"Seeking Solutions for Serious Accidents" Hyundai Motor Company-Kyungchong, Promotion of Improvements

Hyundai Motor Company and the Korea Employers Federation (KEF) announced on the 3rd that they held the launch ceremony of the "Task Force for Improving Risk Assessment to Prevent Serious Accidents" at the KEF Hall.

Attending the launch ceremony were Hyundai Motor CEO Lee Dong-seok, KEF Executive Vice President Lee Dong-geun, Ryu Kyung-hee, Director of the Occupational Safety and Health Headquarters at the Ministry of Employment and Labor, former Minister of Employment and Labor Lee Chae-pil, and Professor Ham Byung-ho of Korea National University of Transportation, among others.

Both parties plan to form the task force for the first time in Korea, consisting of safety practitioners and top experts in the field of industrial safety, to improve the risk assessment system of companies.

They will also analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the risk assessment system across all Hyundai Motor workplaces and conduct sample assessments targeting the Ulsan and Jeonju plants to derive improvement measures. A risk assessment work standard tailored to Hyundai Motor's characteristics will also be established.

The risk assessment improvement project is a key follow-up measure to the comprehensive in-depth diagnosis of the safety management system conducted last year, following the first-ever business agreement between an economic organization and a private company in Korea, signed by Hyundai Motor and KEF.

The main background is the increased importance due to the government's industrial safety policy direction, such as the serious accident reduction roadmap, being reorganized into a supervision system centered on risk assessment.

Hyundai Motor CEO Lee Dong-seok said, "This risk assessment improvement task force is a core project to establish Hyundai Motor's self-regulatory prevention system in line with the government's safety policies," adding, "We will actively strive to build a world-class safety management system."

KEF Vice President Lee Dong-geun stated, "Since the government has presented a plan to shift the industrial safety paradigm centered on risk assessment, this year will be an important time for companies to start a major transition to autonomous safety management systems," and added, "We hope the activities and outcomes of this task force will become one of the good benchmarking models for Korea's industrial sector."

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