Holding Accident Prevention Agency Starting Ceremony for Decrease in Industrial Accident in Bucheon and Gimpo Area

Intensively Providing Technical Assistance Service for Workplaces with 50 Workers or Less

Feb. 22, 2014

Accident prevention agencies put their forces together to enhance the industrial accident prevention actions.

KOSHA (headed by President Baek Hun-ki) held ‘a ceremony for the achievement of the goal to reduce industrial accidents’ with 20 civil accident prevention agencies from Bucheon and Gimpo at the Education Hall of Workers Health Center located in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province on February 21.

 <Overview of ceremony>

             - Date: 14:30 -, Friday, February 21, 2014

             - Venue: Education Hall at Bucheon Workers Health Center (Administration Building #301, Bucheon Techno Park Complex 1, Samjak-ro 22, Ojeong-gu, Bucheon-si)

      - Participants: 60 persons concerned including KOSHA President Baek Hun-ki, representatives of civil accident prevention agencies, supervisors from Ministry of Employment and Labor, etc.

According to the provisional statistics of KOSHA, the number of industrial accident victims in Bucheon and Gimpo amounted to around 2,300 last year. This number shows a slight decline from the previous year while the number of people who died of industrial accidents increased by 9 compared with the previous one.

Accordingly, KOSHA, with the civil accident prevention agencies, holds a ceremony for the achievement of the goal to reduce industrial accidents and takes the lead in securing safety and protecting health of the workers in the regional workplace.

20 civil accident prevention agencies will visit manufacturing-, construction-, and service-related workplaces and provide them with technical assistance such as identifying risk factors, suggesting preventive measures, and offering accident prevention references, etc.

In particular, the KOSHA and civil agencies will focus their intensive attention on 12,000 small- and medium-sized workplaces, each of which has workers less than 50 with vulnerable working conditions and fewer capacities for safety control.

In addition to holding the ceremony with the civil accident prevention agencies, persons concerned including the president of KOSHA had a meeting with the representatives of the civil accident prevention agencies and other related staff members to talk about core businesses on technical assistance for accident prevention.

President Beak Hun-ki of KOSHA said “Through the cooperation with the local civil accident prevention agencies, I hope that we will be able to provide the best services for the field.” He added “I am also looking forward to us making contribution to the decrease in the industrial accidents by making great efforts to reduce accidents causing death.” in his speech at the ceremony.