The Ministry of Construction started a monitoring system of accidents in housing and public utilities

2020

Start of a system

On July 2, 2020 in Russia the monitoring system of accidents and incidents in housing and communal services industry is started. At first she earned in the Kaliningrad region, Yakutia, Nizhny Novgorod and from Sakhalin. A bit later the Moscow region, St. Petersburg and the Saratov region will be connected.

Since September 1 the project is going to be started in the normal mode through the whole country.  The Ministry of Construction noted that  the specified term is selected  not casually, and from a binding to a new heating season.

The Ministry of Construction started a monitoring system of accidents in housing and public utilities

A new system should become a part of automated information system Reform of housing and public utilities, and the housing and public utilities Fund will be her operator. In it the incidents which happened in heat water - gas - and power supply and also water disposal and operation of housing stock will be considered.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Ministry of Energy, executive authorities of regions, municipalities and the resource supplying organizations can be users and suppliers of data in a system.

Besides, the situational analytical center of power and housing and public utilities of the Moscow region", created by the Ministry of Energy at an initiative of the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Utilities of the Russian Federation was started on July 1, 2020. In this center information on complaints of inhabitants from all portals, social networks and also the addresses coming from citizens of Moscow area to EDDS of municipalities will gather and be processed. It will allow to analyze more precisely a status of objects of housing and public utilities and power and to reveal the most critical, to keep track of dynamics of accident rate on infrastructure facilities.

Earlier the Ministry of Construction claimed the uniform standard of providing information and classification of incidents on utility objects in a format of methodical recommendations that should allow to unify approach in regions what to consider accident and that simple technology failure, and to lead to obtaining more correct data on accident rate in the field of housing and public utilities.^[1]

Creation of a system

In the middle of May, 2020 it became known of creation in Russia of a single system of monitoring and control of elimination of accidents and incidents on objects of the housing and communal services (HCS). The Deputy Minister of Construction, Housing and Utilities of the Russian Federation Maxim Egorov told about project deadlines of TASS.

According to him, on July 1, 2020 the platform for monitoring of elimination of accidents on objects of housing and public utilities will be started in the test mode, and on September 1 it will begin the regular application across all Russia. The digital solution is developed by Fund of assistance to housing and communal services development.

Within development of a single digital platform monitoring of indicators of accident rate of objects of utility infrastructure is transferred to a digital format. It will allow to reflect more accurately incidents in objects of municipal services, to quickly react and connect necessary resources for elimination of effects.

For municipal services incidents on which elimination of effects leaves from 2nd to 24 hours are considered as incidents. If works on elimination of effects borrow more than a day, then they are qualified already as accidents.

In the middle of May, 2020 it was reported that the number of accidents and incidents on objects and networks of heat supply, water supply and water disposal for the past heating period was reduced by 8% in comparison with an indicator of year prescription. The number of incidents and accidents in the field of heat supply decreased almost by 6%, and in the field of water supply and water disposal – for 9%. At the same time Egorov noted that the wear of objects of housing and public utilities annually increases.

The most part of objects is already operated over 20 years, characterized by high degree of wear, low energy efficiency. Regions need to concentrate efforts on preparation for the next heating period on these objects — added the Deputy Minister of Construction, Housing and Utilities.[2]

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