Korea Safety Health Environment Foundation
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Founded Since 1850
Company Description
The Korea Safety, Health, and Environment (SHE) Foundation was established with the hope that the environment of our houses, workplaces, and communities should be as healthy, safe, and sustainable as forests.
Environment, safety, and health have been threatened with sudden changes in society in recent decades. These are closely linked with the sensitivity of citizens and directly related to the morality and public concern of the state and society.
We believe in the virtue of “forest” and the power of “sharing.” We will cultivate talents who can lead the future in the fields of environment, safety, and health. In order to solve the problems and find feasible alternatives, we will cooperate and communicate with various participants in our society.
Founding Principle
In 2014, the issue of ‘occupational disease of semiconductor workers’ of SK Hynix aroused controversy. SK Hynix established the ‘산업보건검증위원회(Occupational Health Verification Committee)’ and delegated the authority to investigate and compensate. The committee has not confirmed the causal relationship between the workplace environment and the outbreak of the disease but suggested the need of the “포괄적 지원보상체계(Comprehensive support and compensation system)”. Compensation scheme not only covers the workers who are currently working for SK Hynix but also the retirees, workers of subcontracted firms, and their children. The compensation plan also includes all the diseases related to the semiconductor occupational disease in order to eliminate the possibility of missing anyone with any casualties and to maximize the range of people who can be compensated.
SK Hynix established the ‘산업보건지원보상위원회(Compensation Committee for Occupational Health Support)’ as part of implementing the committee’ proposal. Subsequently, the ‘산업보건선진화지속위원회(Sustainability Committee on Advancement of Industrial Health)’ was established. This is the company’s effort to deal with semiconductor occupational disease more efficiently and to establish a leading industrial health management system.
Alongside with above-mentioned efforts of the company per se, SK Hynix also agreed to an idea to establish a non-profit foundation in order to cultivate experts in the fields of environment, safety, and health (SHE: Safety, Health, and Environment). Jaeyeon Jang, a professor of Preventive Medicine & Public Health at Ajou University, was appointed as the chairman of the board. The board of directors was formed with distinguished individuals pursuing the public interest. In July 2018, the Korea SHE Foundation was established.
Issues we work on
Core Values
Publicness
Expertise
Transparency
Independency
What We Do
We cultivate talented individuals
We contribute to the development and practice of social values by cultivating future leaders and high potential individuals in the fields of environment, safety, and health in order to gain trust from the public society.
– Cultivating talented individuals as future leaders by providing scholarships for Master’s and Ph.D. degree candidates
– Supporting postdoctoral researchers to work on solving social and national problems
– Supporting researchers to conduct a research on designated topics in the fields of environment, safety, and health
– Fostering talented individuals from developing countries as future leaders
– Holding workshops and academic events for the participant researchers to interact and strengthen their competency
– Running academy for activists for exchanging experiences and strategies.
We create ideas and propose alternatives
We create alternatives and discourses about national and social problems.
We develop and suggest alternatives and discourses in order to solve the problems in the fields of environment, safety, and health in a scientific manner.
– Grants for problem-solving small ideas
– Grants for commercialising and nationalising citizens’ ideas
– Holding forums, seminars, and other academic events for each task
We share concerns and solutions
We share the concerns in the community and provide solutions to the problems in the fields of environment, safety, and health.
We help citizens to raise their awareness and solve problems in the fields of environment, safety, and health.
– Cooperation, commissioned research, and projects for solving local society’s problems
– Projects to help the cooperation of Korean peninsula as well as support the developing countries
– Educational, public relations, and cultural projects to raise awareness in the fields of environment, safety, and health
– Establishment of the ‘Work·Environment·Health Center’ to promote workers’ health.
Contact Us
T. +82-2-6318-9000
F. +82-2-6318-9100
seed@koreashe.org
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