Checks set to make Games venues safe

All elevators, boilers and pressure vessels used in Olympic venues, training camps, press centers and designated hotels and hospitals will undergo special safety checks before the upcoming Olympic Games to ensure zero accident, a senior quality control official said yesterday.

In addition, lifting appliances such as cranes, and automobiles used in venues or camps are also subject to such checks, Zhang Gang, director of the special equipment supervision bureau of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), told a press briefing.

He said about 16,000 such devices will receive safety checks in Beijing, of which nearly 6,000 are in central areas such as Games venues and training camps.