Ministry of Industry and Trade completes policy on safe electricity use

Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Truong Thanh Hoai attended and chaired the conference. Also attending were representatives from the Ministry of National Defense, Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture and Environment , National Electricity System and Market Operation Company Limited (NSMO), Vietnam Electricity (EVN), power corporations; and a number of Departments of Industry and Trade. The conference was held in person and online.

Early completion of policy on safe electricity use

Speaking at the opening of the workshop, Deputy Minister Truong Thanh Hoai said: According to the assessment of electrical safety, every year there are many accidents due to unsafe electricity across the country, which greatly affect the economy and cause great damage to people and property. Although the electricity industry has had many activities to propagate and guide people in using electricity safely, people's awareness and perception of electrical safety is still very limited.

Deputy Minister Truong Thanh Hoai gave a speech at the workshop.

Carrying out the task of drafting legal documents according to the 2024 program, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has developed and submitted to the Prime Minister a draft of the National Program on Electrical Safety. This is a framework document to create a basis for localities to develop plans and allocate resources to implement related contents.

Deputy Minister Truong Thanh Hoai asked experts and agency representatives to focus on giving comments on: The level of conformity of the draft Decision with the new policies and guidelines of the Party, State and Government; the feasibility of the goals, solutions and resources for implementation; and the contents with different opinions that have not been satisfactorily explained.

Mr. Trinh Van Thuan - Deputy Director of the Department of Industrial Safety Techniques and Environment - Ministry of Industry and Trade.

At the workshop, Mr. Trinh Van Thuan - Deputy Director of the Department of Industrial Safety and Environment - Ministry of Industry and Trade - said: Up to this point, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has received 73/95 written comments from ministries, branches and localities. In addition, there are comments from EVN and power corporations.

" After receiving comments from the units, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has fully compiled all comments. Some contents have been included in the draft, and some contents have been explained, " said Mr. Trinh Van Thuan.

Commenting on the draft Decision, Mr. Vu An Tuan - Deputy Head of Safety Engineering Department, EVN - said that in the process of drafting the National Program on Electrical Safety, EVN closely coordinated with the Department of Safety Engineering and Industrial Environment. The Group fully participated in meetings and seminars and sent two official comments to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, these comments were basically incorporated into the draft.

To complete the draft Decision, Mr. Tuan requested further clarification of the contents related to implementation organization, electrical installation consultancy, training organization, development of criteria and assessment of electrical system safety... as well as the responsibility of the electricity seller.

Additional responsibilities of some ministries and agencies

Commenting on the draft, Mr. Nguyen Khanh Long, Deputy Director of the Department of Employment, Ministry of Home Affairs, emphasized: The most difficult problem is resources and funding.

Mr. Long pointed out the fact that previous national programs (such as the 2010-2021/2025 period) had no operating budget even though they were approved by the Prime Minister. For the program to be effective, Mr. Long suggested focusing on vulnerable groups in society, the target groups that national target programs often target, including people, households, and compatriots in rural, mountainous, and island areas, who must ensure their own electrical safety.

Regarding management work, Mr. Nguyen Khanh Long proposed adding the Ministry of Home Affairs to the coordination responsibility because jobs related to electrical safety are all in the group of jobs with strict requirements, requiring training and coaching.

" The program needs to research and include the responsibility of the People's Committee at the commune level in the implementation content, because the commune level is where people live, and is the "real extension" of the Central Government to the locality in the context of promoting decentralization and delegation of power " - the representative of the Ministry of Home Affairs proposed.

Conference scene.

Mr. Nguyen Khanh Long also proposed that instead of using funds to develop legal documents, the program should switch to supporting research to develop standards and regulations, and at the same time, must supplement investigation, statistics, and survey content to create mandatory inputs, build databases and apply technology in the spirit of Resolution 57 on digital transformation.

At the workshop, representatives of the electricity corporations: Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, the North, TKV, along with a number of ministries and branches... expressed basic agreement with the draft Decision after 3 receptions.

Concluding the workshop, Mr. Trinh Van Thuan, Deputy Director of the Department of Industrial Safety and Environment, said that representatives of ministries, branches and enterprises basically agreed and highly agreed with the draft content. Regarding some additional comments, the Ministry of Industry and Trade will continue to synthesize, research and supplement to complete the draft, submit to the Ministry's leaders for the Ministry's leaders to submit to the Government.

Source: https://moit.gov.vn/tin-tuc/su-dung-nang-luong-tiet-kiem-va-hieu-qua/bo-cong-thuong-hoan-thien-chinh-sach-ve-su-dung-dien-an-toan.html

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