사업장 산업재해예방활동과 산재보험요율 적용 연계방안

Industrial Disaster Prevention Activities in Workplaces and A Plan to Apply the Related Workers' Compensation Insurance Rate Choi, Jae Wook** MPH,. PhD, Department of Preventive Medicine, Korea University College of Medicine Institute for Occupational and Environmental Health Korea University. Object: The purpose is to diversely seek the alternatives to the supplement plans for increasing the investment to prevent industrial accident and formulate policies for applying the scheduled rate system in Korea. Methods: Through the status analysis of the worker's compensation insurance and the industrial accident prevention fund of Korea, the issues involving the systematic or financial management of the worker's compensation insurance and industrial accident prevention plan have been analyzed, and with the pre-condition of applying the scheduled rate systems of foreign worker's compensation insurances in Korea, the analysis is further undertaken on the status of the special merit system (program to reduce the insurance premium) of Japanese labor disaster insurance, the scheduled rate system of Germany (praemienverfahren), and the scheduled rate system of the US for further reference. Results: The supplement plan for the short-comings of the investment system of the current rated rate system of 8% may be presented largely in 3-fold: 1) method to invest the costs as much as required under the industrial accident prevention plan, 2) method to deliberate and resolve the investment rate for certain period (for example: 5 years or 10 years) by the National Assembly, and 3) maintain the present fixed rate system (8%) and adjust the investment rate for higher rate. In addition, in order to apply the scheduled rate system, it would be required to apply the scheduled rate system first for the KOSHA 18001 and the risk evaluation project from various industrial accident prevention plans that are expected to expand its implementation as they are currently implemented by the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency. Conclusion: KOSHA 18001 and the plan to link the scheduled rate system to the risk evaluation project may be a sensitive agenda for all bodies of labor, management and government that it is required to make the determination by the stipulation of all bodies of labor, management and government after going through the reviews of labor, management, government, academy as well as relevant experts.