KOSHA Launches Safe Workplace Day Campaign in September

September 25 Campaign to Foster and Spread Safety Culture at Construction Sites

The Busan Regional Headquarters of the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency (Director Gong Heungdoo) conducted a campaign for the September Safe Workplace Day at a construction site in Geumjeong-gu on the 25th to foster and spread a culture of safety at construction sites.

The Busan Regional Headquarters of the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency conducted the September Safe Workplace Creation Day campaign on the 25th to promote and spread a safety culture at construction sites.

For this September Safe Workplace Day campaign, staff from the Busan Regional Headquarters of the agency linked the campaign with the on-site inspection day, carrying out safety inspections at construction sites in Geumjeong-gu, a campaign to attach hazard warning signs, and the "Four Prohibitions" campaign.

The four prohibitions are: ▲Prohibition of disabling safety devices ▲Prohibition of operating unfamiliar machinery ▲Prohibition of working without personal protective equipment ▲Prohibition of servicing operating machinery.

Activities included: ①Chanting of safety messages and a street march ②Distribution of banners, OPS, and safety stickers ③Implementation of the Four Prohibitions campaign and the hazard warning sign attachment campaign.

The on-site inspection focused on: ①Roofing works, which increase during the autumn season, and ②The 12 major causes of fatal accidents based on risk assessment.

The 12 major causes of fatal accidents are: edges and openings, steel frames, roofs, scaffolding, ladders, mobile scaffolding, suspended scaffolding, formwork and supports, excavators, aerial work platforms, trucks, and mobile cranes.