Is Your Workplace Focused on 'Health'? ... Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency Selects 10 Outstanding Health Promotion Workplaces for the First Half of the Year

KOSHA (Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency).

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] Is your workplace ‘healthy’?

The Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency (KOSHA) selected and introduced outstanding workplaces for employee health promotion activities in the first half of the year. Among 20 applicant workplaces, 10 new workplaces and 1 extended workplace were selected.

Workplaces that can proudly claim ‘Our workplace is the best’ include Nanumnuri Co., Ltd., Kookmin Bank Headquarters, National Pension Service (Headquarters), Korea Land and Geospatial Informatix Corporation (Headquarters), Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials, Korea Midland Power Co., Ltd. Incheon Power Headquarters, SK Hynix Inc. Bundang, SK Hysitc Co., Ltd., POSCO Energy Co., Ltd. Incheon Power Plant, and Robert Bosch Korea Ltd. The CJ CheilJedang Inc. Incheon Plant 2 was extended.

KOSHA announces workplaces that actively promote employee health promotion activities twice a year, in the first and second halves.

The workplaces selected in the first half were identified as having relatively high interest and effort from management and employees for employee health promotion, and stood out for operating programs that considered individual employees’ health levels and needs.

The proportion of public institutions among the selected workplaces was higher than ever, and mental health recovery programs and job stress management programs were actively operated to help employees recover from verbal abuse by customers and others.

Director Ahn Jong-joo of KOSHA said, “Health promotion activities at workplaces have been somewhat restrained due to the spread of COVID-19,” adding, “With the lifting of social distancing and increasing interest in workers’ health rights, we expect workplace health promotion activities to be pursued more actively.”

Currently, a total of 107 workplaces nationwide maintain their status as outstanding workplaces for employee health promotion activities.

To be selected as an outstanding workplace, a high level of management is required in seven areas: system establishment, management’s awareness level, organizational culture, health promotion activities, environmental management, program operation (planning, execution, evaluation, feedback), and subcontractor management.

Workplaces wishing to be selected as outstanding workplaces for employee health promotion activities in the second half must submit applications to the agency’s regional headquarters and Gyeonggi regional headquarters, with the deadline on November 30.

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