The Korea Coast Guard will conduct a national safety diagnosis in the water leisure sector for 51 days from the 10th to the 31st of next month in preparation for the peak season of water leisure activities. The water leisure national safety diagnosis will consist of inspection teams involving not only experts in related fields such as the Korea Coast Guard, local governments, and the Korea Maritime Transportation Safety Authority (KOMSA), but also ordinary people such as water leisure activity club members and university students. Facilities is going to be selected for the inspection are dangerous facilities among water leisure sites in sea and inland areas across the country. The criteria for selecting hazardous facilities include old facilities that are worried to cause accidents with a history of accidents over the past three years, and facilities that are deemed to need to be inspected due to the high risk of water leisure businesses with equipment with 13 or more crew members. Major inspection details include inspection of facilities and equipment according to the registration criteria for water leisure activities, life-saving equipment, qualification requirements of lifeguard, and discovery of legal system improvement tasks including unreasonable systems and practices. In 2019, 267 joint inspection teams issued 198 corrective orders (114 local government cases, 78 repair and reinforcement cases, and 6 administrative dispositions).
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