GS Engineering & Construction is moving to strengthen its safety management system. GS Engineering & Construction elevated safety management to its top priority at its regular shareholders meeting on the 1st of the previous month by appointing President Kim Tae-jin, the chief safety strategy officer (CSSO), as a co-representative.
GS Engineering & Construction said on the 20th that as Kim's first safety management move after becoming CEO, he visited GS Engineering & Construction sites in Daegu and North Gyeongsang on the 16th–17th to check on-site safety conditions and communicate with workers.
Earlier, as of the 1st, GS Engineering & Construction separated the organization under the CSSO into a department responsible for safety strategy and an operations department that supports on-site safety. By strengthening safety strategy, the company sought both direction and execution for its mid- to long-term safety management. It also plans to objectively diagnose companywide safety levels through regular occupational safety and health consulting by outside professional institutions and to implement, step by step, the improvement tasks derived from that.
It will also upgrade its safety education system. It plans to overhaul the "safety innovation school" in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, and expand the application of existing job-specific professional safety training and hands-on training.