Safety helmets that protected workers' lives reborn as 'Safety Umbrellas' protecting children

Upcycling Project for Used Safety Helmets

Safety helmets are reborn as umbrellas, continuing the life of the 'safety guardian.'

Discarded safety helmets from industrial sites are being repurposed as 'safety umbrellas' to prevent traffic accidents among vulnerable children in the community.

The Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency (KOSHA), under the Ministry of Employment and Labor (Chairman An Jong-ju), held a ceremony on the 19th to deliver upcycled safety umbrellas made from discarded helmets in collaboration with Save the Children Eastern Regional Headquarters (Director No Seong-hoon).

Safety helmets from industrial sites are being reborn as safety umbrellas that protect children and are being distributed.

This delivery ceremony was held as a follow-up to the 'Multilateral MOU for the Expansion of ESG Management through Upcycling of Discarded Safety Helmets' signed by the agency last year.

The agency collected safety helmets that protected workers' safety from nine companies including GS Construction, upcycled them, and produced 167 'safety umbrellas.' These will be distributed to six local children's centers in the Pohang area through the international relief and development NGO Save the Children.

Pohang has been the region with the highest frequency of child traffic accidents in Gyeongbuk over the past five years.

The safety umbrellas produced this time were designed in yellow with a school zone speed limit (30 km/h) marking to help drivers easily identify children and exercise caution while driving, in line with the purpose of preventing child traffic accidents.

Chairman An Jong-ju of the agency said, “In addition to the upcycling project of discarded safety helmets, we will strive in various ways to develop the local community through the establishment of a resource circulation cooperation system. We hope that the 'safety helmets' that once protected industrial workers' safety will be meaningfully used as 'safety umbrellas' for children.”

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