Gyeonggi Province Cracks Down on 14 Safety Inspection Firms for 30 Violations

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Park Nohun] Gyeonggi Province announced on the 12th that it conducted field inspections on 18 registered facility safety diagnostic firms from October 8 to November 3 and identified a total of 30 violations from 14 companies, including 2 legal breaches, and took corrective measures.

Gyeonggi Province has a total of 211 facility safety diagnostic agencies. The 18 companies subject to inspection were selected from those that received administrative fines this year, those suspected of duplicate personnel, and newly registered firms.

The main violations identified were 1 case of false reporting in safety diagnostic reports, 1 case of minimum wage law violation, 7 cases of using unregistered equipment, 11 cases of failure to complete FMS (Facility Safety Management System) change registration, and 10 other cases such as exceeding calibration periods for possessed equipment. The false reporting case will be subject to administrative fine proceedings, the minimum wage law violation case was referred to the Central Regional Employment and Labor Office, and the remaining 28 cases were corrected.

Company A was found to have included a person who was removed from technical personnel in January of last year in 27 service reports that were subsequently conducted. The company will face an administrative fine of 5 million won under the Facility Safety Act.

Company B was confirmed to have paid wages below the minimum wage to working technical staff and was referred to the Central Regional Employment and Labor Office.

Companies that used unregistered equipment were required to update their registration by attaching performance certificates.

This field inspection targeted safety diagnostic firms under the Facility Safety Act, and Gyeonggi Province plans to continue conducting field inspections regularly in the first and second half of each year going forward.