Major inspection conducted on geological disaster prevention & control

From March 25 to April 10, Guiyang in Guizhou province conducted an overhaul of the city's geological disaster prevention and control practices.

The city's geological survey management office, the geological disaster emergency center, and the Guiyang branch of Guizhou Geological Environment Monitoring Institute created a team to carry out the inspections.

The inspection team conducted geological disaster investigations before the flood season in all districts (county-level cities, counties), examined the compilation process of prevention and control plans, and supervised the construction and acceptance of geological disaster management projects.

They also asked for security guarantees and work shift information, the implementation of preventive and control measures for hidden dangers, and other work and system information.

A total of more than 100 documents were spot-checked, and 10 geological disaster control projects and 13 sites of potential geological disaster hazards were randomly inspected.

The inspection team emphasized that the weather forecast predicts much more rainfall this year than previous years, which adds difficulty to geological disaster prevention and control.

The following work should be undertaken: first, local areas must make preparations for "preventing major disasters and eliminating major dangers"; second, local geological disaster prevention and control headquarters must have the ability to organize hazard supervision and inspections as well as implementing preventive measures.

Third, prevention and control plans for geological disasters must be designed and reported in a timely manner; fourth, signs warning of "Danger - Hidden Sites" should be replaced with new ones regularly according to troubleshooting results; fifth, there must be guards 24 hours a day, with leaders taking charge of the shift.