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have been issued. In 2021, a total of 538 qualified fire safety personnel had been retrained, and a total
of 484 applicants for review and registration of fire safety personnel points. For locations where fire safe-
ty equipment ought to be inspected and declared, the filed report rate of Class A locations in 2021 was
98.95% (30,744 out of 31,071). The report filing rate for locations other than Class A in 2021 was 96.45%

(181,056 out of 187,720).

3. Inspection of Fire Safety Equipment Inspections
The NFA has continuously promoted and conducted fire safety inspections and requested local fire

departments to track and monitor occupancies that failed to conform to fire safety regulations until they
meet the necessary criteria. In 2021, 234,405 out of 267,618 fire safety equipment inspections passed,
with a pass rate of 87.59%. 1,139 were fined, 7 were suspended or banned, and 203 were transferred to

the Administrative Enforcement Agency, Ministry of Justice, for administrative enforcement.

4. Strengthening Flame Retardancy Certifications and management
Based on Article 11 of the Fire Services Act and other relevant regulations, NFA promotes flame-retar-

dant products and systems, inspects firms that qualify for flame-retardant certification, and randomly tests
flame-retardant products. At the end of 2021, 1,394 firms passed the certification process. Of the 3,039 ran-
dom inspections conducted in 2021, 2,959, or 97.37%, passed, and 30 firms were suspended from issuing
flame-retardant labels. A total of 946,901 labels of flame-retardant materials and products were issued.

IV. Hazardous Materials Management

1. Enhancing Management Mechanisms for Public Hazardous Materials

(1) To promote security and supervisory systems for places where using public hazardous materials,
we held 61 sessions of security and supervisory personnel training in 2021 and issued 1,528 certifi-
cates for security supervisors.

(2) In 2021, 619 tanks that store public hazard liquid materials in the country were inspected.

(3) In 2021, 7,449 places that store and process public hazards materials were inspected.

2. Implementing Firecracker and Firework Safety Management System
(1) The inspection and ban on firecracker and firework manufacturing, storage, and selling premises
are enhanced, there are 228 firecrackers and firework manufacturers, 244 storage premises, and

346 selling premises were inspected in 2021. The authority will continue to track and control areas
with illegal activities.

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