Yangju City Launches '2025 Intensive Safety Inspection'
98 Facilities in 15 Sectors to Be Inspected Over 61 Days
Eliminating Safety Blind Spots Through Public-Private Cooperation and Citizen Participation
Gyeonggi Yangju City (Mayor Kang Su-hyun) announced on the 8th that it will promote the '2025 Intensive Safety Inspection' to eliminate safety blind spots directly related to citizens' lives.
Yangju City stated that from the 14th to June 13th, a total of 98 facilities across 15 sectors will undergo intensive safety inspections over 61 days.
The inspection targets include karaoke rooms, amusement facilities, lodging facilities, apartment complexes, sewage treatment plants, medical institutions, and other areas closely related to citizens' daily lives, focusing on spaces where disasters and accidents are likely to occur.
This inspection emphasizes practical measures to directly 'discover' and eliminate risk factors by assuming various disaster types such as fires and collapses, rather than merely 'checking' the facilities.
The city intends to shift the paradigm to an execution-centered 'risk elimination inspection' rather than a mere verbal inspection.
To this end, Yangju City has formed the 'Intensive Safety Inspection Promotion Team' led by Vice Mayor Kim Jeong-min and will conduct thorough on-site inspections together with public-private joint experts in each sector.
Most notably, this inspection features a 'citizen participation safety inspection system.'
During the inspection period, 'self-safety inspection checklists' will be sequentially distributed to houses and multi-use facilities to encourage citizens to conduct self-inspections directly.
Along with this, a 'resident inspection request system' has been introduced, allowing citizens to directly request inspections for small-scale facilities or safety blind spots that are not easily noticeable.
The inspection results will be transparently disclosed on the 'Safety Management Integrated Disclosure System' and the 'Yangju City Hall website.'
Facilities violating laws will face strong administrative measures, and rapid repair and reinforcement actions will be taken for facilities identified as hazardous.
Kang Su-hyun, Mayor of Yangju City, said, "This intensive inspection is a core task to protect citizen safety and the starting point of a major safety transformation in the Republic of Korea. We will do our best to proactively inspect even invisible risks and create a Yangju where all citizens can feel safe."
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