Since the beginning of this year, the Bin Yang County Agriculture Machinery Department has further strengthened the supervision and management of agricultural machinery production safety, ensuring that agricultural machinery is safely, efficiently and effectively used in agricultural production. The department focuses on preventing mass-casualty accidents caused by agriculture machinery and consolidating three major defenses for agriculture machinery production safety. In the first half of the year, the county achieved the goal of zero agriculture machinery responsibility accidents, effectively eliminating rural road traffic accident hazards and ensuring the life and property safety of the general public. This provides security for increased agricultural efficiency and increased farmers' income.
Firstly, a work leading group for agriculture machinery production safety was established with the director as the group leader, the discipline inspection group leader and two deputy directors as deputy leaders, and the heads of each township's agriculture machinery groups and main leaders of secondary units as members. Responsibilities are clearly divided among individuals, providing a strong organizational guarantee for the 2010 agriculture machinery production safety work.
Secondly, early publicity, mobilization, organization, and action were ensured to solidly grasp this year's tractor annual inspection work. During the promotion and mobilization period, the county Agriculture Machinery Bureau promptly convened a meeting of all township agriculture machinery group leaders for deployment and arrangement. Twelve banner slogans were printed and hung at twelve major intersections throughout the county, and more than 6,000 annual inspection notices were delivered personally to tractor drivers. Each inspection and review point has designated personnel for second-level maintenance, providing quality service to operators. In the first half of this year, more than 3,120 tractors completed their annual inspections, and 332 new vehicles were registered, marking a new level compared to last year's annual inspection work.
Thirdly, adhering to the working principle of "safety first, prevention foremost, comprehensive management," focusing on accident prevention, the department earnestly grasps the agriculture machinery production safety work during various holidays. According to the characteristics of different holidays, the department further intensifies the education and publicity of agriculture machinery safety, especially in remote mountainous areas, transportation blind spots, extra-class roads, and rural schools where large numbers of operators and farmers gather. Face-to-face education and publicity are conducted with operators, reminding them that the braking system of tractors differs from that of cars; they must not illegally carry passengers and certainly should not engage in illegal passenger transport. Through organizing safety learning days for tractor drivers, rural residents are educated to enhance their self-protection awareness, not to ride tractors, and to improve the production safety awareness of both operators and farmers, ensuring agriculture machinery production safety. Three field inspection teams are organized to patrol and rectify, focusing on monitoring key areas such as the Chenping and Silong mountain townships, Wuling's Sicai section, Gantang's Badex section, Luli's Wanyao section, and Litang's Ouyang section. Serious violations and illegal activities such as illegal carrying of passengers by tractors, unlicensed driving, and uncertified operation in these areas are investigated. Responsibility is assigned to individuals, villages, and operators through the "three-staring" measures (staring at people, staring at vehicles, staring at roads). When necessary, joint actions with the county Public Security Traffic Police, Transportation, and Safety Supervision departments are conducted for comprehensive rectification to prevent mass-casualty agriculture machinery accidents. A duty system is maintained during holidays to ensure smooth communication channels for agriculture machinery production safety information. The county Agriculture Machinery Safety Supervision Station strengthens patrols, and once potential hazard accidents occur, they are reported according to regulations, and the emergency rescue plan is promptly activated to minimize losses.
Fourthly, a safety inspection and special rectification campaign is carried out on all tractors operating on extra-class roads, rural (village) roads, and machine cultivation roads throughout the county. The focus is on correcting and investigating serious violations such as illegal carrying of passengers by tractors, unlicensed operation, uncertified driving, and using tractors for illegal passenger transport. Through special rectifications, the number of tractors illegally carrying passengers and engaging in illegal passenger transport has significantly decreased, ensuring safe operation of all county agriculture machinery.
Fifthly, with the theme of "Promoting safety through publicity and governance, preventing accidents," taking advantage of the creation of a "Safe Agriculture Machinery" activity, the department carefully handles all tasks related to the Agriculture Machinery Safety Month. During this period, twelve promotional banners were hung, and over 5,000 materials were distributed. On the morning of June 18th, a safety day consultation event was held in front of the County Federation of Trade Unions building. Through distributing materials, answering questions on-site about agriculture machinery production safety knowledge and agricultural machinery issues, laws and regulations regarding agriculture machinery production safety and agriculture machinery knowledge were promoted. The "Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Agricultural Machinery Management Regulations" were explained, attracting many operators and passers-by to participate in the event. Meanwhile, two working groups were organized to conduct publicity in concentrated points of four towns: Luli, Xinwu, Xinqiao, and Litang, delivering agriculture machinery safety promotional booklets to operators, promoting typical cases of agriculture machinery, warning and educating a wide range of operators, thus enhancing the agriculture machinery production safety awareness of operators and farmers, improving the voluntary safety awareness and operational skills of agriculture machinery operators, reducing the occurrence of agriculture machinery accidents at the source, and promoting the stable improvement of the overall situation of agriculture machinery production safety in the county.
Sixthly, modern media such as radio, television, newspapers, and networks, as well as the Tractor Driver Safety Group, Agriculture Machinery Association, and Agriculture Machinery Socialized Service Organizations, are fully utilized to conduct diverse and rich agriculture machinery safety education and publicity activities. The importance of creating a "Safe Agriculture Machinery" is strongly promoted. Focusing on the "Ten Ones" (organizing one Safe Agriculture Machinery educational activity in each town/street, sending an initiative letter for creating Safe Agriculture Machinery to each operator; showing a Safe Agriculture Machinery education warning film to all operators and farmers; sending a set of Safe Agriculture Machinery promotional posters to each demonstration village; giving a Safe Agriculture Machinery knowledge manual to each agriculture machinery household; conducting a Safe Agriculture Machinery knowledge class in demonstration villages and primary/secondary schools; holding a Safe Agriculture Machinery award competition; arranging a Safe Agriculture Machinery consultation activity; signing a Safe Agriculture Machinery "Safety Commitment Letter" with each operator; conducting a Safe Agriculture Machinery safety consolation activity), the Five-Entry Project is promoted, and ten non-violation educations are carried out for tractor drivers. Through extensive and deep publicity and mobilization, the safety awareness of a wide range of farmers, agriculture machinery drivers, and rural middle school students is truly enhanced, creating a good atmosphere for the creation activity.
(Huang Bingjian)