KOSHA helps Myanmar for OSH technology

KOSHA signs an OSH IA(Implement Agreement) with Myanmar

July 24 2013

○ Director General Baek Rak-moon of KOSHA and Director General Win Shein of Myanmar’s Factories and General Labour Laws Inspection Department sign a policy consulting project on July 23 at Yangon Hotel in Myanmar.  

○ This project is part of the Ministry of Employment and Labor‘s ODA-supported 2013 policy consulting program for employment and labor policy. Under this arrangement, KOSHA will help Myanmar set up OSH foundation.

- The Myanmar government plans to enact an OSH law within this year with policy advice and technology consultation from KOSHA.

- To this end, KOSHA will provide joint workshops, training programs in Korea for Myanmar government officials, and advice on OSH laws.

○ Joint workshops aims to see the current OSH status in Myanmar and to discuss support measures.

○ Before this agreement, KOSHA signed a similar project with the Department of Labor and Employment of the Philippines to provide support to the Philippine government in OSH for one year from July 2012 including joint seminars, 3 consulting sessions on OSH, and training for Philippine officials.

○ Director General for Planning of KOSHA Baek Rak-moon, in his speech, said, “This project will contribute to establishing occupational safety and health system in Myanmar, a country of great economic potential. Hopefully two countries continue to work more closely together.”

Mr. Baek and Mr. Win Shein are exchanging the agreement.

Officials from KOSHA and its counterparts from Myanmar are taking a photo after signing the agreement (Director General Baek, second from the right in the first row).