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Yielding the effectiveness of occupational accident prevention becomes difficult unless the responsibility of prevention mechanism is fully recognized by the employer and the employers are prominently educated on this matter.
Article 32 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act states about the employers’ education, and with the amendment of Law No. 4220 on January 13, 1990, employers’ job education regulation was established. With the amendment in December 1996, Article 38 of the Ministerial Decree with the objective of reducing incidents was stipulated from “management inspector who manages and inspects the tasks that were involved in occupational accident appointed by the Minister of Labor” to “employers of the enterprises with more than 2 work-related casualties per year.”
However, since there were some problems relating to the contents of the employers’ education system and only the large companies were covered for the serious accidents, the effectiveness of the act was questioned. Thus with the latest amendment of the OSHA, employers and management inspectors’ education mentioned in Article 32 of the OSHA was abolished.
The primary factor for recently plateaued accident rate could be singled out to political errors of occupational prevention projects, but it is in fact the lack of employers’ consciousness and recognition conversion, although in ideal theory, employers should be fully responsible for the workplace safety and health prevention measures.