Ministry of Health and Welfare and Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Agree on Safety Management Measures for Small Vulnerable Facilities such as Senior Centers
The Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced on the 17th that they have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish measures to strengthen safety management of small-scale vulnerable facilities such as senior centers.
Small-scale vulnerable facilities such as senior centers, mainly used by the elderly, are aging, while local governments face a shortage of management personnel and a large number of facilities to inspect, raising concerns about blind spots in safety management. Accordingly, the two ministries plan to train more than 3,000 elderly job participants as safety inspection specialists from this year until 2027, and strengthen safety management through more than 180,000 inspections.
To this end, the Ministry of Health and Welfare will revise safety inspection standards for senior centers and support the training of safety inspection specialists by utilizing elderly job programs. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport will support capacity building for safety inspectors hired through elderly job programs, enhance reliability through an IT-based smart inspection web, and database (DB) the inspection results.
In addition, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport plans to have the Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement conduct detailed safety inspections on facilities with safety concerns identified in the inspections and devise prompt countermeasures, as well as support up to 70% of the costs for facility repair, reinforcement, and energy performance improvement construction.
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The two ministries emphasized, "Through collaboration, we expect an investment effect of more than 270 billion KRW in safety management costs and the creation of more than 3,000 elderly jobs by 2027."
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