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Billboards fall and cause casualties, so is there any supervision of the billboards before they fall?

Recently, in a commercial street in Panlong District, Kunming, Yunnan Province, there was an incident of a shop on the first floor of the shop falling down. Unfortunately, the falling billboard caused three deaths and seven injuries. One of the little sisters had just gone to one of the restaurants with their mother for dinner, and when the food came up, the children were knocked down by a billboard as soon as they took a bite, and the 6-year-old sister died on the spot, and the 4-year-old sister was still in the ICU.

Billboards fall and cause casualties, so is there any supervision of the billboards before they fall?

According to reports, the billboard is about 25 meters long and 4 meters wide, and the weight of such a behemoth can be imagined, and the photos taken by netizens at the scene are even more shocking, the heavy billboard is only held in place by thin angle iron and expansion bolts that do not expand into place.

Billboards fall and cause casualties, so is there any supervision of the billboards before they fall?

Of course, I can't judge whether there is a quality problem just by taking photos, but from the angle iron members that have been bent off, it is obvious that there is not only a quality problem, but also a problem that the potential safety hazards are not in place.

This so-called billboard is actually a store sign shared by five stores. As we all know, the store sign is a necessary sign for the store, showing the store name and business content, in most places, the store sign is approved by the local urban management department.

Usually, after applying for a business license, the operator will submit an application to the urban management department for the installation of the store, and generally provide the design effect drawings that meet the requirements of the urban management, and the installation may be carried out after approval or filing. If the store sign is installed without approval, the urban management department will deal with it in accordance with laws and regulations.

I am verbose about these to show that the installation of store signs is regulated and supervised.

The local urban management department also admitted that the billboards were subject to the approval of the urban management department. However, the urban management department believes that it is only responsible for reviewing the size, color and content of the billboards, and that the quality of the installation is the responsibility of the merchants and the construction party.

This seems to indicate that the installation of billboards is regulated, but whether it is a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, the drop of billboards is unsupervised and is the responsibility of the merchants.

As far as the billboard fall incident is concerned, if there are no casualties, then this incident may not attract people's attention, and naturally there will be no further investigation into whether there is anyone to supervise. But we know that the fall of the billboard seems to be sudden, but in fact, it should have formed a hidden danger long ago, and if it was checked in time, perhaps such a tragedy could have been avoided.

Billboards fall and cause casualties, so is there any supervision of the billboards before they fall?

The public generally thinks that since the signboard of the store is approved by the urban management department, then according to the principle of who examines and supervises, the responsibility for supervision must fall on the urban management. However, it seems not unreasonable that the chengguan can come up with the argument that it is only responsible for reviewing the size, font, and color, and does not care about the rest.

It can be seen that the supervision understood by the public is not exactly the same as the actual supervision, in the eyes of the urban management, perhaps this kind of billboard installation quality problem should be the business of the market supervision department, as for the investigation of potential safety hazards should be the work of the safety production department.

It seems to have fallen into a strange phenomenon, when the division of labor between functional departments was not detailed before, there was often a phenomenon that no one was in charge of something, but when the division of labor between functional departments was detailed, it would be found that no one was in charge of a certain link in a certain thing. In this way, it is simply impossible to think about how to mobilize the sense of responsibility of supervision. As it stands, it's a real problem. A typhoon is coming, and hidden dangers still exist!

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