Reasons for Proposal
Safety accidents at children’s amusement facilities are still happening, even leading to death in serious cases.
To prevent such accidents, it would be advisable to reduce the frequency of routine facility inspections of decrepit children’s amusement facilities, and ensure the professionalism and objectivity of safety inspections by requiring them to be conducted not by the managing body, but by a person who meets certain qualification requirements and who has been designated by the head of the managing institution.
It is also necessary to provide users with easy access to relevant safety information by requiring managing bodies to record and retain inspection results and display the results at children’s amusement facilities.
Accordingly, the Amendment shortens the interval between inspections of decrepit children’s amusement facilities by requiring any children’s amusement facility for which 10 years have elapsed since the installation inspection to undergo at least one routine facility inspection each year. It requires managing bodies to ensure that safety inspections are conducted by persons who meet certain qualification requirements and who have been designated by the head of the managing institution, while also obligating managing bodies to display inspection results, etc., thereby aiming to strengthen the inspection program for the safety of children’s amusement facilities (proviso of Article 12, paragraph 2 newly inserted; Article 15; Article 17).
Major Provisions
Shorten the interval between inspections of decrepit children’s amusement facilities by requiring any children’s amusement facility for which 10 years have elapsed since the installation inspection to undergo at least one routine facility inspection each year. Require managing bodies to ensure that safety inspections are conducted by persons who meet certain qualification requirements and who have been designated by the head of the managing institution, and obligate managing bodies to display inspection results, etc. (proviso of Article 12, paragraph 2 newly inserted; Article 15; Article 17)
