Creating Safe Workplaces 'One Team' Emerges... Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency Spreads Safety Culture Campaign

Participation of Construction Safety Council, Korea Construction Scaffolding Association, and Safety Protective Equipment Association

The Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency (KOSHA) is launching the ‘Safety Won Team’ project, collaborating with safety-related institutions and organizations to promote campaigns for creating safe workplaces.

On the 13th, KOSHA signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with key safety councils and related organizations to spread a safety culture in industrial sites and establish a self-regulatory prevention system environment for companies.

Centered around KOSHA, the Construction Safety Council, Korea Construction Scaffolding Association, and Safety Protective Equipment Association are participating in the Safety Won Team.

On the 13th, representatives of major safety-related councils and affiliated organizations signed a business agreement to promote the 'Safe One Team' campaign for spreading safety culture at the Seoul Southern Branch of the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency.

At the MOU signing ceremony held in the morning at KOSHA Seoul Southern Branch, Choi Sung-won, Director of Education and Public Relations at KOSHA, Hwang Jae-yong, Chairman of the Construction Safety Council, Choi Hyung-cheol, Vice Chairman of the Korea Construction Scaffolding Association, and Han Jae-won, Chairman of the Safety Protective Equipment Association attended.

This MOU was promoted to enhance safety awareness among employers, workers, and the public, and to spread a safety culture at workplaces. According to the agreement, the signatory organizations will jointly promote campaigns that continuously expose safety culture slogans and messages at industrial sites.

KOSHA will provide content and materials related to the campaign slogans, while the Construction Safety Council, Construction Scaffolding Association, and Safety Protective Equipment Association plan to encourage their member companies?including major construction firms, scaffolding manufacturers, and protective equipment manufacturers?to participate in the campaign.

Additionally, focusing on construction sites, the campaign will be jointly promoted with the signatory organizations to ensure that safety messages and various safety culture contents are exposed not only to industrial site personnel but also to the general public through internal and external facilities and safety protective equipment at industrial sites.

The Construction Safety Council has 52 member companies, including the top 100 general construction firms. The Construction Scaffolding Association has 274 member companies, including scaffolding equipment manufacturers, and the Safety Protective Equipment Association has 110 member companies that manufacture protective gear.

Choi Sung-won, Director of Education and Public Relations at KOSHA, said, “I believe this provides an opportunity for safety culture to be widely spread not only at industrial sites but also among the general public,” adding, “Through this campaign, we hope that companies’ self-regulatory prevention systems will be established and that a social atmosphere will be created where the entire nation unites to reduce major accidents.”

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