It passed the plenary session of the National Assembly on January 8, 2021, and will be applied to companies with more than 50 workers from January 27, 2022, and will be implemented in 2024 for businesses with less than 50 workers. Businesses with less than 5 employees are not eligible. It is a law that has raised the level of punishment from the revision of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (also known as the “Kim Yong-kyun Act”) that took effect on January 16, 2020, and there is a difference that business owners are also held legally responsible. According to the Serious Accident Act, if a worker dies in a safety accident, the employer or manager can be sentenced to more than a year in prison or fined up to 1 billion won, and the corporation can be fined up to 5 billion won. If a worker is injured or sick, he or she will be sentenced to up to seven years in prison or fined up to 100 million won. As a result, both GB Soft and myung Jang (meaning :masterpiece) are being commissioned as a major countermeasure to construction, civil engineering, and general industrial sites, manufacturers, and logistics.GB soft is a biometric image-based system that analyzes workers’ conditions with artificial intelligence to index solutions. And MYUNGJANGESD CO.,LTD.
specifically has patents for electrical installations and use. It can be perfectly protected from short circuits and electric shocks. The key is to safely distribute electricity. As a result, short circuits and electric shocks do not occur. To prove this, we put the outlet directly into a depth of about 30 centimeters and proved to use electricity directly, but no electric shock occurred.It means that the number of deaths from industrial accidents compared to the population of Korea is 10 times that of the UK, is it true?
According to the current status of industrial accidents compiled by the Ministry of Employment and Labor, the total number of deaths from industrial accidents last year was 2,262, of which 882 died in accidents.
Considering that Korea’s population is 51,821,669 based on the National Statistical Office, the number of deaths from industrial accidents per 1 million people is about 17.01 (throwing away less than the third decimal place).
In the case of the UK, according to statistics from the Health and Safety Agency (HSE), 111 workers died in industrial accidents in fiscal 2019 (a year from April 2019), with a total population of 68,207,711, slightly less than one-tenth of Korea’s deaths.According to a comparison and analysis report published by the Korea Institute for Construction and Industry in September last year, the number of accident deaths per 100,000 industrial workers in Korea was 3.61, far exceeding the average of 2.43 in 35 OECD member countries at that time, after Canada (5.84), Turkey (5.17/2016), Chile (4.04), and Luxembourg (3.69)
The number of accident deaths per 100,000 industrial workers in Korea was at the top of the OECD from 2010 to 2016, which was lower than that of Turkey, Canada, Chile, and Luxembourg during this period.However, the number of accident deaths per 100,000 workers in the construction industry (2017) was 25.45, the highest among OECD member countries, more than three times the OECD average of 8.29.On the 8th, the Ministry of Employment and Labor formed 650 teams to inspect 1,900 places, including construction, manufacturing, and logging, across the country.
The Ministry of Employment and Labor plans to focus on three major safety measures, such as falling, entrapment, and wearing safety protective equipment.On the morning of the 17th, officials are making a safety diagnosis at the site of the collapse of the new Hyundai I-Park apartment in Hwajeong-dong, Seo-gu, Gwangju, before dismantling the tilted tower crane.
In particular, the inspection added key safety measures for transportation and unloading operations in the manufacturing industry. Additional inspections include driving qualified persons and prohibiting access to dangerous places, preventing harmful and dangerous tasks by management supervisors, preparing preliminary surveys and work plans, and restricting use other than main purposes.
This year, 25 deaths occurred in the manufacturing industry alone. In addition, the Ministry of Employment and Labor explained that the largest number of injuries (2 out of 10 people, 19.3%) occurred in the transportation and unloading of manufacturing industrial accidents over the past three years. On the 24th of last month, the Ministry of Employment issued a “risk alert” for the entire manufacturing industry and asked for the implementation of safety measures.
In addition, the Ministry of Employment and Labor stressed that in order to recur the accident, the workplace itself needs to investigate all industrial accidents, such as accidental accidents and injury accidents, and share the results. Accident reports can also be submitted in electronic documents, and if not submitted, they may be subject to disadvantageous measures such as imposing fines.Kim Kyu-seok, director of the industrial accident prevention policy, said, “As the purpose of the industrial accident investigation is to prevent the recurrence of similar accidents in the future, it is important to accurately investigate and implement measures to prevent recurrence.”He then asked, “If an industrial accident occurs for more than three days of closure, an industrial accident investigation table should be prepared and submitted to the local employment and labor office in charge.”In this way, even when looking at statistics and presentations, industrial accidents have become important issues for both for business owners and workers. So I think the two companies mentioned above are clearly necessary for disaster and prevention
▲ GB Soft Co., Ltd.
▲ CEO : Ki-bum Park
▲ http://gb-soft.co.kr
▲ gbsoft@gb-soft.co.kr
▲ +82-53-716-4884
▲MYUNGJANGESD CO.,LTD.
▲ CEO : Min-Ju Kim
▲www.myungjangesd.co.kr
▲ mjesd0603@naver.com
▲ +82-32-575-1601
Jennifer Kim
Asia Journal
