What Are the Hazards in Our Workplace? ... Learn Through 'e-Learning'

KOSHA Operates Specialized Risk Assessment Course

1-Week Program with 8 Sessions ‥ 500 Participants Weekly

The Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency (KOSHA) is conducting e-learning training to enable workplaces to establish their own safety accident prevention systems.

The Occupational Safety and Health Training Institute (Director Choi Sang-yeol) announced on the 1st that it will offer a specialized risk assessment course (theory part) as e-learning starting from the 2nd to support the establishment of self-regulatory prevention systems at workplaces.

Although the need for risk assessment training in industrial sites has increased due to the 'Serious Accident Reduction Roadmap' announced at the end of last year, there were limitations on the number of trainees.

This e-learning training is expected to alleviate the demand for in-person training.

The Training Institute plans to significantly expand in-person training, which combines theory and practice, from about 120 people last year to 1,200 this year to cultivate risk assessment experts. The e-learning course was created by producing content only for the theoretical lecture part of the in-person training course.

The e-learning course consists of a total of 8 sessions, covering basic concepts of risk assessment, types of evaluation techniques, and chemical substance evaluation cases. The learning period is one week, and 500 people can take the course each week.

Applications for the training can be made from the 2nd at the Training Institute's online education center, and anyone responsible for practical work within a workplace can take the course free of charge.

Choi Sang-yeol, Director of the Occupational Safety and Health Training Institute at KOSHA, said, "Reducing serious accidents starts with risk assessment, which identifies hazardous and dangerous factors in the workplace and establishes reduction measures," adding, "Through e-learning, we aim to enable more workplace personnel to easily access risk assessment and establish self-regulatory prevention systems in industrial sites."

KOSHA (Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency).

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