Certification of best workplace to make the work site healthy

KOSHA selects top five workplaces in promoting workers’ health through, for example, job stress management program

14^th May,

KOSHA certified five enterprises for their efforts to enhance workers’ health and two of them are:  company that tries to prevent stress through ‘stress-free body and mind’ program towards workers with hypertension and high level of stress; pharmaceutical manufacturer which provides breakfast with all the workers once a month to prevent them from skipping the meal.

President Hun-ki Baek certified five enterprises including ‘Dream Pharma’, a medical product manufacture, as the best workplaces in promoting workers’ health. The ceremony was held in KOSHA’s headquarter on 14, Monday.

*The five enterprises are: Dream Pharma, LG Electronics Seo-cho R&D Campus, LG Electronics MC Campus, GE sensing Korea, and Incheon branch of E-land Newcore Outlet.

‘The best workplace in promoting workers health’ refers to a certification program run by KOSHA. The agency receives companies’ activities to promote workers’ health and select the best cases among them through a comprehensive estimation to finally give certification.

The estimation focuses on: the company’s efforts to manage cerebro and cardiovascular diseases, musculoskeletal disorder; management and labor’s level of awareness of promoting workers’ health; company’s running of related programs or policies.

-KOSHA has set the program ever since July 2011 and certified 97 enterprises up until now including the five mentioned above.

-The certified enterprise is benefited with financial support to enhance workers’ health and is recommended as the first candidate of the government’s prize. Further, it is exempted from the inspection conducted by the Ministry of Employment and Labor in the health sector.

Meanwhile, around 6,000 works related diseases are reported including cerebro and cardiovascular diseases, musculoskeletal disorder and job stress, with the total cases of 18,857 in recent three years.

-Also 1,020 cases of fatal illnesses were reported showing some 340 workers lose their live a year from work related diseases.

* Occupational illnesses in recent three years from work related diseases

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The relative person from Occupational Health Department of KOSHA said “as the culture of labor and management advances, they are all the more interested in enhancing workers’ health through supporting non-smoking program and coming up with programs to deal with job stress” adding that he hopes to see more enterprises are certified in improving workers’ health. End.

President Hun-ki Baek(third from left) takes a picture with people from the certified enterprises.