On-site crew members with Samsung C&T Construction Group look into their protective clothing.

Samsung C&T Construction Group revealed a plan on July 12 to set aside its own safety management costs on top of the mandatory safety management costs to dramatically raise the safety levels of worksites.

Contractors have appropriated somewhere between 1.2 percent and 3.43 percent of construction project costs as safety management expenses to ensure the safety of domestic construction sites in accordance with the Act on Industrial Safety and Health, but there are many cases in which additional investments are needed to cope with a variety of construction site safety situations.

In this context, Samsung C&T plans to make additional safety management costs available immediately if additional steps are considered to be taken.

In particular, each worksite will be guaranteed to have a leeway over the execution and the scope of additional safety management costs so that their utilization may be spurred.

The contractor plans to fully pay out mandatory safety management costs in advance to its cooperative companies on top of advanced payment for the launching of projects.

Mandatory safety management costs will be paid to cooperative companies as planned, a departure from the conventional method of payment based on the confirmed execution, so that cooperative company can invest in ensuring safety even at an early stage.

In the case safety management costs surpass planned amounts, the excess amounts will be settled to cooperative companies.

Samsung C&T plans to strengthen its overall support to raise safety levels of both worksites and cooperative companies.

The contractor plans to support cooperative companies’ obtaining KOSHA certificates on the prevention of industrial accidents from the Korea Safety and Occupational Health Agency and pay compensation money to certificate holders.

Samsung C&T Builds Research Lab on Reduction of Noises Among Apartment Floors

Samsung C&T Construction Group held a ceremony on July 8 to launch a project to build a research lab on the reduction of Apartment floor noises.

The research facility on the study on apartment floor noises, slated to be dedicated in April 2022, is built with four ground floors and one basement floor on a combined floor area of 2,390 sq. meters.

The project, which will cost 10 billion won, calls for building10 apartment units designed to verify studies on apartment floor noises, measurement rooms and experience rooms.

The research facility on the study on apartment floor noises will be the largest one of its kind in Korea.

The apartment floor noise lab facility is designed to comprehensively research and verify the impacts floor noises will have according to four apartment structure types in Korea.

In Korea, four structures types, including Rahmen and wall column structure, will be studied and verified.