Daegu Labor Office Conducts Intensive Inspections at Pohang, Gyeongju, and Uljin Construction Sites... 5 Fatalities from Serious Accidents

The Daegu Employment and Labor Office (Commissioner Kim Gyuseok) will intensively conduct industrial safety inspections focusing on small and medium-sized construction sites with insufficient safety measures in the eastern region of Gyeongbuk.

Since last September, five people have consecutively died due to major accidents in the construction industry in the eastern region of Gyeongbuk, and four of these incidents occurred at small and medium-sized construction sites with budgets under 5 billion KRW. This represents a sharp increase compared to the same period last year and accounts for 71% of similar scale accident cases in Daegu and Gyeongbuk.

Daegu Employment and Labor Office.

The Daegu Employment and Labor Office plans to utilize a specialized private organization for construction accident prevention within this month to conduct dual inspections in advance, focusing on the implementation of safety and health measures at sites and the functionality of safety management systems centered on supervisors. After receiving the results, starting in November, all labor inspectors from the Construction Accident Guidance Division of the Daegu Office will be dispatched to the Pohang area to conduct intensive supervision together with the Daegu Employment and Labor Office Pohang Branch, targeting sites with insufficient safety measures and management systems. This aims to create an overall atmosphere to eradicate fatal accidents.

Since February this year, the Daegu Employment and Labor Office has been systematically managing all construction sites in Daegu and Gyeongbuk by assigning differential rankings based on risk levels and safety management status. To ensure that safety management centered on supervisors who can directly command the sites is properly implemented, they have produced and are intensively promoting the ‘Supervisor-Centered Safety and Health Management Guide.’ They are also continuously discussing management plans for high-risk workplaces with public institutions such as local governments and education offices, as well as private organizations.

Kim Gyuseok, Commissioner of the Daegu Employment and Labor Office, emphasized, “Although systematic management targeting small and medium-sized construction sites, such as requiring supervisors to verify the implementation of essential safety measures before hazardous work begins, has slightly reduced accidents, temporary efforts have no meaningful impact on reducing accidents. It is important that continuous supervisor-centered safety management is actually carried out at the sites according to the Supervisor-Centered Safety and Health Management Guide.”

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