Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service: "Overcome Industrial Accident Trauma with Forest Healing"

Korea Forest Welfare Institute and Psychological Stability Support Business Agreement

The Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service (Director Park Jong-gil) is launching a forest healing program to help overcome trauma caused by industrial accidents.

On the 22nd, the Service announced that it signed a memorandum of understanding with the Korea Forest Welfare Institute to jointly promote the "Psychological Stability Support Project for Industrial Accident Workers and Their Families."

This agreement was established to utilize forest welfare services in the "Industrial Accident Workers' Family Program," which helps workers who have experienced industrial accidents overcome trauma and return to daily life and work more quickly and healthily.

Park Jong-gil, Chairman of the Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service (left), is signing a business agreement on the 22nd with Nam Tae-heon, Director of the Korea Forest Welfare Institute, to jointly promote the "Psychological Stability Support Project for Industrial Accident Workers and Their Families."

The Industrial Accident Workers' Family Program is divided into the "Family Harmony Program," which heals the psychological and physical stress of industrial accident workers through family relationship recovery, and the "Family Empathy Program," which designs the career paths and futures of their children.

Through this agreement, the "Industrial Accident Workers' Family Program," which had been conducted on a one-time basis in some areas, will be operated continuously for six months from May to October at five locations nationwide, including the National Forest Healing Center and the National Forest Experience Center.

This means that more industrial accident workers will be able to participate in the program more easily and nearby. Applications will be accepted through the Service and the Institute starting in April.

Beginning with this year's "Industrial Accident Workers' Family Program," the two organizations plan to continue cooperating to expand customized forest welfare services for industrial accident workers so that they can regain psychological stability and return to society and work promptly.

Director Park Jong-gil said, "Helping workers who have suffered industrial accidents return to their jobs healthily through psychological stability is the Service's most important role," adding, "This memorandum of understanding will significantly contribute to improving the quality of life for industrial accident workers and their families, as well as the development of social insurance and forest welfare sectors."