KOSHA is determined to prevent chemical accidents in Ul-san area

MOU between KOSHA, SK Innovation and Ulsan city

7^th  May 2013

President Hun-ki Baek of KOSHA signed MOU to get rid of nation-wide concerns over chemical accidents that have been occurred frequently, and to guarantee safety of workers related.

The MOU was signed in SK Energy located in Nam-gu, Ulsan-si on May 6. The third parties of the MOU are: KOSHA, SK Innovation and Ulsan City.

Ulsan is one of industrial cities in Korea where Ulsan Petrochemical Complex is located. The city also experienced a series of chemical accidents recently, being required to come up with thorough safety management.

Considering that workers from partnered companies are in charge of large companies’ chemical plant arrangement and repairing, it is important to set prevention policies to keep them safe at work.

In that sense, KOSHA decided to sign MOU with SK Innovation to develop jointly safety management model on maintenance, in its efforts to prevent injuries of 60 partnered companies and 3 subsidiary companies as well as SK Energy headquarter.

The content of the MOU between KOSHA and SK Innovation includes: conducting risk assessment against hazardous and risky works outsourced by partnered companies; developing and spreading work safety standards for the partnered companies; developing safety training material; supporting workers’ OSH training.

Meanwhile, Ulsan city helps work places at Ulsan Petrochemical Complex be equipped with safety management model developed by SK Innovation and KOSHA through the MOU, in an effort to make the community safer than ever before.

A person from KOSHA said “this MOU was forged followed by meetings where 30 representatives from the top management of chemical conglomerates gathered to come up with prevention actions against chemical accidents.” adding that the memorandum would serve as an opportunity to spread OSH information across establishments and lay a firm ground for preventing accidents.

President Hun-ki Baek from KOSHA(left), Mayor Maeng-woo Park of Ulsan(middle) and Mr. Koo, CEO of SK Innovation(right) are taking a picture