Korea Employers Federation Opens Applications for 3rd Safety Culture Innovation Awards: "Discovering Safety Culture Leaders"

Promoting Autonomous Safety Culture Across the Industry

The Korea Employers Federation announced on September 9 that it will begin accepting applications for the 3rd Annual Safety Culture Innovation Awards.

First established in 2024 in the private sector, the Safety Culture Innovation Awards were created to discover corporate cases that have successfully established a safety culture and to encourage the spread of autonomous safety culture and efforts to prevent major industrial accidents across the industry.

Applications are divided into two categories: large enterprises and small & medium-sized enterprises. One company from each category will be selected for the Grand Prize and Excellence Award, respectively.

Evaluations will be based on five criteria: the status of activities to promote a safety culture, the safety and health leadership and implementation efforts by management, the establishment and operation of safety and health management systems, the extent of labor-management cooperation and employee participation, and the level of safety and health cooperation between primary contractors and subcontractors.

This year, in particular, the focus will be on closely examining how the safety culture developed according to the on-site characteristics of each company is actually being implemented in daily work and at the workplace.

The Safety Culture Innovation Awards ceremony is scheduled for early December. The application submission deadline is October 12, and the deadline for submitting supporting documents, such as statements of merit, is October 16.

Lee Dong-geun, Vice Chairman of the Korea Employers Federation, stated, "Safety culture is not something that can be created by a specific system or program alone; it must be embedded in a company's decision-making and the way work is carried out on site." He added, "We hope that corporate cases driving these changes on the ground will be widely discovered and spread across the industry as a whole."

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