Gangdong-gu, 2024 Intensive Safety Inspection

Gangdong-gu Joint Public-Private Intensive Safety Inspection of Major Public Facilities and Facilities at Risk of Safety Accidents
Enhancing Residents' Safety Awareness and Spreading Safety Culture through Resident Inspection Application System and Voluntary Safety Inspections

Kangdong-gu (Mayor Lee Su-hee) announced that it will conduct the "2024 Intensive Safety Inspection for the Great Safety Transition of Korea" targeting safety-vulnerable facilities within the district, where safety accidents are a concern, until June 21.

The "Great Safety Transition Intensive Safety Inspection" is a nationwide safety inspection conducted annually to ensure residents' safety and raise safety awareness by having the government, local governments, and private experts participate to preemptively identify and resolve risk factors by inspecting facilities where safety accidents are likely to occur.

Last year, as a result of the intensive safety inspection, risk factors were found in 44 out of 95 facilities, and safety accidents were prevented through on-site corrections, repairs, and reinforcements as follow-up measures.

This year's intensive safety inspection will focus on aging and high-risk facilities, including children's playgrounds, whose risk has recently increased, as well as welfare facilities and multi-use facilities, targeting a total of 87 locations.

The inspection areas include electricity, gas, fire safety, and architecture. Private experts in related fields and facility management officials will participate together to ensure professionalism and accountability in the inspection. At the same time, systematic history management from selecting inspection targets to follow-up measures will be implemented to enhance the effectiveness of the inspection.

In particular, the district operates a "Resident Inspection Request System" to encourage resident participation during safety inspections. When residents directly request facility inspections through channels such as the Safety Report Center, the district will determine whether the facility is subject to inspection and share the inspection results to raise residents' safety awareness.

Additionally, the district is also working to spread a culture of safety in daily life by distributing voluntary safety inspection checklists so that households and multi-use businesses can conduct safety inspections autonomously.

Mayor Lee Su-hee of Kangdong-gu said, "Through this intensive safety inspection, we will do our best to identify risk factors in daily life in advance so that residents can live safely," and added, "We ask for the active interest and participation of all residents in daily safety prevention that can protect themselves and their families."