Daegu City and Daegu Labor Office Launch Nation's First Certification System for Excellent Industrial Safety Management Workplaces

Final Selection in June After Application Submission

'As Part of Creating a Safe Workplace'

The Daegu Employment and Labor Office (Director Kim Gyuseok), in collaboration with Daegu City (Mayor Hong Junpyo), will implement the certification of excellent industrial safety and health management workplaces among high-risk manufacturing sites in the Daegu area for the first time nationwide in the first half of this year.

The certification of excellent industrial safety and health management workplaces is a system jointly certified by Daegu City and the Daegu Employment and Labor Office for workplaces recognized as having no risk of industrial accident fatalities due to legal violations. This system has been actively promoted since last year by the Daegu Employment and Labor Office as part of the ‘Supervisor-Centered Safety and Health Management’ initiative aimed at preventing industrial accident fatalities caused by legal violations.

Daegu Employment and Labor Office.

‘Supervisor-Centered Safety and Health Management’ refers to supervisors such as team leaders and foremen at the worksite clearly understanding the harmful and dangerous factors involved in the tasks and ensuring that necessary safety and health measures for each harmful and dangerous factor are secured so that workers can perform their tasks safely.

When certified as an excellent workplace, the business receives a certification plaque and certificate, and unless there are special reasons, benefits such as exemption from industrial safety inspections for one year are granted. In particular, among the excellent workplaces, those selected as the best workplaces through a separate application and review process will receive additional incentives such as a commendation from the Mayor of Daegu and a special preferential interest rate reduction of 0.4% on small and medium enterprise management stabilization funds.

The certification of excellent industrial safety and health management workplaces is conducted twice a year, in the first and second halves, targeting manufacturing and other industry workplaces located in Daegu with a ‘high’ grade in supervisor-centered safety and health management.

For the first half of this year, applications will be accepted from April 1 to April 30. In May, on-site inspections and supervisor interviews will be conducted to verify whether supervisor-centered safety and health management has been effectively established at the site, and the excellent workplaces will be finally selected in June. Detailed schedules for the second half will be separately announced on the Daegu Regional Employment and Labor Office website.

Since last year, the Daegu Regional Employment and Labor Office has produced and distributed guides for supervisor-centered safety and health management to efficiently prevent industrial accidents. It has strengthened on-site guidance and self-inspections to ensure that ‘supervisor-centered safety and health management’ is practiced at each workplace, continuously providing guidance to improve safety and health management levels by assigning grades of high, medium, or low to each workplace.

As a result of these efforts to practice ‘supervisor-centered safety and health management,’ the number of industrial accident fatalities at workplaces in Daegu City (including construction sites) decreased by 10 (47.6%) from 21 in 2022 to 11 last year.

This certification of excellent industrial safety and health management workplaces is promoted to rapidly spread and establish supervisor-centered safety and health management at high-risk workplaces in Daegu City, aiming to make Daegu the city with the safest workplaces nationwide.

Kim Gyuseok, Director of the Daegu Employment and Labor Office, stated, “Workplaces certified as excellent in supervisor-centered safety and health management will not experience industrial accident fatalities due to legal violations, and this certification will serve as the most reliable evidence that the management has fulfilled the core obligation of establishing and implementing a safety and health management system under the Serious Accidents Punishment Act.” He added, “I hope more workplaces in our region will apply and receive certification.”

Kim Hyungil, Director of the Disaster and Safety Office of Daegu City, said, “This excellent workplace certification jointly promoted with the Daegu Regional Employment and Labor Office is expected to provide exemplary cases of workplace safety management to business owners experiencing confusion and inconvenience due to the expansion and enforcement of the Serious Accidents Punishment Act.” He added, “Daegu City will continue to listen to the voices from the field and provide ongoing support to prevent industrial accidents in small-scale workplaces.”

The Daegu Employment and Labor Office plans to expand the certification of ‘supervisor-centered safety and health management’ excellent workplaces through separate consultations with Gyeongbuk Province in the future.

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