The Gumi National Forest Management Office of the Korea Forest Service (Director Yoon Soo-il) announced that it conducted occupational safety and health training for its on-site workers from November 20 to 21 by inviting the head of the Jeonbuk branch of the National Safety Management Promotion Agency, who is a professional instructor in industrial safety education, Mr. Park Hae-yong.
This training was conducted as a statutory mandatory education under Article 29 of the Industrial Safety and Health Act, aimed at strengthening the prevention of industrial accidents and enhancing safety awareness among employees working on-site.
About 40 on-site employees, including members of the wildfire disaster special firefighting team, participated in the training. Participants also conducted a safety and health culture promotion campaign to continue the ‘Safety Accident Zero’ initiative until the end of this year, fostering a voluntary participation atmosphere.
Additionally, the Gumi National Forest Management Office took the time to share representative cases of regulatory innovation by the Korea Forest Service. They highlighted achievements in forest sector regulatory reform, such as the relaxation of admission fee exemption criteria for national natural recreation forests from families with three or more children under the age of 19 to families with two or more children.
Im Yeh-kyu, the safety and health management officer at the Gumi National Forest Management Office, stated, “Since the forest site is highly prone to safety accidents, the voluntary participation of on-site workers is the most important aspect. We will actively respond to the prevention of safety accidents through field-oriented education and campaigns.”