□ Occupational Safety & Health Research Institute (OSHRI, Director General KIM Jang-ho) of KOSHA held 『Occupational Health Analysis Specialist seminar for Second Half of 2016』 in Yesan, Chungcheongnam-do over two days between November 17-18.

○ This seminar was held in conjunction with National Occupational Health Analysis Council on the theme of enhancing capabilities for work environment measurement and analysis with over 200 participants including the analysts of work environment monitoring agencies and special examination agencies.

□ This seminar included seminars on various themes in the following offered by the officials of three agencies; Work Environment Research Department of OSHRI, Occupational Lung Disease Research Institute of Korea Workers' Compensation & Welfare Service, and National Occupational Health Analysis Council:

○ △ Current Status of the Occurrence of Occupational Disease, △ Work Environment Measurement, △ Workplace Environment Assessment, and △ Exposure to Welding Fume in Construction Site alongside discussions for improving the quality control system for work environment measurement.

○ Before the seminar, OSHRI Director General’s Citation was awarded to the person of merit for the advancement of concurrent occupational health analysis and quality control system (Gang-hoon Han of Korea Workers' Compensation & Welfare Service Suncheon Hospital).

○ Also, Work Environment Research Department distributed the leaflet on the Improper Solicitation and Graft Act in relation to sample analysis.

□ “KOSHA will aggressively share information related with working environment measurement by practicing the core values of Government 3.0: openness, sharing, communication, and collaboration, making its utmost efforts to protect workers’ health.”(End)