Occupational Safety and Health Act — Article 2 (Definitions)

The terms used in this Act are defined as follows: <Amended on May 26, 2020; Aug. 8, 2023>1. "Industrial accident" means any death, injury, or disease of a person who provides labor caused by structures, equipment, raw materials, gas, vapor, powder, dust, etc., related to the duties, or by work or other duties;2. "Serious accident" means an industrial accident prescribed by Decree of the Ministry of Employment and Labor, resulting in death or other severe damage or causing a number of victims;3. "Employee" means an employee prescribed in Article 2(1)1 of the Labor Standards Act;4. "Business owner" means a person who operates business by employing employees;5. "Representative of employees" means a person that represents a labor union organized by more than half of employees, if any, or that represents more than half of employees in the absence of a labor union organized by more than half of employees;6. "Contract" means, regardless of how it is referred to, assigning another person the manufacturing, building, or repair of articles, the provision of services, or other duties;7. "Contractee" means a business owner who awards a contract for the manufacturing, building, or repair of articles, the provision of services, or other duties; provided, a person placing an order for construction works shall be excluded herefrom;8. "Contractor" means a business owner who is awarded a contract by a contractee for the manufacturing, building, or repair of articles, the provision of services, or other duties;9. "Relevant contractor" means, where a contract is executed in several stages, any contractor who is awarded a contract for any stage of such contract;10. "Person placing an order for construction works" means a person who awards a contract for construction works without taking the lead in supervising and managing the implementation of the construction works; provided, any person who is subcontracted for any contracted construction works shall be excluded herefrom;11. "Construction works" means any of the following construction:a. Construction works defined in subparagraph 4 of Article 2 of the Framework Act on the Construction Industry;b. Electrical construction defined in subparagraph 1 of Article 2 of the Electrical Construction Business Act;c. Information and communications construction projects defined in subparagraph 2 of Article 2 of the Information and Communications Construction Business Act;d. Firefighting system installation referred to in the Firefighting System Installation Business Act;e. Construction works to repair the national heritage under the Act on the Repair of National Heritage;12. "Safety and health checkup" means conducting investigation and evaluation for the purpose of identifying potential risks and establishing countermeasures for improvement to prevent industrial accidents;13. "Working environment measurement" means collecting, analyzing, and evaluating samples after a business owner formulates a plan to measure hazardous factors regarding his or her employees or workplace to ascertain the actual status of the working environment.