The period around the Dragon Boat Festival holiday is often a high-incidence period for workplace safety accidents. Employees are prone to lax thinking and rushing to meet deadlines before the holiday, and after the holiday, they face the problem of not fully recovering their state. For EHS managers, safety management during holidays is not only a test of the system, but also a comprehensive examination of on-site execution.
At the same time, the Dragon Boat Festival falls in early summer, when high temperatures and flood season risks overlap. Outdoor operations and confined space operations face multiple threats such as heatstroke, oxygen deficiency, and electric shock. This complex environmental factor requires safety managers to conduct special risk inspections in advance and formulate targeted emergency plans to prevent various emergencies.
In complex and changing working environments, personal protective equipment is the last line of defense to protect employees. However, as temperatures rise, employees often feel resistant due to stuffiness, leading to irregular wearing of protective equipment. This requires managers to strengthen on-site supervision while paying attention to the comfort and suitability of protective equipment.
For different work scenarios, the selection and wearing of protective equipment need to be more refined. For example, in workshops involving dust or volatile gases, the fit check of respiratory protective equipment must be strictly supervised to ensure the effectiveness of filter elements. In areas with high noise and frequent cross operations, the compatible wearing of hearing protection and head protection is particularly critical to avoid protection failure due to equipment conflicts.
Before a holiday shutdown or restart, organizations should review PPE inventories, check quantities, inspect for damage or deterioration, and remove expired or unserviceable items. This helps ensure that suitable equipment is available when operations resume.
In addition, it is also necessary to conduct a special training during the pre-holiday safety meeting. By reviewing typical accident cases and practical drills on correctly wearing protective equipment, employees' safety awareness can be effectively awakened, overcoming the paralysis of thought during holidays.
Effective safety management requires continuous attention. During periods such as the Dragon Boat Festival holiday and summer heat, companies should combine on-site risk controls with effective PPE management to protect employees' health and safety.
News source:Ministry of Emergency Management of the People's Republic of China, 2026-06-17: "2026 Dragon Boat Festival Holiday Safety Tips 2026-06-17 16:19". This article only interprets PPE knowledge based on public news topics.
