KCCI, SME Training for Major Accident Prevention

The Korea Employers Federation announced that it will conduct training to strengthen the capabilities of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in preventing major accidents starting from the 21st.

This training is aimed at business owners and safety and health officers of SMEs nationwide who are vulnerable to industrial accidents. It was prepared to support the safety management of small and micro enterprises that are inadequately prepared following the expansion of the Serious Accidents Punishment Act to workplaces with fewer than 50 employees starting from January this year.

The training will be held at 13 locations nationwide over about a month until the 24th of next month, with cooperation from the Ministry of Employment and Labor. The instructors consist of personnel from the Korea Employers Federation, academia, the Ministry of Employment and Labor, and the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency. The program will cover topics such as establishing safety and health management systems, practical risk assessment, and workplace response measures in the event of major accidents.

The Korea Employers Federation plans to officially launch a Comprehensive Major Accident Response Center around the end of this month. The center will create related manuals and provide support services such as legal consultations and linkage with government prevention projects. The Federation stated, "Although the government is actively conducting prevention projects, there are limitations in supporting all 830,000 small enterprises, so the business community must actively carry out industrial accident prevention activities at the management level."

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