HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Challenges '1000 Days Without Major Accidents'

No Major Accidents Since April 2022
1000 Days Achievement Expected by Year-End

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries employees pledge safe work through TBM (Tool Box Meeting) before starting their tasks. Photo by HD Hyundai Heavy Industries

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries is challenging itself to achieve 1,000 days without a major accident this year, following its zero major accidents achievement last year.

On the 16th, HD Hyundai Heavy Industries announced that no major accidents occurred at any of its business sites throughout the entire last year. The most recent major accident at HD Hyundai Heavy Industries happened on April 2, 2022. Since then, there have been no major accidents for over 1 year and 9 months.

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries has set "achieving 1,000 days without a major accident" as its safety goal for this year. If no major accidents occur by December 27 this year, the company will reach 1,000 days.

The shipbuilding industry is considered a high-risk sector for safety accidents due to its large area, frequent handling of heavy objects, and a large number of workers. HD Hyundai Heavy Industries’ consecutive two-year zero major accident record and its challenge to achieve 1,000 days without a major accident are therefore regarded as highly significant.

To achieve 1,000 days without a major accident this year, HD Hyundai Heavy Industries plans to expand safety management activities, which were mainly conducted by safety and production organizations, into an "Enterprise Safety Planning (ESP)" system involving all organizations and levels such as design, purchasing, cost, and human resources under a firm policy of "Safety First."

In particular, the company plans to focus on ▲ activating worker-centered on-site risk assessments ▲ advancing the safety management system for high-risk tasks ▲ enhancing employee safety capabilities through a safety career path ▲ strengthening the risk response capabilities of the integrated control center ▲ and establishing a total solution system to support internal and external partner companies.

On-site risk assessment is a system where supervisors and workers recognize and share risk factors through daily TBM (Tool Box Meeting) before starting work, enabling safe operations. This year, the company plans to introduce a mileage system to encourage more active participation of workers in risk assessments.

Additionally, by strengthening the triple safety management system consisting of supervisors, safety keepers (department safety officers), and safety personnel, the company will intensively manage high-risk tasks. It will also continuously implement the safety career path, a step-by-step safety education program tailored to employees’ roles and responsibilities, to enhance employees’ safety capabilities and awareness.

Alongside this, the company will advance the intelligent control system based on AI video analysis technology at the integrated control center, and provide comprehensive support to internal and external partner companies through cooperation in safety, shared growth, and asset sectors to improve partners’ autonomous safety management capabilities. To ensure the safety of the increasing number of foreign workers, customized education programs for foreign workers will also be strengthened.

Meanwhile, HD Hyundai Heavy Industries analyzed that the achievement of the "first year without major accidents" last year was due to the company’s full commitment to safety enhancement under the principle of "Safety First." In March 2022, HD Hyundai Heavy Industries launched the "Safety Integrated Management Office" by integrating the safety policy organization and on-site safety organization for organic cooperation between safety and production. Last year, the company also established the Safety Management Committee, which acts as a safety control tower for the overall safety management system.

President Noh Jin-yul of HD Hyundai Heavy Industries said, "Safety is HD Hyundai Heavy Industries’ unchanging top priority value," and added, "We will devote all our efforts this year as well to ensure that workplaces without major accidents do not end with last year but continue on."

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