ESG Report 2022-2023 - Flipbook - Page 45
HIGHLIGHTS
INTRO
ESG MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Bolstering a Self-initiated Safety Management
System
Building a safety-driven culture
To build a safety-driven culture across the board, we circulated a
SHE management message which highlighted the fundamental
principle of ‘establishing a safety culture to fully align all
employees with the Company’s basic tenets and principles’ as
part of the CEO statement in the first half of 2021. Our mid/
long-term strategy and management principles also each
reflected ‘minimizing and preemptively responding to health
and safety risks’ and ‘safety, health and environment (SHE)
management’ as keywords to embed a safety culture into all
our daily business operations. We also raised the ratio of SHE
assessment metrics in assessing the performance of all health &
safety-related organizations to ensure that we put safety first in
everything we do.
Ratio of SHE assessment metrics (unit: %)
10
30
2020
2021
Risk assessment and improvement
We perform regular and ad-hoc risk assessments to identify
and improve hazards and risk factors in the workplace.
These assessments are based on employee engagement,
and risk factors identified as such are prioritized along with
implementation plans to make improvements. These assessment
and improvement activities are reflected in the specifics of our
goals and action plans established at the worksite and managed
accordingly.
PRIORITY AREA
APPENDIX
Bolstering the health and safety system
To effectively manage our existing frequency-severity indicator,
we have segmented it into the frequency rate of injuries and
the severity rate of injury-related lost work. To prevent incidents
before they ever occur, we stipulated the ‘essential safety
principles’ and the ‘5 Golden Rule’s, and selected key mandatory
leading safety indicators – operating the occupational health
and safety committee, identifying and improving unreasonable
practices to prevent injuries, and engaging in special SHE
activities - to perform quantitative assessments and monitor and
prevent fatal injuries and incidents in so doing. Our occupational
health and safety committee and health and safety council
meets regularly to serve as communication channels to collect
employees’ feedback and make necessary health and safety
improvements while regular health and safety training, new
hire training, special health and safety training, and supervisor
training are conducted to further raise employees’ health and
safety awareness and prevent accidents. We also realigned
our SHE organization and reorganized our accident prevention
monitoring group and risk prevention center to increase staffing
and improve expertise while establishing global SHE investment
operation plans and processes, while stipulating standards
and amending regulations for emergency SHE investments
to improve our health and safety operations in a substantial
manner. In addition, standards and procedures were developed
to evaluate the qualifications of subcontractors to fulfill our
health and safety obligations and ensure the safety of the
subcontract work performed. We received third-party consulting
to assess our domestic plants for their safety culture and facility
system, and continue to pursue improvements based on the
assessment outcomes.
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and risk factors as well as risks, and established a system
to perform risk assessments on at least a half yearly basis.
Such efforts have allowed us to develop and operate an SHE
compliance audit system. This helps us to efficiently respond
to the compliance reviews performed on the work of health
and safety management supervisors required by the Serious
Accidents Punishment Act which took effect in January 2022
along with other relevant laws and regulations.
Achieving the Safety Management Excellence Lab
Certification
The Safety Management Excellence Lab certification program
was designed to reinforce the safety management capabilities
of the science and engineering labs at research institutes
and to explore and disseminate standard models for safety
management. Led by the Ministry of Science and ICT, this
program awards certification to labs with excellent performance
in safety management performance and activities through
expert assessments. Our Technodome achieved this certification
for its Flat-trac CT+ lab and chemical analysis lab in 2020, along
with three more labs – tire noise measurement lab, friction
energy lab, and viscoelasticity property lab – which were certified
in 2021. Such successes can be attributed to the multi-faceted
efforts made to develop new lab layout standards to prevent
safety accidents occurring in the lab environment. With this,
our Technodome has come to have five certified labs under the
Safety Management Excellence Lab program, which serve to yet
again demonstrate its top-notch safety management capabilities
in Korea.
Achieving ISO certifications and operating a health and
safety oversight system
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Bolstering employees’ health management
Establishing a musculoskeletal disease prevention and
response system
To prevent musculoskeletal diseases at our domestic plants, we
performed work analyses and identified necessary improvements
by leveraging such human ergonomic analytics programs as
RULA and NLE. Not only do we pursue facility improvement and
employ work assistance devices to decrease workloads through
engineering improvements, but we also continue with managerial
improvements. This includes alerting employees to the risks of work
that is burdensome on the body and conducting hazard surveys and
handling their results.
Strengthening support for health check-ups
We have created a tailormade health check-up operation table
through labor-management consultations to provide employees with
a wider spectrum of advanced check-ups to choose from appropriate
to their age, gender and job, aside from mandatory check-up items.
This helps employees take the initiative in managing their health more
efficiently and systematically. We also improved our health check-up
program to extend its scope to include spouses of our employees.
Building an illness management system
Amid the spread of the unprecedented global pandemic, we hosted
weekly communication meetings to share the responses made by
each worksite and response guidelines to ensure workplace safety
and minimize any disruption to our production and operations.
Detailed COVID-19 prevention guidelines were also implemented,
which exceeded those of the government, to stipulate the measures
to follow when infected and the distancing rules to uphold in
preventing further spread of the virus.
Bolstering work environment management
In the second half of 2021, we simultaneously achieved both the
ISO 34001 health and safety management system certification
and the ISO 14001 environmental management system
certification. Leveraging the PDCA cycle methodology, we
organized SHE compliance audit tools to manage SHE hazards
Panoramic view of the tire noise measurement lab
The health and safety advisory committee, composed of external
health and safety experts, operates to systemically manage risks
concerning workplace health issues, including but not limited to
work-related illnesses in the tire industry, and the handling and use
of chemical substances. In 2022, we plan to organize and operate a
task force team to improve the plant’s indoor ventilation system and
replace substances subject to management with superior alternatives.