Hyundai Motor Group Holds Award Ceremony for Safety Idea Contest

Hyundai Motor Group awarded outstanding works from its safety idea contest.

On the 29th, Hyundai Motor Group announced that it held the award ceremony for the 3rd Hyundai Motor Group Safety Idea Contest on the 24th at the Hyundai Engineering & Construction Technical Training Center in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul. About 60 executives and employees from group companies, including Kim Geol, Head of Planning and Coordination Office (President) of Hyundai Motor Group, attended the ceremony.

Since 2021, Hyundai Motor Group has been conducting a safety idea contest open to all group employees to prevent major accidents and foster a horizontal safety communication culture within the group.

The contest categories are Execution and Proposal. Prize money is awarded to all winners, with 10 million KRW each for the top winners in each category. This contest received 890 ideas, and a total of 18 works were selected as winners: 9 in the Execution category and 9 in the Proposal category.

In the Execution category, Hyundai Engineering’s unmanned technology using an exterior wall painting robot won the grand prize. This idea reduces the risk of fall accidents by using a dedicated robot for building exterior wall painting work instead of human labor at high places, while improving productivity and quality.

The grand prize in the Proposal category went to Hyundai Steel’s vertically opening and closing safety fence. This fence improves the structural risks of existing opening/closing and detachable safety fences. It prevents worker fall accidents and is easy to install even in narrow spaces. Other innovative ideas honored include Hyundai Engineering & Construction’s technology for preventing concrete collapse and securing worker safety, and Hyundai AutoEver’s intelligent fire alarm solution based on fire location.

Hyundai Motor Group Safety Idea Contest winners are taking a commemorative photo.
[Photo by Hyundai Motor Group]

The winning ideas from this contest will be applied to each company’s workplaces after effectiveness verification. Some ideas will also be applied to other group companies’ workplaces. In fact, the winning ideas from the 1st and 2nd contests have been applied to about 70 workplaces to date. Twelve ideas have been implemented at other group company sites as well, significantly contributing to workplace safety improvement.

President Kim said, "I appreciate the employees actively presenting innovative ideas to create safe workplaces," and urged, "Please continue to actively apply ideas that help improve safety on site so that all workplaces within the group can eradicate major accidents."

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