Safer airport for employees leading to better customer service

MOU between KOSHA and Incheon Airport for accident prevention

17 Oct. 2013

○ Incheon International Airport is seeking to improve customer services and safety by making the airport a safer and healthier workplace and KOSHA is ready to provide helping hands.

○ KOSHA and ICN Airport signed a MOU on accident prevention on 16 Oct in the airport headquarters to enhance airport’s occupational safety and health.

○ About 7,000 workers are working for the airport including those hired by 40 contractors and, as the airport is building an additional terminal, construction workers safety is now at the center of attention.

○ The MOU includes joint projects like establishing airport workers’ health center, OSH technical assistance from KOSHA and prevention activities at the airport construction site.

○ To be more specific, KOSHA will develop a health promotion plan considering job characteristics of airport workers, conduct risk assessment for airport’s working environment, give support for joint OSH programs for the airport and its contractors, help health care of contract companies’ workers and engage in accident prevention activities for the extra terminal construction site.

○ For the airport’s part, they will fully cooperate with KOSHA in workers’ health promotion activities, OSH training, and support for contractors and agreed to display OSH catchphrases promoted by KOSHA on airport billboards. Joint OSH campaign and sharing of training material and accident prevention technique are also part of the MOU.