Seminar on the Role and Direction of 'Safety and Health Diagnosis' for Major Accident Prevention Held

KOSHA Shares Government Policy and Diagnostic Best Practices

The Ministry of Employment and Labor (Minister Lee Jeong-sik) and the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency (Chairman Ahn Jong-joo) held a seminar titled "The Role and Development Direction of Safety and Health Diagnosis for the Prevention of Serious Accidents" at 10 a.m. on the 6th at KINTEX in Ilsan to mark the "2023 Industrial Safety and Health Month."

Safety and health diagnosis is a system in which specialized institutions investigate and evaluate various hazardous processes and equipment to identify potential hazards and risks and establish improvement measures.

This seminar was held at a time when a paradigm shift in industrial safety and health is taking place, following the enforcement of the Serious Accident Punishment Act in January last year and the establishment and announcement of the Serious Accident Reduction Roadmap (November 2022).

It was organized to discuss the role of safety and health diagnosis as a key tool for preventing industrial accidents and its future development direction with various stakeholders, including specialized institutions, academia, and workplaces.

A seminar addressing the development direction of safety and health inspections for the prevention of serious accidents is underway.

At the seminar, private diagnostic institutions, Korea Safety and Environment Science Institute Co., Ltd. and Hankyung S&C Co., Ltd., shared excellent cases of safety diagnosis. Additionally, Professor Moon Kwang-soo of Chung-Ang University and Professor Choi Yong-seon of Inje University presented thematic studies on the role of diagnostic institutions for the effectiveness of safety and health diagnosis and development plans based on case studies of overseas safety and health diagnosis procedures.

The Ministry of Employment and Labor and the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency presented plans to enhance the substance of diagnostic projects in response to changes in safety and health trends and the policy utilization of safety and health diagnosis amid the paradigm shift in industrial safety.

Following this, under the moderation of Professor Woo Jong-kwon of Korea National University of Transportation, the presenters of each topic formed a discussion panel to focus on the development direction of safety and health diagnosis and held a Q&A session with seminar attendees.

Ahn Jong-joo, Chairman of the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency, stated, "We hope to reorganize the safety and health diagnosis system by reflecting the various opinions presented at this seminar and that safety and health diagnosis will play a central role as a means for workplaces to establish a self-regulatory prevention system."

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