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KOSHA Busan Regional Headquarters Launches Customized Support

Promotes Self-Diagnosis, Counseling Support, and Large-Scale Diagnosis Campaign

The project ‘Industrial Safety Diagnosis Intensive Week’ was carried out to prevent industrial accidents at workplaces.

The Busan Regional Headquarters of the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency (Director Gong Heung-du) announced on the 19th that it will conduct the Industrial Safety Diagnosis Intensive Week, a customized support project for establishing safety and health management systems, to prevent serious accidents at small and medium-sized enterprises following the expanded enforcement of the Serious Accident Punishment Act.

During the ‘Intensive Week,’ businesses can diagnose the establishment and implementation levels of their safety and health management systems based on a self-diagnosis checklist, and the Industrial Safety Diagnosis Consultation Support Center has started providing customized guidance services for each workplace.

Despite multifaceted efforts such as on-site promotion, individual guidance, collaboration with related organizations, and media publicity, online diagnosis applications accounted for only about 160,000 cases, or 18.9%, out of approximately 830,000 workplaces nationwide, indicating a lack of active participation from the field.

Accordingly, as an urgent measure, the Safety Agency plans to actively promote the project during this Intensive Week, aiming to achieve 600,000 online accesses nationwide and over 300,000 government support applications (both online and offline).

The Industrial Safety Diagnosis Intensive Week will be conducted in two phases: the first from March 18 to 22, and the second from April 15 to 19, focusing on workplaces not linked to government support projects.

Sequential telephone guidance will be provided to workplaces with 20 or more employees who have safety and health managers, and two-person patrol teams will visit sites to encourage participation in the diagnosis project at a total of 100,000 workplaces.

Additionally, on the 26th, an Industrial Safety Diagnosis expansion campaign will be held at the Jeonggwan General Industrial Complex in Gijang-gun. On this day, there will be a street march, safety message exposure promotions, distribution of OPS, raising awareness of on-site safety management, explanations on establishing safety and health management systems, and guidance on customized support projects as part of intensive publicity efforts.

Director Gong Heung-du emphasized, “Through the operation of the Industrial Safety Diagnosis Intensive Week, we hope that more small and medium-sized enterprises can establish systematic safety and health systems, and furthermore, we will devote our efforts to establishing autonomous safety and health management systems through customized support suitable for the field.”