Fire Line of Defense

In the summer of 2016, Zhang Senyan, a graduate student majoring in safety science and engineering at the 985 University, stepped into the gate of Jiangnan Linjiang Petrochemical Plant with a head full of regulatory provisions and the ideal of "preserving life with professionalism." From a rookie in the workplace who wore his safety helmet backwards to the independent HSE director of the group, in ten years, he collided with An Jianguo, a former electrician, and went from fighting each other to side by side with his "exiled" salted fish colleague Zhou Yang. The aftermath of the Tianjin Port explosion, the shock of the Xiangshui accident, the implementation of the new production safety law, the reform of the safety note system... In every industry wave, there is the persistence and struggle of grassroots safety personnel. The novel uses the real policies of the hazardous chemicals industry from 2016 to 2026 and major accidents at home and abroad as the timeline to restore the workplace ecology of a 300-person petrochemical plant. It describes the tension between safety managers and human relationships, production and the bottom line, and witnesses the career growth and industry inheritance of a generation of young people.