Special Inspection of HDC Hyundai Construction Site Starting from the 17th

"Organize Supervisory Teams of 10 or More per Site... Supervision for Over 5 Days"

Gwangju Seo-gu Hwajeong Hyundai I-Park Residential-Commercial Complex Apartment Structural Collapse Site. (Image source=Yonhap News)

[Sejong=Asia Economy Reporter Moon Chaeseok] The Ministry of Employment and Labor announced that it will conduct a special inspection starting from the 17th at the construction site of HDC Hyundai Development Company, the contractor for the apartment construction in Hwajeong-dong, Seo-gu, Gwangju, where an incident occurred on the 11th.

The special inspection will target 12 large-scale nationwide sites selected by considering the progress rate and type of construction among the sites currently being constructed by HDC Hyundai Development. Each site will have an inspection team of more than 10 members and the inspection will last for more than five days. Compliance with safety measures under the Industrial Safety and Health Act will be verified, and the results will be notified to the business owners and management officials. Additionally, safety violations at other construction sites will also be checked, and surprise inspections will be conducted at sites found to be deficient.

Inspections and supervision in collaboration with local governments will also be promoted. First, construction projects ordered by local governments that are subject to the Serious Accident Punishment Act and exceed 5 billion KRW will be inspected for compliance with the construction safety and health ledger. Vulnerable sites will be reported to the Ministry of Employment and Labor’s labor inspectors. In the future, sites reported by local governments will be subject to patrol inspections and surprise supervision.

Furthermore, the Ministry of Employment and Labor has agreed to actively cooperate with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport’s 'Nationwide Emergency Safety Inspection of Construction Sites.' If the Regional Land Management Office detects vulnerable sites suspected of violating the Industrial Safety and Health Act during inspections of high-rise building construction sites and reports them to the Ministry of Employment and Labor, these sites will be prioritized for surprise inspections.

Meanwhile, at 4 p.m. on the same day, Deputy Minister Park Hwajin of the Ministry of Employment and Labor will hold a 'Related Agencies Inspection Meeting' attended by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the National Police Agency, the Fire Agency, and Gwangju City. The meeting will review search activity plans and tower crane dismantling plans, emphasizing the determination of accident responsibility through cooperation among the prosecution, police, and labor office.

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