Jeonnam Fire Department Conducts Comprehensive Fire Safety Survey with Private Experts

Enhancing External Credibility, Transparency, and Safety Assurance

Expansion to 22 Fire Stations Starting Next Year

The Jeonnam Fire Headquarters (Chief Hong Young-geun) is making every effort to ensure safety by moving away from uniform inspections centered on firefighting to comprehensive fire safety investigations by sector.

Jeonnam Fire announced on the 20th that safety guidance inspections are being conducted together with private experts.

The private experts consist of a pool of 154 personnel, including professors from fire-related departments, architects, and certified professionals in the electrical and gas fields.

This has been implemented since July 2022 to enhance external credibility and transparency.

The Fire Headquarters and 10 fire stations conduct joint inspections twice a month with 3 to 4 private experts to identify issues in building safety management and promote system improvements. Next year, the program will be expanded to 22 fire stations.

Inspections focus on the architectural field (evacuation and fire protection facilities, illegal building extensions, etc.), electrical field (aging electrical equipment, leakage and overcurrent breaker status, etc.), and gas field (gas equipment connections, pipe corrosion, etc.).

On the 17th, a performance report on the private expert participation project and evaluations from residents regarding contributions to provincial administration were highly praised at the GS Caltex Yeoulmaru in Yeosu.

Park Won-guk, Head of the Response and Prevention Division at Jeonnam Fire Headquarters, said, “We will do our best to establish a safety culture by continuously building a public-private cooperation system.”

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