the end of 2020, the number of elevators in the country was 7.8655 million. In 2020, there were 25 elevator accidents and 19 deaths nationwide.

Huang Lianxi, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a partner of Zhejiang Tiance Law Firm, said bluntly that after years of development, my country has become a major elevator production and sales country. However, from the perspective of users' objective experience, there are some problems in the elevator industry, such as the quality needs to be improved, the proportion of maintenance of elevator production enterprises is not high, and the product quality responsibility is not implemented.

Legislation in many places to ensure the safety of the ladder

In the face of many problems caused by the rapid growth of elevators year by year, many places in the country have issued special legislation to regulate. According to the reporter's incomplete statistics, there are currently 46 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and cities divided into districts that legislate on elevator safety.

Although these local laws and regulations are different in the number of chapters, they basically cover production and operation, use, maintenance, inspection and testing, supervision and management, emergency response, legal liability and so on.

Especially in strengthening the implementation of the main responsibility, all localities have made more clear provisions.

The Regulations of Liaoning Province on Elevator Safety Management require that the market supervision and management department and other departments responsible for elevator safety management should formulate elevator safety supervision and inspection plans and related measures, and conduct regular inspections or spot checks on elevator safety according to their division of responsibilities in accordance with the law. For the illegal, illegal and hidden accidents found, timely put forward rectification and handling opinions, and carry out rectification supervision; for major violations of laws and regulations and hidden dangers of serious accidents, compulsory measures shall be taken immediately in accordance with the law and reported to the government at the corresponding level and the supervision and management department at a higher level.

According to the elevator safety regulations of Heilongjiang Province, if the elevator maintenance unit violates the provisions of these regulations, fails to set up a 24-hour duty telephone, fails to eliminate it in time after receiving the fault notice, or after receiving the fault report of the trapped person in the elevator, if the maintenance personnel fails to arrive at the scene within the prescribed time limit to carry out rescue, a fine of 20000 yuan shall be imposed.

In April this year, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province revised the Nanjing Elevator Safety regulations, which have been in force for nearly 10 years, with the aim of clarifying the responsibilities of manufacturing enterprises, industry committees, users and maintenance units, and solving the problems of elevator safety involving long chains and many subjects.

"Elevator safety is directly related to the personal safety of the people. Elevators should be regarded as public vehicles for the masses, and should be returned to the positioning of public goods for the masses. Through legislation, the competent departments of the industry should be clarified, and the production enterprises should be guided, guided, managed and standardized to build a quality assurance system for elevator products to ensure the quality of elevator products from the source." Huang Lianxi said.

Li Zhiqiang, deputy to the National People's Congress and deputy director of the Shanxi Provincial Market Supervision Bureau, believes that the supervision method should be changed from departmental supervision to multiple co-governance. Elevator safety is a part of social management, involving multiple responsible subjects and multi-departmental functions. It is necessary to clarify the responsibilities and obligations of all links in the entire life cycle of elevators from selection and procurement to scrapping and renewal, and it is necessary to establish local governments. The main responsibility of supervision, quality inspection, safety supervision, housing construction, finance, insurance supervision and other multi-departments work together to manage and coordinate a new supervision mechanism.

Promote the construction of intelligent elevator system

The Special Equipment Safety Law, which came into effect on January 1, 2014, puts forward the overall requirements for safety supervision of several types of special equipment, including elevators, and provides a strong legal guarantee for elevator safety.

Liu Junhai, a professor at the School of Law of Renmin University of China, believes that unlike other types of special equipment such as pressure pipes and lifting machinery, elevators, as a type of special equipment that is most closely related to the lives of the people, have safety requirements, supervision methods, emergency response, etc. There are big differences, and special regulations need to be made to regulate and ensure their safe use.

"In recent years, the total number of elevators in China has increased dramatically, elevator safety accidents are frequent, and elevator safety issues are becoming more and more important. At present, many places have responded to people's needs through legislation, and it is recommended to summarize the legislative experience of these places, and at the same time find out the causes and countermeasures of elevator safety accidents, and then improve the special equipment safety law to achieve the source of the problem of elevator safety hazards." Liu Junhai said.

Liu Junhai believes that the Special equipment Safety Law has been implemented for more than seven years, and with the rapid development of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, it is suggested that advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and the Internet of things should be introduced into elevator safety management, and through legislation, clearly establish a more intelligent elevator early warning and alarm mechanism.

The reporter noted that some local legislation clearly proposed the establishment of intelligent elevator system. The "Hangzhou Elevator Safety Management Regulations" proposes to promote the use of smart elevator systems, discover hidden dangers of elevator safety accidents in time, and conduct a comprehensive evaluation of elevator operating conditions based on recorded data to improve elevator safety management. The "Bengbu City Elevator Safety Management Regulations" require that the construction of smart elevator systems be promoted, and smart elevator systems with functions such as operating parameter collection, network remote transmission, one-button alarm, smart rescue, and dynamic supervision are gradually established.

Huang Lianxi said that through legislation, the application of information technology such as big data and the Internet of things should be strengthened to make elevator equipment form intelligent terminals and solve elevator safety problems.

Source: Rule of Law Daily, China News Network

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