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Mayor Park Heong-joon Calls for “Zero Serious Citizen Accidents”: Strengthening On-Site, Close-Range Safety Inspections

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Busan Metropolitan City (Mayor Park Heong-joon) announced that, starting in April, it will strengthen and implement the “First Half 2026 Mandatory Compliance Inspection for Serious Citizen Accident Prevention” targeting 415 city-managed facilities to proactively prevent serious citizen accidents and enhance the execution of on-site safety management.

This inspection focuses on operating a more tightly structured field-centered prevention system, going beyond simple document reviews to closely examine whether safety and health management systems are functioning effectively on-site.

The City established the “2026 Comprehensive Plan for Serious Citizen Accident Prevention” in January and, based on this plan, continuously operates a three-stage feedback system—“staff training and self-inspection ⇒ document inspection and consulting ⇒ on-site inspection and consulting”—to enhance the effectiveness of inspections.

For key management facilities, accountability inspections by bureau and headquarters heads, along with ongoing on-site inspections, will be conducted to strengthen both management responsibility and inspection effectiveness.

Each bureau and headquarters head will conduct on-site inspections at least once per half year, and a dual inspection system will be operated, including separate verification procedures, to enhance the practical execution of management.

In particular, for facilities where inspection progress is insufficient or operational difficulties are encountered, a dedicated city team will visit the site directly to provide “on-site consulting.” The City plans to carefully oversee the entire process to ensure that tailored improvement measures for each facility are promptly presented and lead to tangible on-site improvements.

To eliminate safety management blind spots, the City will also conduct “risk assessments” for facilities not subject to legal inspection requirements.

Small-scale high-risk facilities that are not required to undergo regular inspections under the Facility Safety Act will be separately selected, and “risk assessments” will be conducted through specialized agencies.

Through this, the City aims to identify hazardous and risk factors in facilities where management gaps are a concern in advance, establish improvement measures tailored to each facility’s characteristics, and build a comprehensive safety net without gaps.

Additionally, “customized planned and thematic inspections” will be conducted throughout the year, taking into account the characteristics of each facility and periods of use, to enhance the timeliness of preventive management.

The City will continue conducting regular inspections focusing on high-risk areas, such as facilities vulnerable during thawing seasons and those used by children and the elderly, and will immediately correct identified risk factors or connect them to repairs and reinforcements to proactively prevent potential disasters.

To support this on-site execution, the City is also making efforts to build a preventive infrastructure by linking improvements to actionable guidelines, capacity-building training for staff, and public awareness campaigns.

The “Guidelines for Mandatory Compliance in Serious Citizen Accident Prevention” have been fully upgraded into actionable on-site guidelines so that practitioners can easily understand and immediately apply them according to workflow.

In addition, in March, capacity-building training was conducted for 184 personnel responsible for serious citizen accident prevention across the City, districts and counties, and public corporations, enhancing practical response capabilities. The City is also actively promoting public safety awareness through both online and offline channels, including electronic display boards across the city and the official website.

Mayor Park Heong-joon stated, “The core of preventing serious citizen accidents lies not in responding after an incident occurs, but in identifying risk factors in advance at the site and immediately addressing them,” adding, “Through on-site consulting and accountability inspections by bureau and headquarters heads, we will reduce the burden on practitioners while increasing the effectiveness of safety measures, and ultimately build a safe Busan free from serious citizen accidents.”