On December 24th, with the conclusion of the final session of the "Social Safety Capacity Enhancement Training Program" in Suzhou Industrial Park, the three-month "Public Safety Open Course" and grassroots safety "Winter Training" campaign successfully concluded. This training focused on enhancing the intrinsic safety level of the region. Through a series of diverse and substantive "Public Safety Open Courses," it vigorously propelled the "Year of Public Safety Literacy Enhancement" activities to greater depth and effectiveness, establishing a robust "safety firewall" for regional development.
This year has been designated the "Year of Public Safety Literacy Enhancement" for Suzhou Industrial Park. The Park released the "Implementation Opinions on Further Enhancing Public Safety Literacy," clearly defining 16 tasks across 5 key areas, with all relevant sectors fully launching the "Top Ten Safety Literacy Enhancement Projects." Currently, the entire Park is intensifying efforts in areas such as ideological guidance, education and training, safety publicity, emergency volunteering, and response capacity building. Through layered responsibility assignment and multi-dimensional innovation in measures, the Park is solidly advancing the public safety literacy enhancement project, striving to build a higher-level safe and resilient industrial park.
The training adopted an innovative dual-track model combining "online + offline" sessions and developed a systematic e-learning resource library, creating a safety learning platform accessible "anytime, anywhere." Data shows that offline intensive training covered over 500 core personnel, while cumulative online and offline training exceeded 8,000 participants, achieving full coverage of safety "key persons" across all functional zones, streets, and key industry sectors within the Park. "The curriculum includes both general knowledge and skills like fire safety, emergency evacuation, and hazard identification, as well as targeted explanations tailored to the specific risks of different sectors such as industrial enterprises, medical institutions, elderly care facilities, 'nine-small' venues, commercial buildings, and tourist attractions, providing customized prevention and control recommendations," said a relevant official from the Park's Emergency Management Bureau.
Serving as an important platform to test training effectiveness, the "Community Safety Comprehensive Skills Competition" was held simultaneously. In the hazard identification contest, community inspectors from various Park streets identified 236 potential hazards related to electrical safety, firefighting equipment, and e-bike management within 1.5 hours at practical sites, demonstrating solid skills. "Learning, applying, and being tested on the spot has been highly rewarding," remarked one corporate safety officer during the training, who consulted emergency experts on challenges encountered in actual work.
Since the beginning of this year, the Park has focused on building a professional training system covering core personnel development, universal education, and targeted skill reinforcement. This includes strengthening the cultivation of certified safety engineers, promoting regular safety education for all employees, enhancing practical operational capabilities for key positions, and exploring a layered, classified, and continuously deepening safety capacity building mechanism, forming a set of replicable and promotable best practices. Recently, the Park officially launched the "One-Minute Safety Guide" series resource library. Developed by experts organized by the Park Safety Committee Office, it covers practical scenarios like basic management, hazardous operations, and accident case studies, using easy-to-understand language to help personnel consolidate their learning outcomes during fragmented time outside formal training.
In strengthening professional training, the Park concurrently conducts multi-dimensional online and offline cultivation: it offers free online "Certified Safety Engineer Exam Preparation Series" to enterprise employees, and has organized 2 sessions of free offline pre-exam training by senior experts, training 446 participants cumulatively. To incentivize professional talent growth, the Park introduced supporting policies for "Two Officers One Engineer," providing rewards for those passing the certified safety engineer exam and including them in talent support systems covering residency, schooling, and housing. Furthermore, the Park continuously improved the record-keeping module of the "SIP Safety 360 System," guiding enterprises to implement routine training like three-level safety orientation for new hires and "five-minute safety reminders before/after shifts." It supported 12 industrial enterprises in establishing employee safety training sites open to the entire Park, effectively enhancing staff practical safety skills.
The Park Safety Operations Experience Center innovated the training model by developing free practical training courses for hazardous operations. Centered around four modules—safe operation knowledge, equipment and facility hands-on practice, hazard identification drills, and emergency rescue exercises—the course guides participants to master key safety points for hazardous operations through immersive "scenario + role + workflow" experiences. Since its launch in late June, the course has trained 207 individuals, identified 405 various issues, and proposed 391 improvement suggestions, receiving widespread praise from participating organizations and trainees.
Games like throwing arrows into a pot and beanbag toss cleverly integrated key safety knowledge, becoming a source of joy for children; the "Drunk Driving Simulation Experience" allowed parents and children to intuitively understand the dangers of drunk driving through firsthand sensation; the "Safety Escape Room" realistically simulated fire scenarios, recreating the tense atmosphere of escaping a blaze; "Fire Equipment Display and Training" enabled residents to progress from "recognizing" to "using" equipment, enhancing household disaster preparedness... Recently, the Suzhou Industrial Park's "Mobile Safety Experience Center" visited locations like the North Plaza of the Olympic Sports Centre. This educational activity, balancing fun and knowledge, attracted thousands of residents, especially many parent-child families.
This year, the Park's Emergency Management Bureau has continued to deepen the "Small Hand Leads Big Hand" series, creating the "Mobile Safety Experience Center" and conducting the "Five Entries" activities. In the "Entry into Schools" series, the cartoon mascot "Yuan Xiao'an" acted as a "safety ambassador," bringing carefully designed experience projects and fun safety games to schools like Xinghui School and Dongshahu Primary School. Using an edutainment "teaching + experience" model, it delivered vivid and interesting safety education lessons to over a thousand students. "This immersive learning model is not only popular with children but also influences families through the children, truly achieving the goal of 'educating one child, driving one family, influencing the whole society'," said a relevant official from the Park Emergency Management Bureau.
The "Mobile Safety Experience Center" is a vivid example of the Park's innovative safety publicity and education efforts. The Park consistently treats safety publicity and education as the "main engine" for enhancing public safety literacy, continuously building a publicity and education system characterized by "full-scenario coverage, multi-dimensional penetration, and immersive experience." This promotes the effective transformation of safety knowledge from "passive reception" to "active internalization" and emergency skills from "awareness and understanding" to "proficient mastery." Building on the foundation of fully utilizing the publicity and education matrix of "1 cultural experience hall + 10 training centers + 22 practical training bases," the Park seized key moments like "Work Safety Month" and "Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Publicity Week" to launch a series of high-profile, themed campaigns.
The community is the smallest governance unit and the most grassroots emergency force. How to activate the emergency capabilities of these "smallest units"? Taking Wen Hui Yuan community in Xietang Street as an example, the community widely recruited enthusiastic residents, property management staff, retired professionals, and others to join the community emergency volunteer backbone team. It regularly conducts emergency drills and volunteer activities to enhance the professional competence and practical skills of grassroots volunteers, creating a micro emergency mutual aid volunteer service system within the community and bridging the "last meter" of emergency response.
Using individual communities and enterprises as leverage points, the Park relies on the "extensive network" of grassroots governance to recruit emergency volunteers from all walks of life, mobilizing social forces for deep participation, and striving to build a professional initial response team that can be "deployed promptly, rush to the front line, and succeed in operations"—the "Emergency First Responder" team. To become an "Emergency First Responder," individuals must undergo rigorous standardized training combining "online theoretical learning + offline practical drills," mastering core skills such as on-site guidance, self-rescue and mutual aid, and initial response. They must be capable of arriving first at the scene during the golden window after an incident occurs, organizing evacuation, and controlling the situation... acting as a critical link between professional rescue teams and affected individuals.
To date, the Park has successfully trained and certified 770 qualified "Emergency First Responders." They act like "safety sentinels" dispersed throughout communities, enterprises, and public spaces, providing solid human resource support for building a safe and resilient Park. Building on this, using the Work Safety Alliance as a key tool, the Park vigorously implements the "Emergency Guardian" plan, focusing on cultivating a "seed" force proficient in core emergency skills, capable of rapid response in the initial stages of incidents, and effective in organizing on-site处置. This deepens regional coordination and neighborhood mutual aid among enterprises, promoting resource sharing and capability complementarity. Over 50 teams with more than 300 members have been established, preliminarily forming an efficient linkage mechanism for a "15-minute emergency response circle," significantly enhancing the effectiveness of localized initial response.
From "Emergency First Responders" to "Emergency Guardians," the Park is gradually constructing a multi-level, broadly covered emergency volunteer service system, fostering a social atmosphere where "everyone values safety and everyone can respond." This is evident in activities like the "Jinji Lake Lecture Hall: Grassroots Safety Talks," where 10 outstanding frontline representatives took the stage. Among them were community grid members who meticulously identified hazards, property security guards who successfully handled initial fires, and individual business owners who managed shop safety standards, all sharing their insights and experiences on safety work.
Safety is the cornerstone of development and the baseline of people's livelihoods. Every safety officer, grid member, and volunteer is an indispensable force in building a safe Park. A relevant official from the Park Emergency Management Bureau stated that in the future, the Park will continue to optimize publicity platforms and training models, improve volunteer service and response mechanisms, consolidate and deepen the achievements in public safety literacy enhancement, and promote the internalization of safety concepts into hearts and minds and their externalization into actions, laying a solid foundation for building a higher-level safe and resilient industrial park.