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Problems and Countermeasures in the Construction Industry Application of the Serious Accident Punishment Act

중대재해처벌법의 건설업 적용 문제점 및 대응방안

  • Jung, Joong-Sup (Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, Hanbat National University) ;
  • Seo, Jun-Hyeok (Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, Hanbat National University) ;
  • Lee, Dong-Hyung (Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, Hanbat National University)
  • 정중섭 (한밭대학교 산업경영공학과) ;
  • 서준혁 (한밭대학교 산업경영공학과) ;
  • 이동형 (한밭대학교 산업경영공학과)
  • Received : 2022.05.04
  • Accepted : 2022.06.08
  • Published : 2022.06.30
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Abstract

The Act on the Punishment of Serious Accidents to Prevent Large-scale Disasters, including Ferry Sewol and Taean Thermal Power Plant, passed the National Assembly on January 8, 2021, and has been in effect since January 27, 2022. However, the law, in which the representative of the headquarters is unlimitedly responsible for each worker's accident, is somewhat unreasonable at a time when a company owns dozens to hundreds of construction sites due to the nature of the construction industry. I agree with the purpose of enacting the law to reduce chronic serious accidents at construction sites, but it is necessary to carefully reconsider the implementation of the law in that punishment alone cannot achieve industrial safety. Previous studies focused on revising the Occupational Safety and Health Act, but there are few studies on the impact on the construction industry after the implementation of the Serious Accident Act. Therefore, this study attempts to derive problems related to the application of the Serious Accident Act and present improvement measures. To this end, after analyzing previous studies, SWOT analysis was performed by applying the Delphi method to derive strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. In addition, the results of two surveys of safety experts such as public institutions, academia, and companies were reflected, and its countermeasures were presented as follows. S/O strategy: establishing on-site execution capabilities of health and safety management system; W/O strategy: expanding legal and system execution checks; S/T strategy: establishing a risk response system; W/T strategy: expanding consulting by external specialized institutions

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