Fire Agency Establishes and Promotes 17 Tasks in 3 Major Areas Including Public Service and Work Methods

추진 of Innovative Tasks to Realize a 'Government by the People'

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] The National Fire Agency announced on the 19th that it will establish and promote the '2021 National Fire Agency Government Innovation Implementation Plan' to realize a 'government owned by the people.' This year's implementation plan consists of 17 tasks across three major areas: △Participation and Cooperation △Public Service △Work Methods.

The National Fire Agency will form a citizen participation evaluation group to assess excellent safety management companies and meritorious persons from the public's perspective for the Korea Safety Awards. Additionally, during the Central Integrated Fire Equipment Evaluation Fair, citizens will be given opportunities to directly handle and experience fire equipment, and their opinions will be collected and reflected in fire policies.

Furthermore, citizens will be able to ride along in fire trucks to experience conditions such as difficulties in access caused by illegal parking, and their opinions from the public's standpoint will be gathered and incorporated into policies. In preparation for a super-aged society, retired fire officials will visit fire-vulnerable groups such as elderly living alone and national merit recipients to install residential fire safety facilities and provide fire prevention education. This tailored safety measure, called the 'Fire-Vulnerable Silver Generation Safety Keeper' policy, aims to eliminate safety blind spots in local communities.

The policy for discovering and improving accident-prone and hazardous areas involves identifying locations where safety accidents have occurred in the past, analyzing the causes of these accidents, and working with local governments and regional councils to address the issues together. Last year, improvements were made at 244 sites, including the installation of safety decks in fall-risk areas and the maintenance of valley water depths. These efforts were recognized as an excellent government innovation case and received a presidential citation.

Moreover, nine tasks have been selected for research projects to establish scientific fire policies through big data analysis. Based on the results of these research projects, the agency plans to predict fire spread information to deploy appropriate firefighting personnel or analyze the possibility of casualties to proactively respond to disasters, thereby enhancing the objectivity and reliability of firefighting operations.

In addition to the main tasks, the National Fire Agency continues to promote policies for internal organizational culture innovation. To foster a fair and healthy organizational culture, it plans to identify and resolve unreasonable practices across three areas: personnel, audits, and organizational communication. The agency will form an innovation planning team mainly composed of firefighters who wish to participate, hold regional briefings, and collect opinions to build consensus on fire policies.

Shin Yeol-woo, Commissioner of the National Fire Agency, stated, "We will continue to promote policies that the public can directly feel through continuous innovation task discovery and strive to fulfill the national responsibility in disasters."

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