KT, SKT, LGU+, SK Broadband Promote Vehicle Safety Awareness
[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] Government agencies and telecommunications companies have joined forces to launch a joint campaign aimed at establishing a "Safe Korea" in industrial workplaces.
The Ministry of Employment and Labor and the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency held a launch ceremony on the 5th for the "Ministry of Employment and Labor·KOSHA and Four Telecom Companies Joint Safety and Health Vehicle Campaign."
This campaign is being conducted jointly by the four leading telecom companies representing the telecommunications industry: KT, SK Telecom, LG Uplus, and SK Broadband, to raise public awareness of safety and health.
The campaign will be carried out by attaching the campaign’s key slogans to a total of 3,500 work vehicles, which will operate nationwide, and is planned to continue for more than six months starting from December.
Earlier, since the beginning of this year, the four telecom companies have been voluntarily operating the "Four Telecom Companies Safety and Health Council," which includes safety and health executives and department heads from each company, to improve the safety and health standards of the domestic telecommunications industry.
This council shares safety and health trends, new technologies, accident cases, and cooperative safety and health win-win measures with partner companies, and this campaign also originated from a proposal by the council.
On November 30, the Ministry of Employment and Labor announced the "Serious Accident Reduction Roadmap," which focuses on a self-regulatory prevention system centered on risk assessment rather than post-regulation and punishment, aiming to reduce the fatal accident rate to the OECD average level by 2026.
Ryu Kyung-hee, Director of the Occupational Safety and Health Headquarters, emphasized, "Achieving the roadmap’s goal of drastically reducing serious accidents is only possible when all members of society regard safety as an important value and when a safety culture is established. A safety culture must be supported to become an advanced safety nation."
Director Ryu also stated, "This campaign is significant in that it was carried out voluntarily by the four leading telecom companies to prevent industrial accidents among telecom workers as well as to improve public safety awareness."
Participants in the joint campaign expect that the vehicles of the four telecom companies traveling nationwide will contribute to improving awareness of safety culture.
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