Seoul City to Identify and Intensively Manage 'Dangerous Construction Sites' in Advance

Seoul City Signs Business Agreement with Seoul Regional Employment and Labor Office and Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] On the 8th, Seoul City announced that it will sign a business agreement with the Seoul Regional Employment and Labor Office and the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency to prevent safety accidents at construction sites.

Seoul City, the Seoul Regional Employment and Labor Office, and the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency will sign a business agreement at Seoul City Hall on the same day to prevent construction accidents.

In response to the recent repeated unfortunate accidents at construction sites, related organizations have agreed to cooperate to prevent safety accidents at construction sites and to promote a safety culture so that precious lives are no longer lost repeatedly.

First, the ‘Seoul City Safety Inspector Squad’ conducts regular on-site inspections of construction sites to identify risk factors for safety accidents in advance and notifies the Seoul Regional Employment and Labor Office. For high-risk construction sites, the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency conducts re-inspections, and the Seoul Regional Employment and Labor Office carries out labor supervision on poor-quality sites in a focused management approach.

Seoul City’s ‘Seoul City Safety Inspector Squad,’ composed of experts with experience in civil engineering, architecture, and disaster prevention, has been active since 2018 and has inspected approximately 7,000 construction sites to date.

They classify high-risk construction sites and identify risk factors in advance, which is expected to greatly help prevent actual accidents. Additionally, a joint campaign to promote safety culture at construction sites will be conducted. Focused publicity on the three major safety measures?fall prevention, entrapment prevention, and protective gear?will be carried out, and safety education to strengthen safety management capabilities will also be supported.

Han Je-hyun, Director of Safety Management at Seoul City, said, "We will inspect construction sites more thoroughly to prevent any further unfortunate accidents, improve any issues, and prevent accidents," adding, "We will actively cooperate with related organizations to spread a safety culture at construction sites."

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