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Practical Korean workplace safety guides with official sources, diagrams, and field checklists.
Korea's Smart Safety Equipment Subsidy in 2026: What to Check Before Applying
Korea's smart safety equipment subsidy is open again in 2026 on a rolling basis. It covers up to 80% of the agency-assessed cost, capped at KRW 30 million per workplace, and each…
Port Cargo-Handling Safety: Accident Patterns and Field Checks
Port cargo handling moves heavy, long cargo with cranes, forklifts, and transport vehicles through the same space where people work on foot, and vessel schedules keep the pace…
Preventing Falls on Korean Construction Sites: 2025 Data and the First Ruling
Korea's provisional 2025 count of investigated workplace accident deaths was 605, and construction accounted for 286 of them, the largest share of any industry. Falls rose from…
Korea's First Serious Accidents Act Conviction: Reading the Article 4 Duties
Korea's first conviction under the Serious Accidents Punishment Act came on April 6, 2023. It showed for the first time how a court weighs an executive's duty to secure safety and…
Industrial Monitoring Pilots: How to Move From PoC to Operations
The dashboard shows its first anomaly and the pilot starts to feel finished. Operations asks different questions: who reviews the alert, what inspection follows, and who keeps the…
Edge Computing for OT/IT Integration: Where Factory Data Should Be Processed
Send every raw signal to a central system, or leave every decision on a field device? Neither extreme holds up for long. Latency and response requirements, network conditions…
LOTO for Maintenance and Cleaning: A Restart Checklist
A stopped machine is not yet a safe machine. Power can come back, stored pressure or gravity can move parts, and a coworker who does not know the job is underway can restart the…
Acoustic and Vibration Monitoring: Choosing the Right Signal
Teams starting rotating-equipment monitoring tend to hit the same fork first: acoustic or vibration? Neither wins in general. The right signal follows from where the expected…
Condition-Based Maintenance: Define the Decision Before Choosing Sensors
The first question in most condition-based maintenance projects is which sensor to buy. The more useful first question is who will make which maintenance decision when a signal…
2026 Korea Safety Inspection Expansion: Start With the Equipment Register
On June 26, 2026, Korea added certain mixers, crushers, and grinders meeting specified design and size criteria to its mandatory safety inspection program. Filing an inspection…
Safety and health disclosure starts August 1: what to prepare
Three weeks remain until August 1. On that date Korea's safety and health disclosure duty takes effect: under Article 10-2 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, corporations…
Korean Heat-Work Rules: Break Duties by Apparent Temperature
Korean heat-work rules turn on apparent temperature. Work of long duration at 31°C or above counts as heat work under the Rules on Occupational Safety and Health Standards. From…
Korean Serious Accidents Act: Nine Duties and Enforcement Data
Forty-nine guilty judgments. Read alone, that number makes enforcement of Korea's Serious Accidents Punishment Act look rare. The same review counted 1,252 cases, and 917 of them…
Korean Risk Assessment in 5 Steps: 2026 Practical Guide
An operator reports an unusual sound from rotating equipment. What the team does in the next hour says more about its risk assessment than any binder does. The five stages of a…
2026 Korean Workplace Safety Law Changes: Dates and Checklist
Korea's 2026 workplace safety calendar has three dates on it: June 1, June 26, and August 1. The first two have already passed, so worker participation duties in risk assessment…
