기후위기 대응을 위한 산업안전보건법 개선방안

This article addresses the pressing issue of climate change and its profound impact on occupational safety and health. It highlights the unique vulnerabilities faced by workers, who are often exposed to dangerous conditions exacerbated by the climate crisis. The article emphasizes the need for comprehensive policy efforts to mitigate these risks, particularly through greenhouse gas reduction and adaptation strategies to prevent work-related illnesses and injuries linked to climate change. In addition, it calls for urgent, layered interventions to manage immediate occupational health and safety risks. The article further argues that any proposed reforms to labor laws in response to the climate crisis must be grounded in a societal consensus that embraces the need to reduce production and consumption. The industrial policies of the past 200 years, which have prioritized resource maximization and mass consumption, are now yielding consequences in the form of climate-related crises. To address these challenges, the article suggests that a collective shift toward reduced consumption is essential and frames the question of a just or fair transition as one of how to equitably distribute the burdens of this transition. From an occupational health and safety law perspective, the article underscores the importance of ensuring that no specific group of workers disproportionately bears the costs of climate change. Policy responses must aim for fairness both between labor and capital and within the workforce itself. The article concludes by asserting that only by recognizing the climate crisis as a shared responsibility can a new social contract be formed, one that prioritizes reduced production and consumption for the greater good.