Hoban Construction Strengthens On-Site Safety Management System This Year

Hoban Construction Strengthens Safety Management Response System, Organizes Structure, and Improves Systems Through Various Efforts

[Park Cheol-hee, President of Hoban Construction, is conducting a joint safety inspection at the Pyeongtaek Godeok site.]

Hoban Construction announced that it will continue various efforts this year to further strengthen its safety management response system, reorganize its organization, and improve its systems. In fact, Hoban Construction has become an industry model by having no major accidents last year.

Hoban Construction was selected as a target company for the ‘2021 Second Half Construction Industry Voluntary Safety Consulting’ announced by the Ministry of Employment and Labor in July. To qualify for the 2021 second half voluntary safety consulting, companies must have had no fatal accidents continuously from 2019 to 2020 (based on occurrence date), scored 70 or higher in the industrial accident prevention performance evaluation of the bid participation screening criteria, maintained an average industrial accident rate (fatal accident rate) of 0.5 times or less, and have construction sites with a contract amount of 12 billion KRW or more. In addition, Hoban Construction received the highest grade of excellence in the ‘Safety Management Level Evaluation for Participants in Public Construction Projects’ conducted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

Furthermore, from November last year to February next year, Hoban Construction has designated the winter season as a special management period for fire and suffocation accidents, focusing on managing fire extinguishing facilities, heating devices, and hot work at construction sites.

Hoban Construction is strengthening safety manager inspections such as installing safety facilities in fall hazard zones and ensuring the wearing of personal protective equipment. Safety monitoring teams are stationed and managing hazardous work zones such as falling and collapse areas to ensure safety management. They have also established an emergency response system, continuously inspecting and maintaining emergency contact networks, recovery procedures, and equipment.

Hoban Construction consistently strives for safety management by strengthening its safety management response system comprehensively. The company conducts multiple joint safety inspections every month at sites such as the Godeung site in Seongnam City, the Godeok site in Pyeongtaek City, and the Hayang site in Gyeongsan City. This is to solidify the safety management response system and share a firm safety management policy company-wide. Hoban Construction’s President Park Cheol-hee personally oversees the joint safety inspections and is known to frequently visit construction sites near business trip locations.

Hoban Construction is also collaborating with three startups through strategic partnerships to build a ‘Construction Site Safety Management System.’ This system sends immediate alerts to workers if they approach designated hazardous zones or leave assigned locations, which is expected to effectively reduce accident rates.

Moreover, since last year, Hoban Construction has applied its self-developed risk assessment system called ‘HAPS (Hoban Accident Prevention System)’ at each site. Sites conducting nine major high-risk tasks are registered in the ERP system for linked monitoring between the site and headquarters, allowing focused management. Each site evaluates risk levels using a smartphone application, and safety inspections are conducted in real time.

A representative from Hoban Construction’s Safety and Health Team said, “Since last year, we have increased the number of safety monitoring teams at sites by 1.5 times and implemented on-site management during high-risk work to create safer workplaces. No major accidents have occurred this year, and next year, we will reorganize the organization and further strengthen safety management to enhance prevention and control of safety incidents.”

Recently, Hoban Group established the position of Chief Safety Officer (CSO) for the first time in its key affiliates, Hoban Construction and Hoban Industry, during its regular executive personnel appointments and organizational restructuring. Vice President Heo Ok was appointed as the safety representative for Hoban Construction, and Executive Director Kang Seong-dae was appointed for Hoban Industry.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Employment and Labor continues various efforts to prevent construction site accidents this year through safety and health management system diagnostics and supervision, and the publication of explanatory materials related to major industrial accidents. In particular, December, a month with a high risk of accidents during winter, was designated as a ‘Special Safety Emphasis Period,’ urging active safety management efforts centered on construction companies ranked within the top 100 in construction capability evaluations.

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