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Best Work Site for Improving Employee Well-being in the Second Half of 2016 | 2017.02.28 | |||||
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Author : KOSHA | The attached file(1) | |||||
□ Korea Occupational Safety & Health Agency (President Lee Young-Soon) announced 12 work sites selected as『the Best Work Sites for Improving Employee Well-being』for the second half of 2016. ? The best work sites for improving employee well-being are selected from those workplaces that submit the application and evaluated through process such as site visit appraisal and examination by labor experts. Six(6) sites were selected in the first half of 2016, and 12 sites in the second half of 2016. ? Key evaluation criteria is top management’s will, degree of cooperation between the labor and the management, employee participation, managing the high risk employees, actual execution of well-being improvement program and continuity of practice.
□ Selected sites executed employee well-being improvement activities considering working environment and individual attributes of employees and provided organizational support for its successful implementation. ? Model example would be providing IT equipment that tracks level of exercise to promote daily exercise consciousness, establishing counselling center to prevent work-related stress and health support program for elderly site workers of subcontractors.
□ KOSHA awards various benefits to those sites selected as the best site for improving employees’ well-being to promote voluntary participation. ? When selected as the best site, a commemorative plaque is awarded that is valid for 3 years. During the period of validity, benefits such as exemption from health check-up and improvement supervision, preferred status for government reward is given. ? After 3 years, re-evaluation is conducted to prolong the validity of the best site award. □ For those sites who would like to apply for the best site selection, application and results of self-evaluation can be submitted through KOSHA’s 6 regional HQs (Seoul, Central(Incheon), Daejeon, Daegu, Busan, Gwangju). ? Applications are open throughout the year and the best sites are selected and announced every half year □ Jang-Jin Ryu, Head of Department of Occupational Health at KOSHA said, “The objective of this program is to promote work sites to voluntarily improve employees well-being, and we ask for interests and participation of many work sites to establish healthy and safe workplaces.” |