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Construction and Planning

department stores, shopping malls and hypermarkets during anniversary sales and before the
Chinese New Year holidays. Inspections were carried out in 426 locations.

④ Collaborated with the Ministry of Economic Affairs in supervising public safety inspections

of the eight specialized service professions and electronic playground industry between
March and April 2017. Collaborated with the Ministry of Health and Welfare in supervising
public safety inspections of social welfare institutes and nursing homes in December 2017.
Collaborated with the Ministry of Education in supervising public safety inspections of short-
term learning centers between October and November 2017.

(2) Random inspections of 264 mechanical amusement park facility items at 30 locations were carried

out in 2017.
(3) In 2017, 61 applications for certification of building fire prevention and shelter function design were

approved and 465 fire-retardant building material certificates were issued.

(4) In 2017, applications for issuance or change of public inspection certificates were processed.
Certificate applications from 12 professional inspection organizations (issuance, renewal) and
inspector certificate applications from 656 individuals (issuance, renewal) were processed.

8. Building Disaster Prevention and Relief Work

(1) In 2017, post-disaster dangerous building assessment drills were conducted with the participation
of 2,000 people.

(2) In 2017, the plan for registration and utilization of heavy engineering machines was implemented,
and 7,777 heavy construction machines and 4,488 operators were registered.

(3) 22 local governments received subsidies from the “Building Seismic Capacity Evaluation and
Upgrade Program” that amounted to NT$8 million in 2017; the Earthquake Post-Disaster

Dangerous Building Identification Training Project was implemented and detailed assessment of
seismic resistance was completed for 30 buildings to strengthen earthquake preparedness and
disaster prevention work.

(4) Supervised special municipalities and county/city governments in completing safety inspections at
438 controlled slope land housing districts.

(5) According to the Home Safety Program, subsidies totaling NT$400 million were approved for the
Soil Liquefaction Potential Area Prevention and Improvement Demonstration Plans of 9 county/

city governments, including Taipei City, New Taipei City, Tainan City, Kaohsiung City, Yilan County,

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