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Since January 27th 2022, the Serious Accidents Punishment Act has been applied in phases to workplaces with 50 or more employees

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Regardless of business type, the Serious Accident Penalty Act applies equally to workplaces with five or more employees

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Therefore, the need to apply safety and health measures for office workers working in places

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with relatively negligent safety and health management measures has been raised

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We will discuss office safety measures together

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What is office safety management?

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According to Article 646 of the Industrial Safety and Health Standards Regulations

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"Office" means an indoor space in which an employee conducts their work

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and according to Article 39 Paragraph 1, Subparagraph 1 of the Act, the term "office pollutants" means

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substances floating in the air of an office, such as gas, steam, dust, mold, bacteria, and viruses

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 that can cause health problems to workers

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In other words, office safety management refers to preventing

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accidents and disasters in an indoor space where workers handle office work

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Office workers are those whose main job is mental work

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and work mainly at office desks

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On the other hand, non-office workers are those whose main tasks require physical work

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mainly working in the field such as manufacturing, production, and construction

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Let's look at examples of office workers

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Office and desk workers such as executives, managers, administrators, office assistants, human resources, planning, labor, public relations workers

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bookkeepers, accountants, sales, designers and more

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Among employees of educational institutions, cram school instructors, kindergarten teachers, assistant teachers

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Among those involved in culture, arts, broadcasting, and performance, television writers, news casters, designers

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There are also financial, securities, and insurance workers such as bankers, securities brokers, loss adjusters, as well as architects and draftsmen

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Then what are non-office workers?

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Simple labor workers, equipment and machine operators and assembly workers, direct sales workers

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Sales workers whose main duties are door-to-door orders and collection services

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Flight attendants, sailors, motorists, hairdressers, cooks, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, medical technicians, and field reporters

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Among employees of educational institutions, technical instructors, training instructors, and childcare teachers at daycare centers

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Among those involved in culture and arts, broadcasting, and performance, producers, actors, choreographers, camera and sound operators

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Among the workers in the insurance industry, insurance recruiters, soldiers and military personnel, and fire fighters

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Now let's look at the harmful factors of disaster accidents in the office

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The first work environment factor is indoor air quality 

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Office pollutants are substances that float in the office air and can cause health problems to workers

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 such as gas, steam, dust, mold, bacteria, and viruses

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The office space has respiratory dust of various sizes that can accumulate in

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the alveoli through the respiratory system

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Indoor air pollutants can be classified into pollutants generated indoors

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and air pollutants around the building

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Pollutants generated indoors include carbon dioxide, vapor, and odor generated from workers


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combustion gas, dust, cigarette smoke, and ozone and electromagnetic waves generated from office equipment

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Radon, VOC, formaldehyde generated from building materials or office furniture

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and bacteria and microorganisms in air conditioners

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Air pollution around the building includes smoke from surrounding roads, combustion gases for heating,

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and waste gases emitted from factories and power plants

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It is important to ensure sufficient illumination in an office that mainly works on computers

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Without this, it can affect eye health

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The first work condition factor is that the work requires sitting down for an extended period

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Since office workers work long hours sitting in chairs

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it can lead to lack of exercise and various health problems

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The second factor is that most require computer-based work

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Extended computer use can affect eye health due to

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glare from the monitor

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The third is long work hours

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According to the "2022 National Work-Life Balance Survey"

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conducted by researcher Soojung Byun et al, at the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs

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Office workers work about five hours longer per week than sales and service workers

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Now let's look at the factors impacting health problems

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Office work is often done by moving small muscles

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such as fingers in a fixed position for a long time

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therefore there is a high risk of developing musculoskeletal diseases

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In the case of office work, 58.6% of workers said

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they use repetitive hand movements or arm movements during almost all working hours

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About 70% of workers said they use repetitive hand movements


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or arm movements for three-quarters of their working hours

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The prevalence of musculoskeletal diseases by region was 40.4~56.8%

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symptoms were most seen in order, back, arm, leg, shoulder, neck


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There are largely three harmful factors that affect musculoskeletal diseases

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in places such as the hand, wrist, neck, and back

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Direct harmful factors include repetition, load, improper posture, and contact stress

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Indirect harmful factors include exposure time to harmful factors, complex occurrence of harmful factors

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environmental factors, and organizational factors

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And other factors unrelated to work include physical conditions, hobbies

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computer use at home and diabetes

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Office tasks that burden the musculoskeletal system are classified by

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Article 3 of the Notice on the Scope of Musculoskeletal Burden Work and the Method of Investigating Harmful Factors

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into two categories

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Subparagraph 1 concerns operating a keyboard or mouse for over four hours per day

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 such as intensive data input

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Subparagraph 2 concerns work that require repetition of the neck, shoulder, elbows, wrists, or hands

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 for over two hours per day

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An example of a health problem is computer vision syndrome (CVS)

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CVS refers to various physical and mental disorders that occur when

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working with a computer keyboard while looking at a monitor for long periods of time

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CVS can cause forward head posture

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where the neck is angled to the front like a turtle


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Chronic fatigue is also a big issue

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According to a survey conducted by this research team, 71.1% of respondents complained of fatigue

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A survey conducted by the Korea Information Technology Industry Union also found

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that 82.2% answered they experienced chronic fatigue

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I also cannot leave out the issue of job stress

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This research team used a job stress factor measurement tool for Koreans

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and researched job stress factors among IT workers and found that

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the level of job stress was higher than the median of Korean male workers in the areas of

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job demand, relationship conflict, and workplace culture

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Now let's look at the factors related to accidents

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First, you could slip and fall on the floor or step on an obstruction


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You could trip or slip down the stairs due to poor visibility in the hallway or stairwell

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You could also bump into a door and fall when opening a door

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Or you could trip on a file box, or a file cabinet can tilt over or

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your hand could get stuck in the cabinet

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In the case of a rotating chair, you may tilt over or the chair may slip and fall

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or trip over  an electric cord

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In the case of equipment in a drawer, you may get stabbed with a knife or scissors, or get a papercut

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Electrical appliances can cause fires due to overheating

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Or you could get rolled over or pricked by office equipment

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You could also hurt your back while carrying heavy items

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Also, fire can also be caused by cigarette butts or overheating

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Then let's look at actual accident cases

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This is an example of a fall, which is after working on a computer for a long time while sitting at a desk


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the employee stood up from the chair to get water and stumbled 

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and fell, spraining left ankle

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There was also a musculoskeletal disease incident where tenosynovitis occurred on the digitus tertius due to extensive keyboard use

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For a mental illness case, while working at a computer operating business, due to job-related stress the employee was

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diagnosed with anxiety, depression, insomnia and acute stress and received medical treatment

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They were then diagnosed with autonomic dysfunction due to stress but experienced continued symptoms such as insomnia and resulted in death

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For cerebrovascular disease, there was a case where the employee experienced an accumulation of overwork and stress due to increased workload 

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Due to the inclusion of new tasks in addition to existing work

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they experienced mental and physical overload, while discussing this matter with HR


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due to accumulated stress, they had a cerebral hemorrhage and is now recuperating

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As an example of jamming, while taking out the shredded paper from the bottom of a paper shredder to clean the interior

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the shredder was turned on resulting in the fingers getting jammed between the blades

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As an example of a burn, a multi-tab got caught in a hole under the partition

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while replacing the partition

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To take it out they used a driver to disassemble and while reassembling it

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they touched the wire and was electrocuted by 220W for 304 seconds

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 causing burns to the right thumb and left palm