Pursuing to reduce fatal accidents by 6%

KOSHA set out 3 strategies

26^th July

KOSHA accelerates its efforts in training workers on the field, developing and disseminating materials and conducting promotion and education, as part of ways to reduce fatal accidents for the later part of this year.

The agency especially implements its strategies by targeting each sector: the manufacturing, construction and the service sector to meet the goal, reducing the fatal rate by 6%.

President Hun-ki Baek of KOSHA ordered regional and area offices as well as headquarters to come up with special strategies to fight against fatal accidents in a preemptive manner, as the fatal accident’s falling rate slows down recently, and employment rate and operating rate are likely to go up in the second half of 2012.

The three strategies that KOSHA released are: providing on-site training, developing and disseminating materials on information of sectors exposed to accidents more than others, and giving education and promotion of deeply-concerned sectors, all of which are efforts to meet the goal of 6%.

KOSHA especially focuses on enterprises with 50 to 99 workers, chemical factories, the top five industrial machinery-equipped sites, and workplaces with migrant workers, in the manufacturing sector. In the construction sector, main targets are: construction contracts with less than KRW 12 billion; small-sized housing project; work platform. In the service sector, they are: hygiene and related service sector, and migrant-worker hiring enterprises.

KOSHA would spare no effort to reduce fatal accidents. Meanwhile, however, it would also focus on enterprises that witness increasing non-fatal accidents as well as fatal accidents. Lack of budget and man power is also problem to overcome and KOSHA, in that sense, works to change existing way of doing business, increase the range of assistance and find better follow-ups.

President Baek expressed his determination to make efforts to reduce fatal accidents rate, at the Yousung hotel in Dae-jeon, on the 16, where executives, directors of the headquarters and local offices, and director generals from the local offices gathered together to discuss prevention measures against occupational accidents.

He encouraged participants to focus on lowering fatal accident rate for the second half of this year so that fatal and non-fatal accident rates go down by up to 6%.