Icheon City Promotes Intensive Safety Inspections for 2025 'Great Safety Transformation of the Republic of Korea'

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Eom In-yong] Icheon City is promoting intensive safety inspections for 2025 under the 'Great Safety Transformation of the Republic of Korea' initiative for 61 days from the 14th of last month through June 13 to identify and resolve risk factors in our daily lives.

The intensive safety inspections are conducted by central ministries, local governments, public institutions, private experts, and the general public to identify and address risk factors throughout society at an early stage, checking safety-vulnerable facilities (fire hazard facilities, hazardous chemical handling facilities, etc.) and all areas of daily life and safety.

Icheon City's major inspection targets are 61 facilities in areas of high public interest and those deemed to pose high risk.

For this purpose, the city has organized an intensive safety inspection task force headed by Vice Mayor Eom Jin-seop and is conducting facility safety inspections jointly with private experts from the Korean Industrial Safety Association for improving worker working environments and from construction, fire, and electrical fields. To ensure effective inspections, the city is implementing substantive intensive safety inspections through reinforced corrective actions and follow-up measures based on first-round inspection results.

In particular, the city has requested that contractors provide special support and management to prevent workplace safety accidents for workers in small partner companies, which have a relatively high proportion of casualties, and has requested continuous maintenance of stormwater treatment facilities to prevent weather-related disasters during rainy seasons.

Vice Mayor Eom Jin-seop said, "We ask citizens to directly use the Safety Report website or mobile app to report safety hazards and conduct voluntary safety inspections on all risk factors across society that threaten the safety of our families and neighbors."