Promotion of Digital Safety Management for Facilities with No Blind Spots
[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Min-young] The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced on the 30th that it plans to officially announce the "5th Basic Plan for the Safety and Maintenance of Facilities (2023~2027)" on the 31st.
The 5th Basic Plan for the Safety and Maintenance of Facilities was established after about nine months of research, followed by expert surveys, advisory meetings, and public hearings, taking into account changes in policy conditions such as facility aging, climate change, and digital transformation.
This basic plan sets the vision of "Implementing Digital Safety Management of Facilities without Blind Spots" and selects four major promotion strategies and 17 promotion tasks across fields such as systems, technology, and industry.
First, safety-vulnerable facilities such as senior centers and small-scale bridges will be designated as management targets under the "Special Act on the Safety and Maintenance of Facilities" to ensure thorough management. Safety inspections will be conducted, and based on the results, repairs and reinforcements will be carried out, focusing on the entire process of managing safety-vulnerable facilities and strengthening support.
In addition, for small-scale aging facilities, which previously only underwent visual inspections, it will be mandatory to conduct detailed safety inspections using equipment when rated safety grade D or E.
To reduce the burden on management entities, the timing of safety inspections (safety reviews) and performance evaluations (reviews of safety, durability, and usability) will be rationally adjusted to link and conduct the two tasks together.
Furthermore, the Korea Land Safety Management Institute, which is currently responsible for conducting detailed safety inspections on facilities such as bridges and tunnels (currently 148 facilities), will gradually open these inspections to private companies.
To improve the quality of safety inspections and create a healthy market environment, measures to improve low-price bidding and contracts will be prepared through collecting opinions from various sectors.
Measures to raise public awareness in preparation for natural disasters will also be promoted. To this end, pre-inspection items in inspection manuals for river bridges and embankments will be revised, and preventive inspection methods for each facility will be made into easy-to-understand content and distributed.
Additionally, to conduct seismic performance evaluations of facilities more thoroughly in preparation for earthquakes, the implementation guidelines in the manual will be subdivided according to the characteristics of individual facilities (bridges, tunnels, buildings, etc.).
Lee Sang-il, Director of Technical Safety Policy at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, said, "Through this 5th Basic Plan for the Safety and Maintenance of Facilities, we will ensure that facilities are used safely and for a long time while efficiently managing them by utilizing advanced technologies."
Meanwhile, detailed information on the 5th Basic Plan for the Safety and Maintenance of Facilities can be found on the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport website starting from the 31st.
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