Sékéli Escape Device Injuries Continued: No National Mandatory Standards

"Dangerous Escape Device" Report Review

During the "3·15" period this year, a report was made on the accidental use of an emergency escape device by Professor Zhou Hongxu, a master tutor of Qingdao Agricultural University. In Zhou’s opinion, the main cause of his serious injury was the Sekly TSQ-100/30-20 fire emergency escape device manufactured by Changzhou Saite Fire Equipment Co., Ltd., which should be used by the user during the fall process. The slow-down function did not work, so that when he tried it, he fell to the ground almost in a free-falling form, resulting in a comminuted fracture of the right heelbone, a lumbar L2, L3 compression fracture, and a fracture of the sternum.

Zhou Hongxu believes that the quality and safety of the Sekly TSQ-100/30-20 fire emergency escape device are flawed. First, the manufacturer did not produce according to the relevant national standards in the production of the specification, and the language was unknown, which caused obstacles to the use of consumers. Second, the emergency escape device did not meet the national standard's rate of decline and could not effectively protect the user. It is a quality problem. As a manufacturer, Scitech Fire Equipment Co., Ltd. shall bear the responsibility for product quality. Third, fire products are closely related to the safety of people's lives and property. The sales agent, Qingdao Zhengan Fire Protection Technology Co., Ltd. does not provide corresponding demonstrations and trainings for consumers on the use of the products. Should also bear responsibility.

At present, the product manufacturer Changzhou Saite Fire Equipment Co., Ltd., the general distributor Jiangsu Anju Security Technology Co., Ltd., and the sales party Qingdao Zhengan Fire Protection Technology Co., Ltd. and Zhou Hongxu have reached many consultations and communication, and have not reached a consensus resolution.

In response to the quality and safety issues of the Saikali emergency escape device and the market access conditions for related fire protection products, the reporter recently visited the quality supervision department, industry and commerce administrative department, fire department and industry experts and scholars, and related to emergency escape devices. National standards, product market access conditions, etc. are understood.

Suspected Kelly products do not qualify for market access

Fire-fighting products are public safety products and are directly related to the safety of people's lives and property.

On May 15, 2003, the Ministry of Public Security and the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine jointly issued the "Notice on Strengthening the Supervision and Administration of Fire Products Quality." The document clearly stipulates that: China's market access for fire protection products shall be subject to a mandatory product certification system and type approval. The system, which has not yet been incorporated into the above-mentioned system of fire control products, will temporarily adopt a mandatory inspection system. Domestic and foreign fire-fighting products and fire-fighting related products that meet the above market access rules are allowed to be sold and used in China. The quality information is uniformly issued by the Ministry of Public Security government website to the society. For fire safety products that already have national standards and industry standards, but have not yet been listed in the compulsory product certification list, they will be added to the compulsory product certification list in batches and implemented mandatory product certification systems. For fire-fighting products that have not yet been formulated with national standards or industry standards, fire-fighting product type approval systems have been adopted.

On August 13, 2012, the Ministry of Public Security, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, and the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine jointly issued the "Regulations on the Supervision and Administration of Fire Products" (Decree No. 122 of the Ministry of Public Security). In this document, the market access of fire products is made. Clearly defined. The third article states that: Fire-fighting products must comply with national standards; in the absence of national standards, they must meet industry standards. Where national or industry standards are not established, fire safety requirements shall be met and the requirements for the protection of human health, safety of personal and property, and corporate standards shall be met. Article 10 of the procedural regulations concerning the technical appraisal of fire-fighting products is that the production enterprise submits a written entrustment to the technical appraisal agency for fire-fighting products and provides relevant documents and information. Where the documentation has been verified to meet the requirements, the fire protection product technical appraisal agency organizes the implementation of the fire product type inspection and factory inspection in accordance with the fire safety requirements and relevant regulations; if the fire protection product meets the fire safety requirements, the technical appraisal agency shall accept the entrustment. 90 days from the date of the issuance of fire product technical appraisal certificates, and report the relevant information on firefighting products to the Fire Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security.

The emergency evacuation product has not yet been included in the compulsory certification and type approval product catalog, and the mandatory inspection system or the relevant technology appraisal of market access prescribed by the government should be adopted. After consulting the relevant industry experts, this reporter learned that the implementation procedure of this system is: the application enterprise submits an application for inspection to the National Fire Protection Product Quality Supervision and Inspection Center designated by the Fire Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, and the provincial-level public security fire department of the company where the application is located is applied. Samples shall be sealed and sent to the designated national firefighting product quality supervision and inspection center for inspection. The products subject to compulsory inspection have obtained the qualified type inspection report issued by the National Inspection Center, and are submitted to the Fire Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security by the designated national fire product quality supervision and inspection center. The market access information is issued by the China Fire Protection Product Information Network. Products that exceed the validity period of the inspection report must be re-enforced. The validity of the inspection report is generally 3 years.

Does Sekali emergency escape device have legal market access qualification?

The reporter called Changzhou Saite Fire Equipment Co., Ltd. to do relevant understanding on issues such as enterprise quality assurance ability, product production execution standards, and consumers' questions. Saite fire equipment company does not want to respond to reporters' questions positively, claiming that all problems were solved by the total distributor Jiangsu. Yan Zhenjie, deputy general manager of Anju Security Technology Company, answered. After the reporter called Yan Zhenjie of Jiangsu Anju Security Technology Company, Yan Zhenjie said that the problem of the production enterprise could not be answered. After several times, the reporter contacted Dorset fire equipment company and was evaded.

The reporter got a product test report issued by Jiangsu Anju Security Company to Zhou Hongxu about the Sekali emergency escape device. After confirmation with Yan Zhenjie, the report was indeed provided by Saite Fire Equipment Company.

This test report numbered NO.Zb201150334 is issued by the National Fire Equipment Quality Supervision and Inspection Center. The acceptance date is October 10, 2011. The inspection category is commissioned inspection. The product type is TSQ-100/30-20 fire emergency escape device. Based on Q/XFZB002-2011 Fire Emergency Escape Device.

When asked by the reporter how the total sales agent of Sekeli Escape Co., Ltd. judged whether this fire-fighting product had legal market access qualifications, Yan Zhenjie said: “This product has an inspection report issued by the national authoritative department and we think it is a qualified product. Yan Zhenjie also said that

Can this commissioned inspection be used as a proof of market access for the Sekelli emergency escape device ?

After the reporter got in touch with the National Fire Equipment Quality Supervision and Inspection Center (Shanghai) business unit, the following reply was obtained: The commission inspection was only responsible to the commissioning party. The commissioner examined what items the inspection center provided data for that project, not the market criterion. Into the certification document. Judging whether the fire-fighting products are qualified for market access, we should see whether they have a type report, and the type inspection report is “qualified” in the conclusion is a legal market access certificate.

Obviously, according to the provisions of the above two documents, combined with the interpretation of the state authority supervision and inspection department, the Seckel emergency evacuation device alone can not prove that it has legal market access qualifications.

The reporter conducted an enquiries on the China Fire Protection Product Information Network. The JSH-10/25-30 lifesaving descending device, XHZLC40 fire filter self-rescue breathing apparatus, and TSS-20/8.5 fire escape rope manufactured by Saite Fire Equipment Co., Ltd. were publicized. In addition, the TSQ-100/30-20 emergency escape device has no public information.

Sekali did not implement the national mandatory standards

The "Product Quality Law" stipulates that "industrial products that may jeopardize human health, personal and property safety must meet national and industry standards for the protection of human health and personal and property safety." The "Fire Protection Law" stipulates that "fire products must comply with national standards. If there is no national standard, it must comply with industry standards. It is forbidden to produce, sell, and use unqualified fire-fighting products and fire-fighting products that the country has ordered to phase out."

For fire escape evacuation products, there are specifications in industry standards and national standards.

On January 29, 2003, the Ministry of Public Security issued the industry standard GA-413-2003 "Life Saving Descending Recessing Device" to regulate the slow-down life-saving products. The standard specifies the falling speed range of "0.16m/s ~ 1.5m. /s" This article is mandatory.

In October 2008, the National Standardization Management Committee issued the mandatory national standard GB21976.1-2008 "Building Fire Escape Equipment for Refuge Part 1: Guidelines for Equipping". The national standard stipulated that the emergency evacuation device should be ≤ 15 meters in height. The falling speed is "0.16m/s to 1.5m/s". The TSQ-100/30-20 emergency escape product produced by Saite Fire Equipment Co., Ltd. has a height of 20 meters. Professor Zhou received a 30-meter product.

In June 2012, the Standardization Administration of the People's Republic of China issued GB21976.2-GB21976.7 National Standard for Building Fire Escape Equipment, including escape evacuation devices, escape ladders, escape slides, emergency escape devices, escape ropes, and filters. Fire-fighting self-rescue breathing apparatus and other products have defined mandatory national standards.

In the mandatory national standard GB21976.5-2012 "Building fire escape refuge equipment - Part 5: Emergency escape device", the technical requirements for the emergency escape device are clearly defined, which are clearly defined in the "declining speed" item, " The emergency escape device with manual speed regulation function, when the user does not perform any speed regulation operation, the speed of fall should be 0.16m/s~1.5m/s."

Professor Zhou described himself as falling almost free-falling, resulting in serious physical injuries.

The state encourages enterprises to formulate corporate standards that are stricter than national standards or industry standards and apply them within the company. In other words, corporate standards must be stricter than national standards and industry standards before they can be implemented.

In the inspection report provided by the company, its inspection is based on the company's standards, and it is particularly noteworthy that both the industry standard and the mandatory national standard strictly regulate the "decrease speed" section, and both have made "0.16m/ "S ~ 1.5m / s" strict rules, but in the commission inspection report provided by Saite fire equipment company, there is no "decrease speed" test data.

In the interview, Yan Zhenjie, the general distributor, told reporters: “In 2008, the country made a mandatory national standard, but it has not been implemented, so companies are doing their own standards.”

According to Zhou Hongxu’s recording to reporters, Xu Jianwei, head of Saite Company, said in a communication that “Now these products are not implemented according to national standards, so we have no responsibility.”

In the mandatory national standards, the emergency escape device is a “one-time use escape device with the user's own weight falling at a certain speed and has a brake function.” In the product description of Saite Fire Equipment Co., Ltd., there are signs. The indication of “can be used back and forth” indicates that the product does not indicate that the product is for one-time use, nor does it indicate the number of years the product can be used. This does not comply with the relevant national standards and there are huge hidden dangers.

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