What measures are taken to ensure project quality during project construction?

The final month of 2020! Ensure the final quality and safety check and ensure the payment of wages to migrant workers! - Industrial Insurance Network

We have officially entered the last month of 2020. Unlike the stable market conditions in other industries, the quality and safety management of the construction industry and the guarantee of wage payment for migrant workers appear to be more severe. As the end of the year approaches, various construction projects across the country have entered the final stage. In order to successfully achieve the established construction progress goals and achieve full-year performance results, most construction companies will choose to work overtime at this time point to catch up with the construction deadline.

However, objectively, the "year-end rush to work" poses a great threat to the quality of construction projects and construction safety production. The year-end node is also a period when various quality and safety accidents occur frequently.

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Currenting or rushing work is not scientifically rational in itself. Project construction has its own schedule. Once the construction period is arbitrarily compressed and blindly rushes or rushes work, it will inevitably The quality of construction projects and construction specifications and standards are out of control, laying great quality and safety risks for project construction.

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Winter construction faces relatively complex objective weather factors, such as low temperature, heavy snow, and freezing rain, which bring great difficulties to both construction personnel and construction machinery operations, and there are high risks. construction safety risks. Take the freezing, freezing and windy weather that occurred in Northeast China and Inner Mongolia on November 19 this year as an example. The heavy snow and freezing rain caused the outage of many substations in Changchun and Siping. More than 500,000 households were without power. Urban traffic was also greatly affected. Citizens only had to Able to travel on foot. When constructing in such a harsh weather environment, the construction safety risks can be imagined.

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Construction managers such as owners or general contractors focus their work on the progress of the construction period, ignore quality and safety management, and even modify the project progress without authorization, regardless of relevant regulations. design, causing serious quality and safety hazards.

In addition, due to the seasonal characteristics of the construction industry's operating performance, the end of the year is not only the peak period for the collection of accounts receivable for most construction companies, but also a period of frequent bad debt collections and delayed payments of various types. On the one hand, this increases the pressure on the financial operation of construction companies, which can easily lead to the risk of the construction company's capital chain breaking, threatening the production and development of the company; on the other hand, the construction company's collection of bad debts and delayed payments will in turn affect the general contractor and subcontracting units. A chain of project payment debts was formed with the labor service companies, and the pressure was transferred layer by layer, and finally fell on the majority of migrant workers, resulting in the problem of wage arrears for migrant workers. Therefore, ensuring project payment and wage payment to migrant workers are also the focus of construction market supervision during this period.

1. Maintain the final quality and safety barrier

At the end of each year, local construction authorities mainly strengthen market administrative supervision to prevent and reduce various project quality and safety risks, such as temporary Surprises, random inspections, work suspension penalties, etc. However, on the one hand, temporary regulatory measures cannot make up for the gap in the long-term regulatory mechanism; on the other hand, regulatory penalties cannot effectively deter relevant entities.

The national winter construction project quality and safety assurance work in 2020 is different from the single administrative supervision method in previous years, and further promotes the construction of a long-term project quality and safety assurance mechanism, using the dual means of administrative supervision and mechanism guarantee to effectively ensure Construction project quality and construction safety production.

In terms of administrative supervision

This time, 10 departments including the Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of Shandong Province jointly issued the "Several Opinions on Further Strengthening the Safety Production Work in Housing Construction and Municipal Engineering Construction" as the For example, the punishment for relevant non-standard subject behavior has been strengthened, using "upper limit", "top box" and "severe" as the key words for punishment, effectively implementing the primary responsibility of the construction unit and the main responsibility of the construction unit, standardizing the construction market behavior, thereby ensuring Construction project quality and safety.

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Upper limit. If construction safety is affected by issues such as the selection of construction teams, procurement of materials, allocation of project funds, construction period requirements, etc., the legal representative of the construction unit and the project leader must be seriously held accountable. Any major hidden dangers or safety accidents that occur will be handled in accordance with the law. Penalties will be imposed according to the upper limit of the processing regulations.

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Be serious.

Construction safety supervision responsibilities must be clarified through the supervision entrustment contract. The supervision unit must carefully review the qualifications of the units entering the site and the qualifications of personnel, strictly review whether the safety technical measures or special construction plans in the construction organization design comply with the mandatory standards for engineering construction, and do it as required. Stand by, inspect and supervise acceptance, and promptly urge rectification or report if potential safety hazards are discovered. Those who fail to fulfill their responsibilities will be severely punished in accordance with the law.

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Top grid. Anyone who is found to be constructing without obtaining a construction permit in accordance with the law will be ordered to stop the work immediately, notify the relevant units to stop water supply and power supply, and impose maximum penalties on the construction unit and relevant participating units in accordance with the law; severely crack down on dismemberment, subcontracting, illegal subcontracting, and encirclement. Illegal activities such as bidding-for-bidding and affiliated lending qualifications will be promptly identified and punished according to the law.

Long-term guarantee mechanism

In recent years, construction authorities in various regions have paid increasing attention to the effective application of insurance mechanisms in the field of quality and safety assurance.

Production safety liability insurance

Shandong Province has piloted the mandatory implementation of production safety liability insurance in high-risk industries in the province since 2017. This time, 10 departments jointly issued a document to improve and improve the long-term The management mechanism further proposes “expanding the coverage of construction safety production liability insurance”. Construction companies that have had construction safety accidents within three years, been subject to administrative penalties for construction safety, or have had the same project suspended more than two times in a row due to major safety hazards within one year, are required to purchase safety production liability insurance.

IDI project quality latent defects insurance

Since Shanghai took the lead in piloting the IDI project quality latent defects insurance system in 2012, insurance and TIS quality risk management services have increasingly played a role in the field of construction project quality assurance. plays an important role and begins to build a new engineering quality assurance system. In 2020, Chengdu City has successively issued the "Implementation Measures for the Pilot Project of Latent Defects Insurance for Residential Project Quality", "Implementation Rules for Latent Defects Insurance for Residential Project Quality in Chengdu (Trial)", and "About the Implementation of Project Quality Insurance Pilot Project for Latent Defect Quality Insurance for Residential Projects". "Notice on Risk Management Work" are three important documents that strongly promote the application and implementation of latent defect insurance in IDI project quality.

In November 2020, Chengdu’s first IDI project quality latent defect insurance project was officially signed and completed, becoming the third city in China after Shanghai and Beijing to promote the implementation of quality insurance in residential construction projects, further accelerating Promotion and application of my country's new engineering quality assurance system.

2. Guaranteeing project funds and wage payment to migrant workers

On November 5, 2020, the Office of the Leading Group of the State Council for the Eradication of Wage Arrears for Migrant Workers issued the "On Carrying out the Eradication of Wages Arrears for Migrant Workers in Winter" "Notice of Special Action" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice"), decided to organize a nationwide winter special action to eradicate wage arrears from November 6, 2020 to before the Spring Festival of 2021. The document proposes to use the "Regulations on Guaranteeing the Wage Payment of Migrant Workers" as a starting point to conduct key investigations and rectifications on wage arrears of migrant workers in the field of engineering construction. The investigation contents include:

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Investigate the employer's payment of wages to migrant workers in full and on time in accordance with the law;

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Approval management, fund supervision and management of government-invested engineering projects, state-owned enterprise projects and various government-social capital cooperation projects The project funds (labor costs) are paid in full and on time;

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In the field of engineering construction, special accounts for wages of migrant workers are implemented, general contracting units pay wages on behalf of construction workers, and real-name management of migrant workers is implemented. The storage of wage deposits, publicity of rights protection information, etc. to ensure the wage payment system;

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Handle illegal acts of wage arrears to migrant workers in accordance with the law, and severely crack down on the crime of refusing to pay labor remuneration;

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Implementation of credit punishment for illegal acts of wage arrears in accordance with laws and regulations;

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Regarding the root cause of dereliction of duty and dereliction of duty in wage arrears Investigate liability in accordance with laws and regulations.

The "Notice" also proposes that if the enterprise is temporarily unable to solve the arrears of wages or the business owner evades the arrears of wages, it must promptly use the wage deposit, emergency working capital or other channels to raise funds to pay off the arrears of wages or advance the part Wages (basic living expenses) to help migrant workers whose wages are in arrears solve their temporary living difficulties and ensure social stability.

At present, various localities have responded to the central government’s call and actively carried out winter wage arrears rectification activities. For example, Beijing has launched a winter special action to unify law enforcement day activities, and comprehensively launched a winter special action to eradicate wage arrears; Tianjin Housing and Urban and Rural Affairs The Construction Committee organized a special account for migrant workers’ wages and a deployment meeting for the winter special action to eradicate wage arrears; Hunan Province issued the “Hunan Province 2020 100-Day Winter Special Action Plan to Eliminate Wage Arrears”, etc.

In addition, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development issued the "Notice on Implementing the Primary Responsibility of Construction Units for Project Quality" on September 23, 2020, which proposed that it is necessary to accurately grasp the connotation of implementing the primary responsibility of construction units for project quality and require the implementation of construction process settlement. The construction unit shall provide the construction unit with a payment guarantee for the project payment. There is no doubt that this has a positive effect on ensuring the payment of wages to migrant workers.

In response to the notice requirements of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, in recent days, various localities have actively implemented the primary responsibility of construction units for project quality in specific construction management work. For example, 10 departments in Shandong Province jointly issued the "On Further Strengthening the Construction of Housing Construction and Municipal Engineering" "Several Opinions on Safety Production Work", the document lists "highlighting the primary responsibility of the construction unit" separately, and clearly stipulates that "any construction safety is affected by the allocation of project funds, the legal representative of the construction unit and the project leader must be seriously investigated for their responsibilities." , This also promotes the construction unit's performance of project payment and is conducive to ensuring the year-end project payment and migrant workers' wage payment.

The end of the year has always been a time when various quality and safety accidents, project payment and migrant workers' payment problems occur frequently. Only by ensuring the final project quality and safety check, implementing construction units' project payment responsibilities, and ensuring the payment of wages to migrant workers can construction industry personnel, construction market supervisors, and housing construction consumers, including the majority of migrant workers, live with peace of mind. Year, rest assured year.