Yongsan-gu Expands Disaster Safety Budget... Establishes Comprehensive Plan for Serious Accidents

Safety Management of Major Civic Disaster Facilities

Yongsan-gu, Seoul (District Mayor Park Hee-young) announced on the 11th that it has established the ‘2025 Yongsan-gu Comprehensive Plan for Major Accident Prevention’ and decided to implement various initiatives to prevent major accidents.

Special safety inspection at a high-risk workplace. Provided by Yongsan-gu.

Based on the vision of ‘Safety Made Today, Happiness Tomorrow in Yongsan,’ the district set goals of ‘Zero Major Accidents (ZERO)’ and ‘5% Reduction in Industrial Accidents.’

The main initiatives promoted by the district include strengthening the safety and health management system through ISO 45001 (Occupational Health and Safety Management System) certification, creating a safe working environment by identifying and improving hazardous and risky factors at workplaces, conducting safety and health education to enhance the capabilities of safety and health managers and workers, improving safety and health manuals for subcontracting, outsourcing, and consignment projects to raise the safety and health standards of suppliers, and operating and inspecting emergency response manuals for major accidents to ensure systematic crisis response.

Additionally, since January this year, small-scale workplaces with fewer than 50 employees have also been included under the scope of the Serious Accidents Punishment Act. Accordingly, the district plans to provide guidance on safety and health obligations for small workplaces and distribute promotional materials containing mandatory compliance items by industry and major accident cases.

The district will also strengthen safety management for over 40 major civic disaster target facilities such as daycare centers, nursing homes, roads, and bridges. To this end, it will establish an annual facility safety plan and continuously inspect compliance with safety and health obligations by securing safety and health personnel and budgets.

Since the enforcement of the Serious Accidents Punishment Act in 2022, the district has formed a dedicated team for major accident prevention and annually inspected and improved risk factors at district-affiliated workplaces under the guidance of professional safety managers and health managers. As a result, the industrial accident rate, which averaged 2.8% from 2019 to 2021, decreased by about 45% to 1.26% from 2022 to 2024.

Furthermore, the district invested approximately 4.47 billion KRW last year in major civic disaster target facilities to carry out repair and reinforcement work such as installing safety fences and fall-prevention railings. Through frequent safety inspections and evacuation drills conducted by professional personnel, major civic disasters were prevented, allowing residents to use the facilities safely.

Last year, the district spent a total of 46.4 billion KRW to prevent social and natural disasters such as road traffic accidents, infectious diseases, and fires. This year, the disaster safety budget will be expanded to 50.1 billion KRW to create an eco-friendly safety city that prioritizes the safety of residents and workers.

District Mayor Park Hee-young said, “We will thoroughly implement this year’s comprehensive plan for major accident prevention and concentrate all efforts on safety to create an environment where both residents and workers can live safely.”