Gwangju Labor Office Conducts Safety Measures Guidance and Inspection at Construction Sites

Joint Inspection by Gwangju Headquarters of the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] The Gwangju Regional Employment and Labor Office (Director Hwang Jongcheol) announced on the 1st that it will conduct a large-scale joint inspection of 215 factory and warehouse construction sites in the jurisdiction and simultaneously supervise poor-quality sites until the 17th of next month.

The Gwangju Labor Office and the Gwangju Regional Headquarters of the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency (Director Kim Mooyoung) analyzed 76 fatal accidents that occurred over the past five years (2016?2020) at construction sites in the jurisdiction by type of work.

As a result, there were 60 deaths in building construction, 9 in civil engineering, and 7 in electrical, telecommunications, and fire-fighting facilities. Among building construction, factory and warehouse sites (14 people, 31.3%), residential (10 people), neighborhood living facilities (10 people), apartments (9 people), others (8 people), solar power installations (4 people), educational and research facilities (4 people), and religious hospitals (1 person) had the most accidents in that order.

In particular, among factories and warehouses, frequent accidents occurred at ultra-small sites with construction costs under 100 million KRW (7 people) and sites costing between 300 million KRW and 2 billion KRW (3 people).

A Gwangju Labor Office official stated, “We will immediately order correction for sites and business owners with insufficient safety measures, and if they refuse to correct or the corrective actions are poor, we will immediately link to industrial safety and health supervision and take strict administrative and legal actions if violations are detected.”

At factory and warehouse construction sites, basic safety gear must be worn, and industrial safety and health measures must be taken to prevent fall accidents, accidents involving high-risk construction machinery such as mobile cranes, and fires that may occur during welding work.

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