Issue Shifting to an integrated safety society under a Life Safety Basic Act

Summary

The report urges a paradigm shift from responding to individual accidents toward an integrated safety society that covers disasters, public order, labour and the population crisis, under a principle of the state's unlimited responsibility for people's lives. The right to safety would be established as a national duty and safety embedded as a value across government. A Life Safety Basic Act would set up plans and management systems for guaranteeing the basic right to safety across government. As a framework law, it would remove overlaps with other life safety rules and secure consistency. The expected effect is greater social awareness of safety and a higher policy priority for it.