Industrial Accident Prevention Integrity 'Upgrade' ... Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency, 'KOSHA Ombudsman 2nd Meeting'

Consultation on Monitoring and Evaluating Institutional, Customary, and Power Abuse Factors, and Measures to Improve Integrity

KOSHA (Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency).

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] The Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency (KOSHA) held the ‘KOSHA Ombudsman 2nd Meeting’ on the 10th at the Seoul Southern Branch to monitor and evaluate projects from the public’s perspective for transparent and rational industrial accident prevention projects.

The ‘KOSHA Ombudsman’ is a system where ombudsmen composed of academia and external private experts monitor and evaluate KOSHA’s major projects. It identifies unreasonable systems, practices, and work processes within the agency and recommends improvements to KOSHA.

At this 2nd meeting, they reviewed the implementation status of recommendations proposed by the ombudsmen at the previous meeting and focused on discussing comprehensive measures to improve KOSHA’s integrity level in 2022 to meet public expectations.

At the 1st meeting held on April 7, six projects, including two related to the Serious Accident Punishment Act implemented in January this year, were selected as ‘job activity target projects.’ At that time, ten improvement items, such as expanding the scope of the Clean Project Quick-pass (rapid subsidy support) system, were recommended to KOSHA.

KOSHA plans to check the progress of recommended improvements through quarterly meetings and actively identify and improve institutional vulnerabilities and corruption factors.

Jo Byung-gi, Standing Auditor of KOSHA, said, “We will continuously expand the authority and role of the KOSHA Ombudsman to proactively detect and block internal and external corruption factors within the agency, thereby strengthening the fairness and integrity of industrial accident prevention projects.”

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