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Full Support for Accident Prevention in Service Industry | 2017.02.28 | |||||
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Author : KOSHA | The attached file(1) | |||||
□ To prevent accidents in the service industry, Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency (KOSHA, President Lee Young-soon) decided to reduce accidents in the service industry by supporting 210,000 workplaces in seven business categories in which accidents occur in order.
□ As of 2015, there were a total of 29,734 victims in the service industry and 26,152 of them were found in the seven business categories, accounting for 88.0% of the victims in the service industry. ○ There are 1,490,000 workplaces in the service industry (63.0% of all industries as of 2015) nationwide, and it is difficult to prevent accidents in them as there are many small workplaces compared to other industries and many of them frequently close or shut down. □ Under the circumstances, KOSHA is pushing forward with a program to prevent accidents such as visiting and providing technical support for 210,000 work places around the country through the collaboration with six vocational organizations that are closely related with the service industry workplaces.
○ First, for the training of the program’s agents, KOSHA will train 500 or more agents from 6 vocational organizations of the service industry for the implementation of the program at Cheonan Sangnok Resort over three days from February 8 to 10. ○ The program’s agents will visit workplaces to △ suggest improvement measures, △ provide the safety and health training for workers, and △ provide safety and health materials suitable for the characteristics of the work place regarding hazardous factors of the facilities used in each place. ○ Especially, as unreasonable requests and actions of customers are causing accidents, the program will implement public relations activities to improve customer culture and develop and distribute related materials. □ “To provide the best service, the safety of workers in the industry must be secured,” said a KOSHA official, “KOSHA and private organizations will do their best to reduce accidents in the service industry through this cooperative work.” (End) |