– Central Safety Management Committee on the 25th... Gyeongnam announced as an excellent example of local government safety policy
– Manual reorganization from disaster response focused on post-recovery to proactive preparation and response
– Last June, the province’s role as a control tower was strengthened through disaster situations and new establishments.
Gyeongsangnam-do (Governor Park Wan-soo) announced the progress of building a 'disaster and safety control tower' as an excellent example of local government safety policy at the '25th Central Safety Management Committee and Central Local Safety Inspection Meeting' held on the 113th in the video conference room of the Seoul Government Complex under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister. announced.
The meeting on this day was an opportunity to review the progress of the comprehensive plan to reform the national safety system ahead of the first anniversary of the Itaewon accident. As the government requested that Gyeongnam Province share its safety policy excellence, Gyeongnam Province Governor Choi Man-rim presented the province's best practices. .
The fact that Gyeongnam Province suffered no major casualties or property damage despite heavy rain of up to 7 mm in July and Typhoon 'Kanun' in August is largely due to the manual focusing on advance preparation and response, which Gyeongnam Province completely revamped as the control tower of disaster safety. did it
Gyeongnam Province has been conducting surveys and inspections of areas at risk of damage from torrential rain since March, and has been managing areas at risk of flooding and landslides due to increased rainfall by risk level.
Resident evacuation and control methods at each risk level were also reflected in the storm and flood response manual to prevent major damage through proactive measures.
What is especially noteworthy is that the Disaster Response Headquarters organizational system, which had so far focused on recovery after a disaster, was completely reorganized into a preemptive prevention and site-centered response system.
When typhoons and heavy rain were forecast, Gyeongnam Province dispatched on-site situation management officers, mainly staff in the facility field, to cities and counties to inspect risk areas and take necessary measures such as evacuation of residents and prior control.
In addition, it is noteworthy that for the first time in the country, a city-county situation management team was organized and operated to monitor closed-circuit (CC) TV in disaster-risk areas 24 hours a day, and that when signs of danger were detected, it cooperated with the city and county to respond preemptively, such as evacuation of residents and prior control. .
While the role of the province was previously limited to simply receiving and disseminating disaster situations in cities and counties, it now functions as a disaster safety control tower in name and reality, from proactive prevention to direct command and control of the situation, and support for response and recovery.
To this end, Gyeongsangnam-do Province established a disaster situation department in June last year to integrate and manage disaster situations, and established a work system in which the disaster prevention and safety staff of the provincial office and firefighters jointly provide real-time situation control and initial response 6 hours a day.
This is the first time this has been implemented at a metropolitan level, and during the last heavy rain, campers along the river in Miryang and fishermen on the Sewol Bridge in Hadong were quickly evacuated.
In addition, three-dimensional and comprehensive safety management was made possible by unifying the nine disaster situation management systems that were operated separately by department into a comprehensive monitoring system.
As the number of large-scale disasters and accidents beyond normal risk awareness and disaster management response capabilities increases, Gyeongnam Province announced that it will prepare new disaster response headquarters operation standards by stage and type for major* social disasters.
*(Concern about casualties) Performance halls, stadiums, festival halls, marine vessels, fishing boats, large-scale fires, chemical accidents, forest fires, building collapse
In addition, it was emphasized that a drone video control system will be introduced to preemptively prevent disasters and accidents, such as forest fires that may occur in closed-circuit (CCTV) blind spots and accidents involving crowded crowds during festivals and events.
Executive Governor Choi Man-rim said, “We will continue to strengthen Gyeongnam Province’s disaster response role by improving manuals and systems with a focus on field-centered, advance preparation and response.”