How Do Developed Countries Do It? ... Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency Shares Industrial Safety and Health Practices from the US, UK, Japan, and Germany Seminar

A seminar is being held to share the industrial safety and health systems and activities of major advanced countries overseas.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] A seminar was held to explore the global direction of industrial safety by sharing the safety and health systems and activities of advanced countries.

The Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency announced on the 7th that it held a seminar sharing the industrial safety and health systems and activities of four major advanced countries: the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Germany.

This event aimed to strengthen South Korea's international capabilities in industrial safety by sharing industrial accident prevention activities and policies of major advanced countries, discussing topics such as the ‘industrial status,’ ‘industrial safety and health legal system,’ ‘ensuring compliance,’ and ‘policies implemented so far’ of the four overseas advanced safety countries.

At the seminar, time was spent exploring the direction of industrial safety and health pursued by the international community through invited lectures by domestic and foreign experts.

Professor Kwon Hyuk of Pusan National University gave a presentation on the topic of ‘Industrial Accident Prevention Policies and System Frameworks of Advanced Countries,’ reviewing cases of major advanced countries that led industrial safety and health as a key national agenda.

Dr. Ulrike Bollmann of the German Social Accident Insurance Association proposed methods to promote industrial accident reduction from an international perspective under the theme ‘International Strategies and Impact for Spreading a Prevention Culture.’

Domestic safety and health experts dispatched by the agency to Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh) and Thailand (Bangkok) to improve safety and health levels in Asian countries also attended.

They shared local policies, systems, and practical application cases in Vietnam and Thailand, discussing strategies to improve industrial safety and health and the importance of a prevention culture for industrial accident prevention.

Song Byung-chun, Executive Director of the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency, pointed out, “To establish internationally standard safe and healthy workplaces, benchmarking of overseas safety and health management systems and industrial safety and health innovation is necessary.”

Executive Director Song said, “We will continue to strengthen international cooperation to build global-level safety and health capabilities.”

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