Hyundai-Kia to host '2024 Gyeonggi Region Government-Corporate Automotive Partners Safety and Health Forum'

Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Motors held the '2024 Gyeonggi Region Government-Company Automotive Safety and Health Forum' at Rolling Hills Hotel on Monday (20th). The event was attended by Kang Woon-kyung, head of the Gyeonggi Regional Office of the Ministry of Employment and Labour, Song Seok-jin, head of the Gyeonggi Regional Headquarters of the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Cho Tae-hyun, head of the R&D Safety and Environment Office at Hyundai Motor Company, and Lee Hyo-beom, senior manager of Hwaseong Safety Facility at Kia Motors.

The Automotive Safety and Health Forum is a communication forum designed to spread safety culture and strengthen safety and health capabilities across the automotive industry, led by the Safety Culture Implementation Task Force, which was launched last year. The Safety Culture Practice Task Force was launched last year to develop a nationwide safety culture practice movement and promote the importance of safety at industrial sites and in everyday life, and currently consists of 34 government, local government and private organisations. Kia joined the Gyeonggi Region Safety Culture Action Task Force last year and Hyundai joined this year.

At the Automotive Safety and Health Forum, Hyundai-Kia announced plans to strengthen safety and health to secure higher safety and health capabilities for its automotive industry partners in the Gyeonggi region. First, the company will provide practical support such as consulting with specialist organisations and providing protective equipment, and safety training for each company's construction safety personnel, while jointly preparing various legal documents and inspecting construction sites to help transfer safety capabilities.

We will also raise employees' awareness of safety and health through various campaigns, and provide programs for regular safety diagnosis and inspection of activities so that unexpected safety accidents can be prevented in advance. In addition, we plan to hold regular forums for the establishment of a safety culture so that suppliers can effectively utilise the 'Occupational Safety and Health Diagnosis' provided by the Ministry of Employment, Labour and Welfare and the Korea Safety and Health Institute.

"Safety is more important than anything else in the industrial field, but smaller suppliers have difficulty acquiring information about the system and strengthening their capabilities," said a Hyundai-Kia official, adding, "We will actively support each actor in the automotive industry to carry out safety and health activities autonomously."

"We look forward to working together through the forum to communicate and exchange information on occupational accident prevention," said Kang Un-kyung, Gyeonggi Regional Director of the Ministry of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, "and actively support them to strengthen their safety and health capabilities."

Meanwhile, Hyundai Motor Group has been making various efforts to promote the shared growth of its suppliers in the automotive industry, including signing a business agreement with the National Information and Communication Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA) late last year to secure the software competitiveness of its suppliers, and recently signing an agreement with the Ministry of Employment and Labour to promote win-win cooperation in the automotive industry.

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