Safety guidelines for security guards and parking attendants on features of risk factors and safe working methods

provided by KOSHA, together with ‘fatal accident cases’ of top 3 service sectors in terms of fatal accidents

12^th October

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A security guard aged 72 of the apartment complex located in South Jeon-nam province fell to death from 2.5 meters high of flower bed when he threw away garbage to the dumping ground but he lost his balance, on July 2012.

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A parking attendant aged 68 at a building in Gyung-gi province died of falling from 3.0 meters high of the parking machine on August 2010 as he tried to check the machine after failing to release the car through his remote control.

KOSHA provides materials to prevent fatal accidents in sectors such as management of apartment complex and large-sized buildings, waste treatment, and facility management in the wholesale and retail industries.

The casebook released consists of accidents cases and their causes and prevention measures especially for the three service industries: building management, hygiene and similar service, and wholesale and retail industries.

The research targeting 801 fatal accidents in the service industry shows that more than half of them or 51.8% were accidents in the building management, hygiene and similar service, and wholesale and retail industries.

Original causes of those fatal accidents were mostly cars. By types of accidents, car accidents and fall accidents were two most frequent ones.

<Accident trends of the 3 industries>

*wholesale and retail industries: car accidents(43%), trips(8%), and crushes(7%)

*hygiene and similar service sector: car accidents(44%), falls(18%), collisions(9%), trips(8%) and crushes(7%)

*building management: falls(41%), trips(17%), and collisions(10%)

KOSHA provides the casebooks to work places that are under KOSHA’s technological training and related job associations. The agency also updates its web site so that users can down load the casebook.

The book includes particulars required for business owners and workers as well as OSH act information by sectors, and reasons and responses of accidents. In addition features of accident-causing facilities such as stairs, ladder and fork lifts are included, with safe measures to deal with them.

A person from KOSHA said “Workers in the service sector are working closely with our daily lives.” adding that this casebook would help reduce accidents as part of prevention activities of business owners and job-related associations. End.