Gyeonggi Province Conducts Intensive Safety Inspections at 2,400 Disaster-Vulnerable and Accident-Risk Facilities

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Kim Gab-dong] Gyeonggi Province announced on April 19 that it will conduct "2026 Intensive Safety Inspections" for two months from April 20 to June 19 at 2,433 facilities with disaster-vulnerability and accident risks in the province.

This inspection targets a total of 33 types of facilities including construction sites, bridges, apartment complexes, sports facilities, performance venues, and care facilities, and will be promoted as a large-scale joint inspection involving 82 organizations including the province, cities and counties, related agencies, and private experts, with a total of 5,254 person-days of participation.

In particular, the province plans to select facilities for vulnerable populations such as children, the elderly, and people with disabilities, as well as livelihood-focused facilities such as traditional markets and underground shopping centers as key inspection targets to focus on eliminating safety blind spots.

Inspections will be conducted through joint on-site inspection methods with private experts in fields such as architecture, civil engineering, and electricity, utilizing advanced equipment such as drones and thermal imaging cameras, with plans to enhance inspection expertise and reliability.

For inspection results, follow-up measures will be pursued based on priority, and a system will be operated to continuously manage implementation status through on-site inspections until noted issues are resolved, thereby strengthening effectiveness.

The province plans to expand resident participation by distributing autonomous safety inspection checklists, creating content on social media and YouTube, and conducting promotional activities including the resident inspection application system (where residents can directly request safety inspections, and professional and joint inspections are conducted), thereby inducing the spread of safety culture in daily life.

Meanwhile, inspection results are scheduled to be comprehensively reported in July and will be utilized in establishing future disaster prevention and response policies.

Kim Gyou-sik, Director of the Provincial Safety Management Office, stated, "This intensive safety inspection goes beyond simple inspection to become a prevention-oriented safety management policy with residents' participation," and added, "Residents can directly request inspections through the Safety Hotline app and other channels when they discover dangerous situations, so we hope for active participation from all residents."