Yoon Jeong-min, Gwangju Seo-gu Council Member, Establishes Basis for Safety Security Officer Activities

Published 10 May.2023 20:05(KST)

The Gwangju Seo-gu Council has established a legal basis to support the Safety Guardian system, which carries out resident-participation safety culture activities.

Yoon Jeong-min, Gwangju Seo-gu Council Member, Establishes Basis for Safety Security Officer Activities

On the 10th, Yoon Jeong-min, a Seo-gu council member, announced at the Social and Urban Committee that the "Gwangju Metropolitan City Seo-gu Safety Guardian Operation Ordinance," which he proposed as the representative, has been passed.

The Safety Guardian system is a project promoted by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety to encourage resident participation in safety culture activities and improve the practice of ignoring safety.

Safety Guardians practice safety culture activities by monitoring the seven major chronic safety neglect practices, conducting safety inspections and reporting on everyday risk factors such as children's playground safety guidance.

Through this, they expand the overall safety level and awareness within the region and participate in Safety Inspection Days and campaigns to promote safety culture.

Councilor Yoon said, "As chronic safety neglect practices continued, consecutive safety accidents occurred, greatly increasing citizens' anxiety. Although the first Seo-gu Safety Guardian team was launched in 2018 and has been continuously expanded, there was no supporting ordinance to systematically back it up."

He added, "I hope that Seo-gu's safety culture activities will be revitalized in the future, raising the safety level of the local community even further."

Meanwhile, Seo-gu currently has 78 Safety Guardians appointed, mainly experts in disaster and safety fields and local activists, who are actively engaged in activities.