The Southern China Energy Regulatory Office, in partnership with Shenzhen Energy Group, conducted a special campaign on the Provisions on the Criteria for Determining Major Electricity Accident Hazards and the Supervision and Management of Their Control (Order No. 41) for power generation enterprises in Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hainan through an online live broadcast. More than 440 power generation enterprises and nearly 10,000 employees watched the broadcast.
The campaign aligned with the 2026 National “Work Safety Month” activities and the three-year action plan for advancing fundamental safety improvements in the energy and electricity system, themed “Everyone Talks About Safety, Everyone Can Respond to Emergencies — Investigate and Address Risks and Hidden Hazards.” The campaign systematically interpreted the background, key provisions, and legal responsibilities of Order No. 41, and used typical cases of personal injury and equipment accidents in the power sector both domestically and internationally in recent years to analyze the 10 categories and 49 items of criteria for determining major electricity accident hazards and inspection guidelines stipulated in the document, from the perspectives of power generation project construction and operation.
The regulatory authority clarified the statutory duties and legal liabilities of power generation enterprises and their employees in hazard investigation and control, and put forward regulatory requirements in areas such as strengthening learning and training, conducting comprehensive hazard inspections, and establishing sound long-term mechanisms, aiming to address the acute issues of enterprises and employees being “unable to distinguish hazards, non-standard rectification, and delayed reporting,” thereby effectively enhancing the capacity for precise identification, scientific determination, and closed-loop management of major electricity accident hazards.
The Southern China Energy Regulatory Office will, in the next step, join forces with local power management departments to further promote the implementation and inspection of Order No. 41, urge power enterprises to continuously deepen the dual-prevention mechanism, and improve the regular mechanism for the dynamic elimination of major accident hazards, resolutely guarding the bottom line against major and catastrophic accidents, and supporting the construction of a new energy system in the southern region with high-level safety.