POSCO Chairman Choi Jung-woo Emphasizes Safety in First On-Site Visit of the New Year

Choi Jung-woo, Chairman of POSCO (second from the left in the front row), visited the Pohang Steelworks site on the 7th as his first activity of the new year, inspecting the facilities and emphasizing safety.

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Soyeon] Choi Jung-woo, chairman of POSCO, emphasized "safety" as the top core value during his first on-site visit of the new year.

Chairman Choi visited the Pohang Steelworks on the 7th and plans to visit the Gwangyang Steelworks on the 8th. Upon arriving at the Pohang Steelworks, Chairman Choi first visited the POSCO Labor Union and the Labor-Management Council offices, greeting the union chairman and others, and urged both labor and management to work together to create a safe and healthy workplace.

He then visited the hydrogen plant, continuous casting plant, and the 2nd electrical steel sheet plant in sequence. The hydrogen plant is a facility that extracts hydrogen from natural gas (LNG), the continuous casting plant produces slabs, which are semi-finished products, from molten iron produced in the blast furnace, and the 2nd electrical steel sheet plant produces electrical steel sheets used as key materials for future eco-friendly infrastructure such as electric vehicles, hydrogen vehicles, and wind turbines.

At the site, Chairman Choi reiterated the importance of making safety the top core value and turning the workplace into a place for a happy life.

In his New Year's address, Chairman Choi stated that safety is the most important matter that POSCO employees should focus on this year. He also emphasized the belief that "I protect my own and my colleagues' safety," urging the active identification and immediate improvement of outdated safety facilities and unsafe environments, as well as the full installation of smart safety devices.

Chairman Choi also requested that all capabilities be concentrated to secure the initiative in the future growth engine of the hydrogen business.

On the 8th, Chairman Choi will move to the Gwangyang Steelworks, visit the POSCO Labor Union Gwangyang branch and the Labor-Management Council offices, and then visit the automotive steel sheet production plant and lithium production plant in sequence.

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