1. Reasons for Proposal

To prevent recurring accidents caused by the rotating parts of dangerous machines such as mixers, crushers, and pulverizers, this Amendment includes mixers, crushers, and pulverizers within the scope of safety inspections to ensure that protective measures are regularly checked for safety, while at the same time adding mixers, crushers, and pulverizers to the scope of designated items of safety inspection institutions and voluntary safety inspection institutions that carry out safety inspections, and adjusting the scope of practical experience, etc. required for the human resources requirements of safety inspection institutions to reflect reality.

The Amendment also manages the quality of health examinations by restricting the number of people to whom pre-placement health examinations and special health examinations may be administered by each doctor at special health examination institutions, and otherwise addresses and improves upon a number of weaknesses that have emerged from the operation of the current system. 

2. Major Provisions

  A. Expand the scope of safety inspections to include mixers, crushers, pulverizers, etc. (Article 78)

Include mixers, crushers, and pulverizers in the scope of safety inspections to check the safety of protective measures at the operational stage of the machinery.

  B. Adjust the scope of delegation of the organization and operation of standard formulation committees and other duties (Article 116 (1))

Transfer control over the organization and operation of standard formulation committees to the Ministry of Employment and Labor, and prescribe that the scope of delegated duties shall be limited to the sub-committee operation and other matters specified by the Minister of Employment and Labor

  C. Streamline human resources standards for safety inspection institutions, etc. (attached Tables 24 and 25)

Add mixers, crushers, and pulverizers to the scope of designated items of safety inspection institutions and voluntary safety inspection institutions, and include safety management and diagnosis pursuant to the Occupational Safety and Health Act under practical experience in the human resources requirements of safety inspection institutions.

  D. Clarify the applicability of designation limits of working environment measurement institutions (attached Table 29)

Specify that the units of restriction on the number of places of business subject to measurement shall be based on “half-years” (administrative interpretation of current provisions)

  E. Rationalize the annual number of people undergoing special and pre-placement health examinations (attached Table 30)

Prescribe that the annual number of people undergoing pre-placement health examinations, which is currently unlimited, shall be limited to 13,000 people per year including those undergoing special health examinations (10,000 people per occupational and environmental medicine specialist per year).