S-OIL Provides Consulting Support for Partner Companies' Safety and Health System Establishment

Serious Accident Punishment Act Expanded to 65 Small Businesses with 5 to 49 Employees

Win-Win Cooperation Program Including Practical Guidelines for Establishing Safety and Health Systems

S-OIL is strengthening its win-win partnership by providing consulting support to small-scale partner companies that are newly subject to the Serious Accidents Punishment Act, which has been expanded to workplaces with five or more employees starting this year, to help them fulfill their obligations to establish a safety and health management system.

S-OIL is providing consulting support to small-scale partner companies subject to the Serious Accidents Punishment Act to fulfill their obligations in establishing safety and health systems.

From April until the end of this month, S-OIL has carried out consulting support activities for 65 partner companies with between five and 49 employees to help them establish safety and health management systems. The company provided detailed implementation plans, such as setting safety goals, identifying and improving hazardous risk factors at partner companies, and evaluation methods for supervisors, offering practical assistance in building safety and health management systems.

An S-OIL representative stated, "We are meticulously supporting our partner companies with the detailed practical work required to complete system establishment, addressing their difficulties due to lack of experience regarding the expanded Serious Accidents Punishment Act, including securing safety and health obligations, system establishment procedures, and costs. We also plan to provide additional consulting support for establishing safety and health management systems for small-scale partner companies in the second half of the year."

Alongside this, S-OIL has been continuously carrying out various support activities to strengthen the autonomous safety management capabilities of its partner companies. Since 2012, 115 partner companies have participated in the ongoing safety and health win-win cooperation program, which includes regular consultative body safety meetings, joint safety and health inspections, risk assessment training, and support for certification of the risk assessment support system (KRAS), among other collaborative activities.

With support from S-OIL, over 40 partner companies have obtained ISO-45001 (International Occupational Health and Safety Management System) certification, and have also received KOSHA-MS (Occupational Safety and Health Management System) certification established by the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency to comply with domestic laws, as well as risk assessment certification from the agency.

An S-OIL representative said, "We are providing generous support in the field of safety and health to raise our partner companies' safety management levels to that of S-OIL and enhance sustainability. We verify and monitor the entire process and provide motivation for autonomous safety management by awarding workers and partner companies that demonstrate outstanding safety management activities."