Minister of Labor gathers heads of labor offices across the country to "strictly supervise companies that repeatedly cause serious accidents"

Emergency meeting of agency heads to strengthen industrial safety response

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Hyewon Han = Minister of Employment and Labor Kim Young-hoon convened heads of 49 employment and labor offices across the country on the 7th and held an emergency meeting of agency heads to strengthen industrial safety response.

The Ministry of Labor reported that Minister Kim emphasized to the heads of organizations to thoroughly supervise workplaces that have already been inspected and supervised to prevent major accidents from recurring, and to take strict action with a zero-tolerance principle if violations are discovered.

In particular, Minister Kim ordered unannounced re-inspections at time intervals to ensure that violations of the law at workplaces that were inspected and supervised were properly improved.

Minister Kim said, “The Ministry of Labor headquarters should make every effort to promote national tasks such as budget and legislation during the regular National Assembly, and local governments should focus their efforts on supervision so that the people can feel it.”

He went on to say, “We must be aware of the serious problem of companies that have repeatedly experienced the same type of serious disaster,” and asked, “Please think of the supervision of companies with repeated occurrences as the same as special supervision.”

The agency heads then announced the tasks they will focus on to reduce the number of accident deaths for the remainder of this year.