Abstract

The domestic shipbuilding industry has the world’s best competitiveness through continuous technology investment and manpower development. However, the industry is suffering from the worst shipbuilding and offshore plant market recession in 2008~2017 and it is losing price competitiveness against Chinese shipyards. Recently, international oil companies and state-controlled oil companies have strengthened safety regulations by health, safety and environmental factors in addition to price competitiveness as a prerequisite to the project bidding. However, our shipyard is getting the stigma of ‘kingdom of industrial accidents’ due to ongoing industrial disasters. In order to ensure competitiveness of our shipyards in this environment, it is necessary to apply the high level of HSE standards desired by the ship owners, new technologies such as energy efficiency enhancement, and strict international standards on pollution prevention. Therefore, this study suggests a fundamental solution to shift the paradigm of industrial safety (including education) policy so that industrial accidents can be drastically reduced. In other words, the Korean Shipyard Safety Standardization(KSSS) system should be established to standardize the safety and expand the safety culture by integrating the education and training courses, managing the quality of education, and subjecting the issuance of certificates. Through this, it is necessary to secure the competitiveness of our shipyard by restoring the trust that has been lost from overseas ship owners or clients.

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