On the afternoon of November 30 (Wednesday), Minister of Employment and Labor Lee Jeong-sik visited the Ansan factory in Daewon Industries Co, Ltd (Dongwon-gu, Ansan-si). This visit was made immediately after the government published the “Serious Disaster Reduction Roadmap” at 10 o’clock on the same day.
On this day’s site visit, the importance of implementing a ‘risk assessment’ on the site was confirmed, which is a key way of establishing a “self-discipline prevention system”. The factory of Ansan Daewon Industrial Co., Ltd. have carried out a thorough ‘risk assessment’, and it is known that no one has been injured in an accident during the work after 2021.
Minister Lee Jung-sik said, “Today, the government issued the “Road Map for Reducing Serious Accidents” to create a “safe and healthy workplace, a happy Korea.” It is a paradigm shift to a “system” and he emphasized that ‘risk assessment’ is a key method of the “significant disaster reduction road map”.
Then, he said, “We intend to implement all policy methods and strive to have a ‘risk assessment’ settlement on the site, which was introduced in 2013 and has not settled in the field.” We will make it mandatory step by step. 2025, and we will completely overhaul various government support systems, including industrial safety laws and supervisory systems, to support ‘risk assessment’.”
Based on the knowledge of conducting risk assessments through trial and error and cases of near misses by workers, labor and management conduct joint “risk assessments” and experience in discovering and improving risk factors in the workplace, such as installing equipment. to prevent entrapment, and in the labor management meeting that followed, a risk assessment system was established in which employees could actively participate, and experiences were shared of forming a safety culture through collaboration between labor and management through safety and health events in the workplace.
Minister Lee Jung-sik looked back on the process of removing real risk factors through ‘risk assessment’, and told the workplace, “Continue to show exemplary behavior in improving workplace risk factors along with labor and management. ” as we enthusiastically support the establishment of the system in the field, please make an effort to carry out the ‘risk assessment’ in the field.”
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