Plans for Prevention of Industrial Accidents : Plans for Prevention of Industrial Accidents
Ministry of Labor
Republic of Korea
Major Policy Objectives and Measures : Major Policy Objectives and Measures 1. Focusing on Accident-prone Workplace
2. Promoting Self-regulatory Safety Activities at
Workplace
3. Promoting Workers' Health
4. Strengthening Responsibilities of Labor and
Management
5. Enhancing Industrial Safety and Health System
Slide4 : Stronger Control of Industries with High Fatality Rates √ Construction Industry: countermeasures for common accidents, e.g., falls in construction sites, the no.1 cause for death at workplace.
※ Improving safety management system, expanding accident coverage in construction industry, introducing job risk assessment methods, enhancing regulations regarding tower crane controller license
√ Manufacturing Industry: prevention measures by specific operation types for fatality reduction
※ Types of fatal accidents by specific operation: constriction in ceramic or stone/earth products manufacturing industry: 42.3%, fall in shipbuilding and overhaul industry: 29.2%, fire/explosion in chemical industry: 15.5%
√ Long-term prevention measures need to be implemented for gradual fatality reduction 1. Focusing on Accident-prone Workplace
Slide5 : B. Support for Narrowing Digital Divide √ Improving working environment at workplaces with 50 employees or
less
- Differentiated support levels to encourage self-improvement efforts of
business owners and employees : Expand Clean 3D project implementation
Support resolution of current issues : Implement Safety and Health Improvement Plans
Enhance self-improving capability : Enforce stricter laws
Slide6 : √ Support for Workers Facing Greater Risk of Accidents
- Safety and health promotion and education for women, elderly, foreigners, and temporary workers
√ Collaborated Efforts between Affiliated Companies
- Collaborated safety promotion activities between small affiliated companies, with enhanced responsibility on parent (large) companies.
√ Supervision on Machinery, Equipments, and Protective Devices
- Improved law enforcement system with strengthened market supervision and enhanced inspection regulations for safety of machinery, equipments, and protective devices.
Slide7 : C. Stronger Preventive Measures against Major Accidents √ Expansion of Process Safety Management (PSM) Climate
- Adjust the PSM standards according to those of the advanced countries such as USA and EU
※ Establish the Center for Preventing Major Industrial Accident
- Develop and implement various plans to spread the PSM climate ultimately from the management to employees
※ Develop and spread the PSM climate assessment method and promote 12
best practices for safety management
√ Differentiated Management of SOC Construction Sites, etc.
- Under the Balanced National Development Plan, a number of large construction projects are expected to begin in addition to SOC construction projects
Slide8 : A. Labor-Management Cooperation for Accident Prevention √ Industrial Safety and Health Committee
- Develop committee operation models by industry and encourage best practices while promoting activities by adjusting objectives of assessment based surveys.
√ Honorary Occupational Safety Inspector System
- Examine operations of the honorary safety inspector system and improve the system so that it can contribute to initiating voluntary efforts to prevent accidents by labor and management.
√ Labor-management Collaboration in Accident Prevention Policy Making
- Build a cooperation system with labor and management such as Federation of Korean Trade Unions, Korea Employers Federation etc. and support safety and health training programs, etc. 2. Promoting Self-regulatory Safety
Activities at Workplace
Slide9 : B. Self-regulatory Accident Prevention System √ Reorganization of Safety and Health Management System in Workplace
√ Promotion of Occupational Safety and Health Management System (OSHMS)
- Implement plans to encourage the use of certifications, including offering more incentives to OSHMS-certified workplaces
√ Utilization of Industrial Safety and Health Consulting Services
- Modify the system so that Industry Safety and Health Instructors can provide advice and quality services to workplaces more easily
√ Improvement of Quality of Safety and Health Management Services Organization
- Implement a standards assessment system, publish the assessment results and introduce a penalty system, etc.
Slide10 : A. Prevention of Work-related Diseases √ Preventive Measures Against Musculo-skeletal Disorders
- Provide appropriate guidance and support according to the priorities so that the role of disease prevention can be smoothly transferred to workplaces while constantly revising the system to reflect the reality of workplaces in the long term.
※ Reduce the opinion gap between labor and management on the criteria of the musculo-skeletal disorders-related jobs, develop and implement preventive programs tailored to Korean industry, support labor-management collaboration in preventive programs and enhance supervision of high-risk industries and businesses. 3. Promoting Workers’ Health
Slide11 : √ Preventive Measures against Cerebro-cardiovascular Diseases
- Develop new stress assessment tools tailored to Korean people to build a strong culture of disease prevention in workplace, construct a database of businesses in the top 5 risk-prone industries, and develop occupational disease management guidelines and other plans on an ongoing basis.
√ System for Life-long Healthcare
- Shift from a provider-centered healthcare system to a user-oriented health service system : Customize services for specific worksite, with flexible
service plans and schedules. : Assess the work environment for work hazards and
adjust service plans
Slide12 : √ Worker's Health Promotion Campaign
- Establish regional industrial health care centers, implement health care programs for workers in cooperation with public medical institutions, and introduce 'My Health' program.
※ “My Health” is a health information program with specialized and
customized services for individuals
Slide13 : B. Fostering a Pleasant Working Environment √ Work Environment Evaluation System
- Enhance inspection of workplaces so that workplaces subject to evaluation and the period and frequency of evaluation can be established.
- Implement a comprehensive service-providing system, integrating work environment evaluation, special health diagnosis and health promotion schemes.
√ Workers’ Health Promotion Campaign
- Adopt National Industrial Chemicals Management System
- Improve the classification and clarification criteria to adjust hazardousness
of chemical compounds according to the international standards, and revise the criteria for exposure to risk factors in line with the situation in Korea.
- Implement a comprehensive plan to prevent hearing loss including designation of high-noise area.
Slide14 : A. Making a Law-abiding Atmosphere √ Law Enforcement for Safety Violation
- Implement strict corrective measures against repetitive violation without prior
corrective actions
- Establish a legal basis for aggravated punishment for major accidents caused by
repeated violations
√ Disclosure of Violators’ List
- Develop and implement an improved system for disclosing safety violators 4. Strengthening Responsibilities
of Labor and Management
Slide15 : √ Practical Industrial Safety and Health Regulations
- Collaborate with related organizations to tighten back the regulations eased by special acts (e.g. periodic inspection of power press, etc.)
- Review all safety and health-related regulations from ground, to enhance regulatory efficiency and effectiveness
√ Field Applicability of Inspection/Supervision System
- Revise laws to reflect the changes of industrial structure and include new risk/hazardous factors
- Revise inspection and supervision systems in accordance with actual worksite situations by adjusting the objectives of inspection/supervision, and integrating similar regulations, based on field surveys.
Slide16 : B. Training and PR Activities √ PR System for Life-Long Safety Training
- Implement an on-going education program for mothers and children, in order to raise safety awareness.
- Offer customized life-long safety training system for specific class, generation, business type, scale, etc.
- Build a user-friendly training system, with easy-to-understand contents
Slide17 : √ Effective Safety Culture Campaign
- Implement plans to reduce accidents effectively, e.g., education programs on the risk of working under the influence of alcohol.
√ Expanded Safety and Health Education
- Support for safety training courses in graduate schools or occupational safety and health training institute of KOSHA, such as CEO courses on Industrial Safety and Health Policy.
- Establish the General Safety and Health Exhibition Hall, to operate mobile safety training buses by specialized lecturers, expand on-the-job training and utilize broadcasting media etc.
Slide18 : √ Various safety and health indexes
- Develop various indexes to measure Korea’s industrial safety and health standards comprehensively and systematically.
√ Industrial accident statistics system
- Improve the statistics system to include status by industry and worksite, economic impact, etc.
√ Enhanced Administrative Capability of Guidance and Supervision
- Enhance specialty of industrial safety inspectors, recruit technical labor supervisors, and implement specialty training programs. 5. Enhancing Industrial Safety
and Health System A. Infrastructure for Industrial Safety
Slide19 : √ Improved Regulations to Meet Global Standards
- Upgrade and revise domestic regulations by incorporating ILO standards to meet the global standards on safety and health.
√ SHE –Q Integrated Model
- Develop and implement a SHE-Q Integrated Model, customized for specific worksites, in conjunction with OECD SHE-Q Integrated Model Development Project.
B. Adopting Global Standards on Safety and Health
Slide20 : √ Support for Research Activities on Industrial Safety and Health Policy
- Enhance the role of the Industrial Safety and Health Research Institute of KOSHA as the research hub to promote research activities in the field of industrial safety and health.
- Support basic researches on industrial safety and health in graduate schools to deal with new risk and hazardous factors with the use of new technology and chemicals
√ Cooperation with advanced countries
- Expand scholastic exchange and cooperation with advanced countries to introduce advanced technologies, information, and systems in the field of safety and health.
C. Promoting Advanced Research and International
Exchange
Slide21 : √ Technical cooperation with developing countries
- Expand technical cooperation projects with developing countries including China and Vietnam to expand efforts to improve national image.
- Develop and implement plans for training and technical services for businesses in Gaeseong Industrial Complex of North Korea, to establish effective and systematic safety and health management systems.
Slide22 : Thank You!