Korea has shared its knowledge and experience of industrial accidents with Cambodia and Myanmar.
Ten public officers from Cambodia and Myanmar visited Korea to participate in an invitational training workshop on industrial accidents and employment injury insurance from Oct. 11 to 17. It was the ILO-Korea Training Workshop on Employment Injury Insurance, carried out by the Korea Workers' Compensation & Welfare Service (KWCWS), part of the Ministry of Labor and Employment.

Workshop participants attended lectures from experts from the International Labour Organization (ILO) on social security and from a rehabilitation specialist from a hospital in Hamburg, Germany. They learned more about intentional standards concerning social security, and rehabilitation systems for injured workers who wish to come back to the workplace.

There were discussion sessions to introduce employment injury insurance systems in their home countries. Through discussions, they also had an opportunity to review the current status and issues in their own systems and to seek solutions in order to improve the systems.

A staffer from the KWCWS, the program host, said, “Many participants actively engaged in most of the programs, saying that they were quite impressed by Korea’s response to industrial accidents, and praised its technology and rehabilitation facilities.”

Since 2005, the KWCWS has been conducting the invitational workshop training program every year, in cooperation with the ILO, ASEAN and the Ministry of Labor and Employment. A total of 144 civil servants from 18 ASEAN countries have so far participated in the program.

The ILO-Korea Training Workshop began in 2003 when the ministry and the ILO signed a memorandum of understanding. The program aims to provide technical support to countries across the Asia-Pacific region in the areas of social security, industrial safety and health, labor for migrants and vocational training.

By Yoon Sojung
Korea.net Staff Writer
Photos: Korea Workers' Compensation & Welfare Service
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