‘Domestic motor company protect workers of partners’

The Ministry of Labor and Employment and KOSHA hosts ‘Leader’s Meeting on Occupational Safety and Health in the Car Industry’ together with representatives of 11 car factories of five Korean motor companies.

2^nd May,

As occupational accidents in the overall car industry are rising, KOSHA hosted a meeting to come up with measures to support partners of the five motor companies which are recording less accident cases though.

According to the occupational accidents statistics, 206 accidents were reported, reduced by 14 cases in the eleven car factories of the five motor companies, as of the end of March this year.

Meanwhile the overall car industry witnessed 18 more cases of accidents than last year’s 833 cases to be total of 851 as of the end of March.

KOSHA(President: Hun-ki Baek), in that sense, hosted the ‘Leader’s Meeting on Occupational Safety and Health in the Car Industry’ to find ways to support occupational safety and health of the partner companies’ workers and to share progress of the eleven factories of the motor companies.

<Leader’s Meeting on Occupational Safety and Health in the Car Industry>

?When: 11:00~13:00, Thu, 3^rd May, 2012

?Where: on the 14^th floor, Libera Hotel in Dae-jeon

?Participants: President of KOSHA, representatives from the Occupational Accident Prevention and Compensation Burea of the Ministry of Employment and working group, and representatives from eleven factories of the motor companies.

※ Eleven factories are: Gwang-ju, So-ha Ri, Hwa-sung factory of KIA Motors, factories of Renault Samsung Motors and Ssangyong Motors, Gun-san, Chang-won, Bu-pyeong factories of GM Korea and Asan, Ul-san and Jeonju factories of Hyundai Motors.

The ‘Leader’s Meeting on Occupational Safety and Health in the Car Industry’ was the venue to build up a partnership among the car factories, the Ministry of Employment and Labor and KOSHA, and to enhance the level of OSH within the auto industry of Korea.

Participants of the meeting will deal with the ways to harness ‘Common Growth Program for Occupational Safety and Health’ as a practical tool to reduce accidents in an effort to make the achievements of the factories to decrease accidents permeate in the overall auto industry.

※’Common Growth Program for Occupational Safety and Health’ is a program led by a mother company to establish and implement safety and health plans together with its partners. The plan includes risk assessment and activities to provide technologies.

In addition, OSH progress and plan for this year of the five motor companies, by factories such as Ul-san factory of the Hyundai Motors and So-ha Ri factory of the KIA Motors, will be released in the meeting.

A person from KOSHA said “The auto industry is a comprehensive machinery industry with upstream and downstream benefits, creating jobs and promoting exports as an important sector in the Korean economy.” adding that he hopes this meeting will serve as an opportunity to find ways to build up and run OSH management system of the motor companies’ partners through the mother companies’ efforts, contributing to bringing the OSH within the auto industry to the new level.  End.