Hanwha Aerospace Daejeon Plant excluded from intensive safety inspections since 2019
Controversy over safety inspections at Hanwha Aerospace's Daejeon plant, absent since the 2019 accident Check the circumstances behind the exclusion from intensive safety inspections and the current state of safety management at defense facilities
It has been found that Hanwha Aerospace’s Daejeon plant has not once been included in the government or local government’s intensive safety inspection targets since the explosion accident in 2019, up to this year.
According to a report by Kyunghyang Shinmun, the government and local governments inspect facilities at risk of fire, collapse, and other accidents every year and disclose the results, but no inspection record has been confirmed for the plant since the special inspection in 2019. After the accident, which killed three people at the time, Daejeon City said it would strengthen safety measures and also pursue a joint inspection with related agencies, but no followup measures have been confirmed.
The article reported that, as 13 people have died in similar accidents over the past eight years, there are calls for the safety management system to function effectively in practice, even if external oversight is difficult due to the nature of defense facilities.