Contract with Samsung Everland’s FC division

preventing accidents from wet and slippery kitchen

30^th April

KOSHA and Samsung Everland’s FC division cooperate to enhance health and prevent accidents of workers at the kitchen that provides food to workplaces and hospitals etc.

President of KOSHA, Mr. Baek concludes Memorandum of Understanding on Preventing Occupational Accidents on the 30^th April, with Samsung Everlands’ FC division.

<Memorandum of Understanding on Preventing Occupational Accidents at the kitchen>

When: 11:00a.m. 30^th April

Where: on the 7^th floor of Samsung Everland’s FC building

Participants: President Baek of KOSHA, Director of the Samsung Everlands’ FC division

l  Samsung Everland FC(Food Culture) division is in charge of providing group meal service, food and beverage distribution and customized food by its retailers.

If this contract begins, Samsung Everland FC division promotes protection activities of workers’ health and implements prevention of occupational accidents for around 100,000 workers in some 580 work places and 8 partner work places across the country, together with KOSHA.

Meanwhile KOSHA supports the FC division to set up the safety and health program and develop safety and health technology. The division, by establishing the efficient safety and health system and infrastructure, encourage its subcontractors to accept the safety and health management system, under the goal of achieving common growth.

Through this contract, both parts improves working environment by making efforts to create safe kitchens which serve many people at the same time. In that sense, the memorandum holds the plan to reflect ‘slips and trips accidents prevention system’ for newly opened kitchens.

Also both KOSHA and the FC division plans to disseminate the best practice according to the result of projects of creating kitchens free from wet and slippery floors.

Meanwhile among 6,995 cases of accidents in the food related industry last year, 1,951 cases or 27.9% were from accidents which means that three out of ten workers in the food related industry are suffering from the slips and trips.

President Hun-ki Baek said that if we ensure safety and health of workers, the quality of service will be enhanced adding that he hopes to see accidents reduced. Through this contract, safety and health status of workers will be improved as KOSHA concludes the contract with one of the largest meal service company in Korea. End.