Bucheon City announced that it will conduct "winter safety inspections" from November 16 to December 4 for small-scale construction sites within its jurisdiction with a construction cost of less than 5 billion KRW. This inspection is designed to prevent safety accidents and avoid shoddy construction that may occur due to winter cold waves and heavy snowfall.

To intensively manage small-scale construction sites that are relatively vulnerable to safety management, the city will operate a public-private joint inspection team composed of private experts and public officials. They plan to visit sites directly to closely check safety management practices and construction quality.

Key inspection items include fire prevention measures resulting from the use of heating air blowers and temporary electric heaters, measures to prevent suffocation accidents when using briquette charcoal (galtan), and insulation and curing management status to prevent concrete freezing in winter.

In addition, the inspection will check whether temporary structures such as shores and scaffolds are arbitrarily dismantled during concrete curing, the installation status of safety railings and falling-object prevention nets, and compliance with guidelines for preventing cold-related illnesses among workers.

In particular, as low temperatures in winter degrade concrete quality and increase the risk of fire due to heating appliances, the focus will be on identifying and improving risk factors for each site in advance.

The city plans to have minor issues corrected immediately on-site, while taking administrative measures such as corrective orders in accordance with relevant regulations for serious violations. Following the inspections, the city plans to continue post-management for repeatedly violating sites to secure the construction quality of building sites and enhance their voluntary safety management capabilities.

Park Kyung-bok, head of the Building Management Division at Bucheon City, stated, "In winter, the risk of fire increases due to the use of heating appliances, and structural safety problems can occur due to poor concrete curing. We will thoroughly inspect compliance with on-site safety rules and preemptively improve risk factors to do our best in preventing safety accidents."

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