KOSHA, Opens「Seoul Worker's Health Care Center」

Providing free occupational health services to workers of businesses with less than 50 employees

10 centers will be active within this year

April 29, 2013

 'Seoul Worker's Health Care Center' which offers free occupational disease prevention and health promotion programs to the workers of small businesses with less than 50 employees opened.

 KOSHA (President Hun-ki Baek) held the opening ceremony at 'Seoul Worker's Health Care Center' located in Gasan-dong, Geumcheon-gu, Seoul on Monday, April 29, announcing the full operation of the center.

* Seoul Worker's Health Care Center: 371-17, Gasan-dong, Geumcheon-gu, Seoul (Seoul Digital Industrial Complex)

 ‘Seoul Worker's Health Care Center’ offers various services such as disease and job stress counseling, work-fitness evaluation, and MSDs prevention counseling services through a group of occupational health experts composed of occupational environment medicine specialists, psychotherapists, nurses, occupational sanitation engineers, and physical therapists.

 Currently the Worker's Health Care Centers are open in 6 areas concentrated with industrial complexes such as Incheon, Siheung in Gyeonggi-do, Gwangju, Daegu, Changwon, and Seongnam, and ‘Seoul Worker's Health Center' became the 7th center.

 "Worker's Health Care Center will act as the 'doctor in charge of company' for small businesses with less than 50 employees that often do not have enough resources in terms of time and finance for health management," said a KOSHA official, "3 additional centers will open 3 new areas including Ulsan this year, 10 centers in total.”

Photo: President Hun-ki Baek of KOSHA (the 9th from the left) joined the opening ceremony for Seoul Worker's Health Center and cutting the ribbon with officials including Mayor of Seoul Won-soon Park (left to KOSHA President) and Jin-gook Moon (Federation of Korea Trade Unions President).