"Rest During Hot Hours!" Pohang City Strengthens Heatwave Safety Management for Senior Job Project's "Healthy Summer"

Pohang City focuses on strengthening safety management through the summer operation guide for senior job and social activity support projects.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Dongguk Lee] Pohang City, Gyeongbuk Province, announced that it is focusing on strengthening safety management by distributing the 'Elderly Job and Social Activity Support Project Heatwave Operation Guide' to each private implementing agency and project department to smoothly operate the elderly job project consisting of vulnerable elderly people during the heatwave that started earlier than usual.

Currently, Pohang City is conducting this year's elderly job and social activity support projects at 10 private implementing agencies including Pohang Senior Club, as well as 48 city departments and eup/myeon/dong administrative welfare centers, to provide various social participation opportunities so that the elderly can lead a lively and healthy old age. A total of 8,915 elderly people are participating.

The 'Heatwave Operation Guide' includes ▲ refraining from outdoor activities and encouraging rest during hot hours (noon to 5 p.m.) ▲ pre-adjusting activity times to allow groups with many outdoor activities to work in the morning ▲ providing guidelines for actions against heatwaves and information on currently operating cooling shelters ▲ classifying elderly participants into heatwave risk groups considering their age and health status, followed by telephone confirmation.

Choi Myunghwan, Director of the Welfare Bureau, said, "We will strive to ensure that the elderly job project is safely carried out to support the income and protect the health of participating elderly people during the heatwave period."

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