Thorough Coverage of Safety Blind Spots! ... Pohang City Conducts Extensive Inspections of Citizen-Accessible Facilities

Emergency Meeting Held to Prepare for Summer Social Disasters...Significant Expansion of Safety Inspections

Focused Inspections on Children's Facilities, Apartment Complex Structures, and Multi-use Facilities

Pre-inspection and Strengthened

On the 14th, Pohang City held an 'Emergency Countermeasure Meeting for Summer Social Disasters' and decided to strengthen safety inspections of facilities closely related to citizens' daily lives.

On the 14th, Pohang City held the "Emergency Measures Meeting for Social Disasters in Summer" in the City Hall conference room.

At the meeting, held under the special directive of Mayor Lee Kang-deok of Pohang, Vice Mayor Kim Nam-il presided over discussions on safety inspection measures for facilities closely connected to citizens' lives, including children's facilities, sports facilities, multi-use facilities, and apartment complex structures, to prevent safety accidents in advance.

In particular, extensive safety inspections will be conducted on beaches and related facilities expected to have many visitors during the vacation and summer seasons, and any hazards found during inspections will be immediately repaired, dismantled, supplemented, or guided accordingly.

On the 10th, an accident occurred in Gyeongsan City where a metal swing in an apartment playground broke, resulting in the death of an elementary school student. It was found that the swing was installed in a residents' exercise facility rather than the playground, placing it outside the scope of safety inspections.

Accordingly, the city plans to expand the scope of safety inspections to prevent such blind spots and will conduct special safety inspections on facilities closely related to citizens' lives regardless of the managing entity.

Pohang City conducted safety inspections of children's playground facilities last March, and this time, emergency inspections will cover blind spot facilities including auxiliary facilities.

Additionally, as the COVID-19 alert level has been lowered and the peak vacation season approaches, pre-inspections and safety measures for beaches and inland waters (such as valleys, rivers, and reservoirs) will be proactively strengthened to completely prevent casualties.

Along with this, the city will analyze types and cases of previous safety accidents to prepare accordingly, operate special inspection teams including experts, expand the range of hazardous facilities, increase the deployment of safety personnel, and implement extraordinary measures to prevent safety accidents.

Vice Mayor Kim Nam-il stated, “The best way to prevent accidents is to predict risks and conduct meticulous inspections before safety accidents occur,” adding, “We will significantly expand the inspection targets to include facilities closely related to daily life and carry out extensive safety inspections so that citizens can feel secure.”

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