Labor Chief Conducts Special Inspection of Hyundai Heavy Industries Ulsan Following Major Accident

On-site inspection in Ulsan on the 25th... Ordered company representatives to "prepare recurrence prevention measures"

At Hyundai Heavy Industries Ulsan Shipyard, labor and management officials inspect the site where a worker in his 40s died in an accident on February 5. (Image source=Yonhap News)

[Sejong=Asia Economy Reporter Moon Chaeseok] Kwon Gisub, Director of Labor Policy at the Ministry of Employment and Labor, on the 25th personally inspected the special labor supervision site at Hyundai Heavy Industries, where 20 serious accidents including welding falls occurred over five years, and ordered the company representative to "prepare measures to prevent recurrence."

This was to focus on verifying whether Hyundai Heavy Industries, as the contractor, properly complies with safety and health measures to protect subcontracted workers, and whether the headquarters' safety and health management system is functioning, and to urge the company to adhere to safety rules. The inspection will continue until the 28th.

Director Kwon visited Hyundai Heavy Industries headquarters in Ulsan that day and emphasized, "Serious accidents can only be reduced if the safety and health management system is properly established and operated from the headquarters to the field."

He added, "I ordered the company representative to thoroughly analyze Hyundai Heavy Industries' safety and health management system, prepare their own recurrence prevention measures, and actively implement them."

Meanwhile, on the same day, Director Kwon held an emergency video conference with industrial accident prevention chiefs from regional offices in Busan, Ulsan, Tongyeong, Changwon, and Mokpo, and instructed them to take proactive measures such as special inspections and safety and health diagnoses at high-risk workplaces under their jurisdiction where accidents have occurred.

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