Korea Forest Service Operates Safety Forestry Project Team for 'Serious Accident Prevention'

The Korea Forest Service announced on the 3rd that it will establish and operate the "Safety Forest Project Improvement Task Force (TF)" until the end of this year.

On the 3rd, at the Government Daejeon Complex, Nam Seong-hyun, the Commissioner of the Korea Forest Service (first from the right), and Lim Sang-seop, the Deputy Commissioner (second from the right), among others, are holding a meeting of the "Safety Forest Project Improvement Task Force (TF) Promotion Team." Provided by the Korea Forest Service

The task force will be temporarily operated until the end of the year, led by the Korea Forest Service Commissioner as the head and the Deputy Commissioner as the deputy head, organized into 2 divisions and 7 teams.

The main role is to develop improvement measures for overall forest projects to enhance safety at forest project sites and to establish a field-centered safety forest project foundation.

To this end, the Korea Forest Service will operate the task force by dividing it into safety policy and project improvement divisions, regularly conducting on-site discussions with stakeholders and monitoring the progress of implementation.

The Safety Policy Division will focus on developing policies to prepare for major accidents, analyzing internal and external issues to establish proactive response measures. It also plans to operate a field response team to strengthen communication with the field and ensure realistic policy formulation.

The Project Improvement Division will supplement detailed execution guidelines for projects to fundamentally resolve causes based on past types of safety accidents and prepare improvement measures for vulnerable personnel and machinery sectors regarding safety.

Nam Seong-hyun, Commissioner of the Korea Forest Service, said, "Through the operation of the task force, we will improve the system to ensure safety throughout the entire process of forest projects, strengthen on-site inspections, and discover improvement tasks that have a high sense of impact."

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