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About Korean Working Conditions Survey (KWCS)

Korea Occupational Safety & Health Agency(KOSHA), a government-funded institute under Ministry of Employment and Labor, is doing a survey on working conditions in order to establish and correct a safety & health related policy. This survey is done in nationwide to the economically actives population order than 15yrs.

KWCS was originally designed to find domestic working environment to identify how much the employees working in such environment are exposed to hazards or to risk factors depending on types of occupation, business, and employment.

Thereby, OSHRI carried out the (1st KWCS) in 2006 that was intended to collect basic data for the establishment of policies associated with the Industrial Safety and Heath across the country by using the domestic sampling survey. And the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th KWCS were carried out subsequently in 2010, 2011, 2014 and 2017 to collect the data necessary for the buildup of such policies including the information related to changes in the working environment of workers.