KOWEPO Devotes Itself to Ensuring Safety of Worksites

President Park Hyung-duck of Korea Western Power (KOWEPO) and other KOWEPO executives gesture at a ceremony to declare the “D-100 Safety Campaign” designed to uproot serious industrial disasters, at KOWEPO headquarters in Taean, Chungcheongnam-do, on Sep. 25. (Photos: KOWEPO)

Korea Western Power (KOWEPO) held a ceremony to declare the “D-100 Safety Campaign” designed to uproot serious industrial disasters, at KOWEPO headquarters in Taean, Chungcheongnam-do, on Sept. 25.

Work sites in Taean, Pyeongtaek, Seoincheon, Gunsan, Gimpo and Gumi held similar declaration ceremonies on Sept. 22 to launch the campaign the following day.

KOWEPO has held “D-100 Safety Campaign” to uproot serious industrial disasters every year since 2019. This year’s drive, being under the theme “Keep the Basic, Achieve Disaster-Free 100 Days,” will last for 100 days until the end of this year.

KOWEPO has been prioritizing the prevention of accidents, such as falls and collisions, and conducting innovation activities designed to raise awareness of the prevention of accidents in cooperation with its cooperative companies. Cooperative companies will keep a flag marking their disaster-free status as a symbol of their success and transfer it to another cooperative company in a relay campaign.

Officials with cooperative companies wear a badge with “D-100 Safety Emblem.”

KOWEPO President Park Hyung-duck has made efforts to ensure the safety of cooperative companies by offering outreach consulting services.

KOWEPO President Park Hyung-duck, presiding over a 2023 anti-disaster drill at KOWEPO headquarters, holds a teleconference with Taean Power Complex on Sept. 25.

President Park made a round of safety consulting services, touring cooperative companies for two weeks from Sept. 22. The latest tour was the fourth overall.

The outreach consulting tour has established itself as a window to communicate with its cooperative companies.

President Park and other executives have visited power complexes, such Taean, Seoincheon, Gunsan and Pyeongtaek sites, in that order and awarded disaster-free cooperative companies, shared outcomes of solving pending issues, debated the safety management situation and examined safety awareness.

KOWEPO has solved 17 out of 21 pending safety issues explored by cooperative companies and the remaining four cases are in the process of considering taking steps.

A cooperative company official said cooperative companies have sensed that worksites are changing into safe ones thanks to KOWEPO’s concern and support toward safety.