Safety Assessment

The Safety Assessment Center is a second-level institution of Hunan Chemical Design Institute Co., Ltd. It was among the first batch of entities in Hunan Province to obtain Class A qualifications for safety assessment, which were reviewed and approved by the Hunan Provincial Administration of Work Safety in May 2005 and have remained valid ever since. On May 30, 2025, our institute successfully renewed its safety assessment qualification; the certificate number is APJ-(Hunan)-015, with validity extending until May 28, 2030. The scope of business covers Category I: petroleum processing, chemical raw materials, chemical products, and pharmaceutical manufacturing. The legal representative of the enterprise is Lin Zhiyong, who also serves as Party Secretary and General Manager of Hunan Chemical Design Institute Co., Ltd. Zhong Yanming holds the position of Director of the Safety Assessment Center (Senior Engineer, Level II Safety Assessor); the Technical Director is Yang Fangwen (Senior Engineer, Level I Safety Assessor), and the Process Control Officer is Li Yong (Senior Engineer, Registered Safety Engineer, Level I Safety Assessor). At present, all conditions remain in good standing, and there have been no changes to the scope of the qualification.
  1) Introduction to the Safety Assessment Center and Staffing Details
Our institute’s Safety Assessment Center is a specialized agency dedicated to conducting safety assessments for construction projects. Currently, it employs 13 full-time safety assessors holding the People’s Republic of China Safety Assessor Certificate and 15 full-time registered safety engineers, two of whom possess both the Safety Assessor and Registered Safety Engineer certifications. In total, our institute has 26 full-time technical personnel. Additionally, we have 17 full-time personnel certified by the China Association of Safety Professionals, including 4 who have been rehired. Altogether, the Safety Assessment Center comprises 43 technical staff, collectively holding 45 professional certificates. The professional expertise of our team includes: 3 specialists in chemical engineering and processes, 2 in electrical engineering, 3 in safety, 2 in chemical machinery, 1 in automation, and 2 in other fields. The qualifications and professional composition of our full-time safety assessors fully comply with the requirements set forth in Order No. 1 of the Ministry of Emergency Management. Many of these personnel are also members of provincial expert databases. They have participated in the assessment and approval of numerous construction projects, bringing years of experience in occupational safety. With broad knowledge and extensive practical experience, they are well-versed in China’s occupational health and safety laws and regulations, capable of independently conducting investigations and analyses of major occupational hazards and risks, as well as forecasting the severity of potential dangers. They also possess strong capabilities in reviewing and evaluating technical documentation. Furthermore, we have engaged multiple senior‑level technical experts and established comprehensive databases of specialized technical consultants.
    2) Current Status of Work at Our Company’s Safety Assessment Center
Our institute’s core business is surveying and design. The Safety Assessment Center primarily provides safety consulting services to chemical enterprises and to clients for whom our institute has already undertaken design projects, while also offering safety advisory services to chemical industrial parks. Our services encompass preliminary safety assessments, safety acceptance evaluations, safety facility design, blast‑resistance calculations, external safety protection distance determinations, initial process feasibility studies, emergency response plans, trial‑production schemes, and safety‑design diagnostics, among others. We have successively undertaken the following assignments: the safety acceptance review for Hunan Zhonglan New Materials Technology Co., Ltd.’s 2,000‑ton‑per‑year LiPF6 project; the safety acceptance review for Yueyang Furui Materials Technology Co., Ltd.’s Phase I 5,000‑ton‑per‑year fine‑chemical new‑materials construction project; the preliminary safety assessment report for Yueyang Changde New Materials Co., Ltd.’s 60,000‑ton‑per‑year chemical‑new‑materials downstream‑chain expansion project; the preliminary safety assessment report for Hunan Songyuan Lide Fragrance Co., Ltd.’s natural‑base materials and skincare products project (Phase I); the process safety and reliability justification reports for Yueyang Chencen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.’s annual production of 10.5 tons of peptide drug side chain LK0048, 2.59 tons of peptide drug side chain LK0053, and 3.8 tons of peptide drug side chain LK0056; the process safety and reliability justification report for Hunan Binsheng New Materials Technology Co., Ltd.’s bisphenol F production process; the process safety and reliability justification report for Hunan Xiangzhong Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.’s 100 kg/year brexpiprazole production process; the explosion‑risk assessment report for the comprehensive building and central control tower of Hunan Xiangzhong Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.’s Phase I pharmaceutical API production base construction project; the explosion‑risk assessment for the control room of Zhangye Zhonggu Smart New Energy Co., Ltd.’s Zhangye green‑hydrogen‑to‑ammonia integrated demonstration project; the blast‑resistance evaluation report for the central control room of the Laguo Cu salt‑lake lithium mining and beneficiation project in Garuo County, Ngari Prefecture, Tibet, undertaken by Tibet Ali Laguo Resources Co., Ltd.; the external safety protection distance assessment report for liquid ammonia storage tanks prepared by Hunan Anchun High‑Tech Co., Ltd.; the safety‑design diagnostics conducted for Hunan Jiudian Hongyang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Air Products (Changsha) Co., Ltd., and Hunan Xiangwei Co., Ltd.; as well as safety‑evaluation and related services for numerous chemical industrial parks within the province, including those in Xinhuang, Xinhua, Yueyang, Linxiang, Hengyang Songmu, and Tongguan.
        3) Government security services undertaken recently
As a central state-owned enterprise, the company consistently and proactively fulfills its social responsibilities, providing professional safety‑related technical services to government agencies. While diligently executing its own projects, it also actively participates in safety‑focused initiatives organized by governments at all levels.
(1) The company currently has 38 experts appointed as hazardous‑chemical safety experts by the Hunan Provincial Emergency Management Department, and more than 20 experts appointed as experts by the Changsha Municipal Emergency Management Bureau. These experts are regularly seconded to participate in various safety inspections and technical support services organized by emergency management agencies, safety committees, and other relevant bodies.
(2) From 2022 to the present, I have successively participated in numerous major provincial- and municipal-level safety special projects.
The special rectification campaign on the safety of self-built residential buildings organized by the Hunan Provincial Department of Housing and Urban–Rural Development;
Expert services for hazard identification and classification under the special rectification campaign on industrial relocation of hazardous chemicals and safety risk prevention and control in chemical parks, organized by the Changsha Municipal Emergency Management Bureau;
The review and assessment work on the centralized management of safety risks associated with hazardous chemicals, organized by the Hunan Provincial Technology Center;
The Changsha Municipal Emergency Management Bureau’s Hazardous Chemicals Division is leading the Changsha Special Plan for the Spatial Planning of Hazardous Chemical Warehousing.
Meanwhile, it participated throughout the entire process in all supervisory and inspection activities under the three-year action plan for hazardous chemicals as deployed by the Provincial Emergency Management Department.
(3) In August 2025, the company actively collaborated with the Hazardous Chemicals Supervision Division of the Provincial Emergency Management Department to conduct a mid-term supervisory inspection on the implementation of key tasks related to hazardous chemicals for 2025. Hunan Chemical Design Institute Co., Ltd. mobilized experts from multiple disciplines—including planning, process engineering, equipment, and safety—to provide expert guidance and technical services to five prefecture-level cities: Changsha, Yueyang, Changde, Xiangtan, and Yiyang.
(4) The company consistently provides comprehensive technical services to chemical industrial parks, undertaking substantial technical support in areas such as park designation, re‑evaluation, and expansion or adjustment of park boundaries. It also offers think‑tank‑level advisory support to provincial departments including the Development and Reform Commission, the Department of Industry and Information Technology, and the Emergency Management Department. By proactively assuming responsibility and taking decisive action, the company earnestly fulfills its social responsibilities as a central state‑owned enterprise, with its efforts repeatedly receiving high recognition and favorable feedback from government authorities.
(5) Actively participates in the work of the Hunan Provincial Occupational Safety and Health Association and serves as a member of its board of directors.
4) Personnel, Hardware, and Software Development
(1) At present, our institute relocated in January 2021 to Floors 18–21 of the Nengjian Building in Dongtang. In addition to its full-time staff, the Safety Assessment Center leverages our institute’s extensive team of experts for technical support, maintaining a highly qualified technical workforce.
(2) Uphold continuous learning and training, and conduct regular training on new standards and codes.
(3) Following the acquisition of Nanjing Anyuan’s QRA quantitative analysis software, our institute invested heavily in December 2023 to procure DNV PHAST and Safeti3D software from the Norwegian Classification Society. As one of the few institutions in China equipped with these state-of-the-art safety‑analysis tools, we now have robust software and technical capabilities to conduct accident consequence simulations, personal and societal risk assessments, external safety distance calculations, blast‑resistance analyses, and other critical safety‑risk evaluations. This advanced computational infrastructure provides strong technical support for large‑scale, complex chemical projects as well as for comprehensive safety‑risk assessments of entire industrial parks.