“Secure safety and health of workers in Social Welfare Facilities”

KOSHA singed MOU with the Korea National Council on Social Welfare on September 26

Support to create facility evaluation index and manage health of workers

September 26, 2014

Endeavour to protect safety and health of workers working in the social welfare facilities, such as social welfare centers or senior welfare centers, will be pursued.

KOSHA signed an ‘MOU for occupational accident prevention’ with Korea National Council on Social Welfare and agreed on a collaborative effort on September 26. The Council is a representative public organization in the social welfare field in Seoul.

The purpose of the MOU is to secure safety of women and senior workers working in social welfare facilities. Falls or slips and trips while cooking, going up and down the stairs or maintaining facilities mainly occur among those workers.

In this context, KOSHA will put joint efforts to escalate the level of safety and health targeting more than 35,000 workers and about 2,200 social welfare facilities run by the Council under the MOU.

The Korea National Council on Social Welfare will actively participate in safety and health projects by creating safety and health index in the Social Welfare Facility Evaluation Index and disseminating various safety and health related materials for accident prevention in the social welfare field.

KOSHA will provide consulting for the creating of evaluation index for the facilities of Korea National Council on Social Welfare; give OSH educational training and technical materials; and support health care of related workers through Workers' Health Centers run by KOSHA.

President Baek, Hun-ki of KOSHA (fourth from the left) and President Cha, Heung-bong of Korea National Council on Social Welfare (fifth from the left) are determining their wills to support workers working in the social welfare facilities after the MOU signing ceremony.