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Easy-to-Read Occupational Health Guideline 2017.11.01
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Easy-to-Read Occupational Health Guideline

Easy Book, Developed and Distributed by KOSHA

One Booklet and 5 Different Contents for Online Use, Prepared and Posted at Official Website

□ KOSHA develops and distributes 'Easy Book (a book beneficial to learn),' an occupational health guideline to prevent occupational diseases during the month of September.

○ The Occupational Safety and Health Act, which is comprised of details necessary to prevent occupational accidents, is not easy to understand because of the limits simply being legal provisions.

○ Especially at the workplaces of small businesses, failure to fully understand safety and health regulations required to prevent work-related diseases often leads to actual diseases.

□ The materials recently developed is to help easier understanding by simplifying core elements that both business owners and workers need to be aware in order to prevent work-related diseases.

○ These materials are featured with 5 topics: △ prevention of suffocation incidents, △ prevention of chemicals poisoning, △ prevention of musculoskeletal system disorder, △ improvement of workers' health promotion and △ prevention of heat-related illness.

○ At the same time, it contains mandatory safety regulations and responsive measures that need to be practiced by business owners and workers based on each of the occupational health themes.

After preparing one booklet and 5 different contents online (by each theme) from the Easy Book, the agency is scheduled to distribute them at workplaces such as the regional headquarters, branches and related organizations and to post them at its official website.

* Official Website of the Agency (http://www.kosha.or.kr) → Publications → Archive of Occupational Health (scheduled)

□ Young-Soon Lee, the President of KOSHA, said, "Providing necessary information for business owners and workers in a suitable manner is as important as promoting systems and projects necessary for workplaces."

○ "We will continue making efforts in order to develop numerous materials on essential matters that can be easily understood and utilized at the work sites," he added.

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