Gwangju City Establishes Disaster Safety Master Plan... Selects and Implements Policy Tasks

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 30th that it has completed the research project for the mid- to long-term roadmap, the ‘Disaster Safety Master Plan Establishment,’ which has been promoted from August last year to this month, and selected 116 policy tasks across 19 categories to implement.

In response to the changing internal and external environment where various types of disasters have recently occurred, Gwangju City has discovered detailed mid- to long-term (2019?2028) implementation tasks to systematically and efficiently manage disaster safety and make it the safest city nationwide.

The Gwangju Disaster Safety Master Plan is composed of the vision of ‘a city where citizens are happy through disaster and accident prevention’ and the goal of ‘creating a safe environment by minimizing damage from disasters and accidents and strengthening disaster response capabilities,’ with five major promotion strategies to execute this.

The five major promotion strategies are ▲ Establishing a sustainable disaster safety management system ▲ Building a healthy safety city with participation from all citizens ▲ Establishing a disaster management system for vulnerable groups ▲ Strengthening a collaboration-centered disaster response system ▲ Enhancing on-site disaster response capabilities.

Additionally, 116 tasks across 19 categories were selected as detailed mid- to long-term implementation plans. Among them, the key promotion tasks include 79 tasks in 11 categories such as fire, traffic safety, heatwaves, and infectious diseases, while general tasks include 37 tasks in 8 categories such as forest fires, elevator accidents, and lightning strikes, which will be promoted in phases.

Regarding this, the types of key promotion tasks and general tasks were selected by classifying them into policy groups 1, 2, and 3, considering priorities to solve risk issues derived through the research process such as ▲ Gwangju City risk assessment (citizen safety awareness survey and related agency questionnaire results) ▲ Gwangju City safety management plan ▲ On-site action manuals, as well as urgency, likelihood of occurrence, and scale of damage.

In particular, the detailed implementation plans according to the mid- to long-term promotion strategies reflect the ‘Safe and Comfortable Gwangju’ project, one of the five goals of the 7th local government’s pledges, including advanced transportation city and clean air Gwangju free from fine dust.

Furthermore, by analyzing core indicators and vulnerable indicators to improve the regional safety index, 96 core safety projects were selected by deriving implications from domestic and international cases for the re-certification of the WHO International Safe City.

Gwangju City plans to distribute the master plan for the selected policy tasks to related departments to ensure that detailed mid- to long-term implementation plans are meticulously established and managed.

Jung Min-gon, Director of the Citizen Safety Office of Gwangju City, said, “For Gwangju City to advance as a leading city, it is important to establish a foundation where every citizen can feel safe,” and added, “Taking this opportunity to prepare the Disaster Safety Master Plan, we will transform into a city with the highest level of safety and happiness for citizens nationwide.”

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