Jeju Fire Department, Fire Facility Self-Inspection Defect Rate Down 12.6% Compared to Last Year

Published 22 Jan.2024 10:13(KST)

Jeju Fire Station (Chief Yang Young-seok) announced on the 22nd that the number of defective sites decreased by 12.6% compared to the previous year (2022), with 903 defective sites out of 5,816 sites inspected in 2023.

Jeju Fire Station's analysis of last year's self-inspection performance results showed that the number of defective sites decreased by 12.6% compared to the previous year (2022), with 903 defective sites out of 5,816 locations.
[Photo by Jeju Fire Station]

This is seen as a result of strengthened responsibility for fire safety, as stakeholders voluntarily repaired and supplemented defects before submitting reports, participating in Jeju Fire Station’s efforts to foster a culture of autonomous safety management.

The ‘Fire Facility Self-Inspection’ is a private-centered autonomous safety management system under the Fire Services Act, where building stakeholders, managers, and appointed fire safety managers (fire engineers, fire facility managers) inspect fire facilities at least once a year.

Jeju Fire Station operates a single reception desk for self-inspections, providing civil service that enhances public convenience by handling consultations, reception, progress, and results of self-inspection-related civil complaints in a one-stop manner.

In 2023, a total of 5,816 self-inspection civil complaints were received by Jeju Fire Station, with ▲complex buildings accounting for 1,638 sites (28.8%), ▲neighborhood living facilities 1,581 sites (27.8%), and ▲apartment complexes 711 sites (12.5%), confirming that facilities and residential spaces that provide convenience in daily life accounted for 56.6% of the total.

By period, inspections were conducted in the order of ▲1st quarter 1,758 sites (30.9%), ▲2nd quarter 1,583 sites (23.7%), ▲3rd quarter 711 sites (23.6%), and ▲4th quarter 711 cases (7.1%), with the first quarter having the most inspections. January (12%) was identified as the month with the highest frequency of inspections among the 12 months.

Meanwhile, the number of defects found in defective sites was 9,512 cases, an increase of 28.8% compared to 7,414 cases in the previous year.

This is analyzed as a result of more precise inspections due to enhanced inspection expertise, such as the expansion of inspection targets for fire facility management companies (fire facility managers) following the enactment and revision of the ‘Act on Installation and Management of Fire Facilities’ (Fire Services Act) in December 2022, which raised inspection qualifications.

By fire facility type, the number of defects was highest in ▲automatic fire detection equipment (detectors) with 2,908 cases (30.6%), ▲emergency exit lights with 2,245 cases (24%), and ▲fire extinguishing equipment with 1,434 cases (15.1%), indicating that basic fire facilities had the most defects.

Chief Yang Young-seok said, “Fire facility self-inspection is an essential system to establish a culture of autonomous safety management,” and added, “We will reflect improvement measures derived from this self-inspection civil complaint processing analysis in future self-inspection civil complaint handling and do our best to improve stakeholders’ safety awareness so that fire facilities in buildings are properly maintained and managed.”