Large companies support safety of subcontractor

Best Practice Competition successfully ends

SK energy, Ulsan Complex and Lotte Hotel, Seoul had an honor to be selected as the best companies in the ‘Best Practice Competition on joint cooperation for OSH’, organized to encourage large conglomerates to support safety and health of their partnered subcontractors.

The award ceremony was held in Yousung hotel located in Daejeon on May 3 where president Hun-ki Baek of KOSHA awarded 7 companies that showed great achievements in terms of supporting subcontractors’ safety and health.

Among them SK energy’s Ulsan Complex won the grand prize in the manufacturing sector whose 68 subcontractors joined the OSH joint cooperation programs. The company also released countermeasures against dangers of the subcontractors, based on each of their risk assessment. All of these efforts helped the subcontractors remain in the same level of safety to that of SK energy.

Meanwhile, another grand prize in the service sector was given to Lotte Hotel, Seoul as the company set environment safety team that charges in promotion of joint programs with the subcontractors. This task force team extended its service to hotels in other areas and achieved safety and health management system certification, to lay a firm ground for the OSH system finally.

Lotte hotel’s another efforts include: change of old electrical facilities based on the result of risk assessment; providing of safety ladders for janitors all of which helped improve the working environment.

Doosan Infracore followed the SK innovation as its Incheon Complex promoted training and consulting for its partnered subcontractors. Hyundai Elevator’s Icheon Complex was ranked higher than others for its support of workers at partnered subcontractors with personal protective equipment and cross safety check to reach ‘zero-accident

Hyundai Department Store, Busan, LG MMA, Dongwoo Fine-chem, Pyeongtaek Complex are other companies that won awards.

The ‘OSH joint cooperation programs’ was set by the Ministry of Employment and Labor in 2012, to encourage large companies to help their subcontractors promote safety and health. The top 500 companies in terms of sales are awarded annually based on their performance.

Some 600 large companies and 8,000 subcontractors joined the program last year, leading to help reduce injury rates by over 40%.

A person from KOSHA said that this competition would be an opportunity to spread the best practices contributing to reducing occupational injuries and promoting OSH activities.

Representatives of companies that were awarded are taking a picture with Mr. Shin-jae Lee, Director General for Technology(the 3^rd from the left in the first row) of KOSHA