The Taoyuan City Government strengthened its fire prevention policies. Mayor Chang San-Cheng recently presided over the first 2026 joint conference on fire prevention and hazardous chemicals management, bringing together departments and experts to review current safety measures. During the session, the Mayor announced plans to extend disaster governance beyond manufacturing to include storage and logistics, aiming to bolster overall public safety.
Mayor Chang stated that the city has implemented a rolling review mechanism to systematically bring high-risk facilities under regulatory oversight, steadily enhancing fire prevention efforts. “This work is arduous and often goes unheralded, yet the results are becoming clear,” he said, expressing gratitude to the city departments and advisory teams for their dedication to refining policies and achieving long-term safety goals.
Deputy Mayor Su Chun-Pin noted that Taoyuan was the first among Taiwan’s six special municipalities to amend its Fire Prevention Self-Government Ordinance in 2024. Through a phased and adaptive approach, high-risk facilities have been systematically brought under regulation through cross-departmental collaboration among the Fire Department, the Department of Environmental Protection, the Department of Economic Development, and the Department of Labor. In the first phase, 997 facilities handling hazardous materials in factories and related chemical substances were registered. The second phase added 221 recycling and waste treatment sites, bringing the total to 1,218. This latest incorporates 28 non-factory warehousing and logistics operations, extending oversight from manufacturing and usage to storage and distribution nodes.
Deputy Mayor Su explained that the ordinance closes regulatory gaps by mandating stricter source control and equipment upgrades., while enabling authorities to effectively track the flow of hazardous materials. Statistics show that factory and warehouse fires in Taoyuan dropped from 77 cases in 2024 to 56 in 2025—a 27.3% decrease and a ten-year low. Furthermore, first-quarter incidents in 2026 fell to 10 cases, a 16.7% decline year-on-year Su emphasized that these figures demonstrate the effectiveness of the City’s integrated strategy, from legal amendments and regulatory inclusion to enforcement.
The City Government stated that the current regulatory scope covers hazardous materials in factories, public hazardous substances, explosive precursor chemicals, and specialized sites such as cold storage, flammable material stockpiles, and recycling and waste treatment facilities. Under the new measures, warehousing and logistics operators must now comply if they meet three criteria: handling hazardous materials above regulated quantities, maintaining a floor area of at least 5,000 square meters, and having paid-in capital of NT$10 million or more. This directive, covering the third batch of 28 non-factory operators, will be officially implemented by late June. Going forward, operators must register, submit disaster prevention plans, and obtain mandatory public liability insurance, marking the formal extension of Taoyuan’s disaster prevention governance from the “production end” to the “storage end.”
City officials emphasized that once integrated into the registry, operators must report and implement disaster prevention measures or face fines between NT$50,000 and NT$100,000. Furthermore, illegal structures or unauthorized factories that fail to rectify violations twice within a single year will be prioritized for demolition, signaling the administration’s commitment to strict enforcement.