A new application checks whether the workers received basic training on construction safety

9. May.2013.

KOSHA creates and uploads application to help employers check whether day laborers completed basic training on safety and health they hire in the construction work sites.

Under the Article 31(2), the employer shall have day laborers in the construction work sites take basic training on safety and health before they begin working.

In that sense, KOSHA created and uploaded a new application where safety and health managers and related staffs in the construction work site can check whether workers they hire completed training sessions, using their name and date of birth.

When they find any of the workers fail to receive the basic training, they have to provide information necessary on training centers with training schedules and subjects to them.

Also, the safety and health managers and related staffs give answers for frequently asked questions about the construction safety and health.

To use the application, you can access either Android Market or Apple’s Appstore and search with the keyword ‘KOSHA’ to download it.

Meanwhile, the basic training on safety and health is four-hour session and deals with information workers have to know on risk factors and safe works. Workers can take only once to be qualified.

This basic training began last March and covers workers at construction projects with more than KRW 50 billion budget but is going to extend to those with KRW 12 billion budget from June, this year, expected to spread across all the construction sectors at the end of next year regardless of the size of the project budget.

Around 340,000 workers completed the training over the past 14 months since the service began and the information on the training was the most used among others in the website of KOSHA, reaching 200,000 in the number of clicks.

A person from KOSHA said “Lots of work sites are interested in this basic training as shown in the number of clicks in the website.” adding that this application would be widely used as more construction work sites will choose to give their workers the basic training.

image of the application