Since 2003, KILSH has done many activities for workers’ safety and health in Korea. We participated in a labor movement to demand that musculoskeletal system disorder should be approved of occupational disease, fight against increase of work intensity, fight for women workers who had a mental illness at Hitech to be approve of occupational disease, fight to remove double-shift in two consecutive weeks and night shift in the auto industry and the steel industry, fight for health and labor rights of those who work at the electronics industry and fight for abolition of dispatched student placement.

1) Monthly magazine

We publish monthly magazine to inform activities of KILSH and to raise workers’ awareness of health rights. It is the only magazine which cover labor safety and health issues in Korea.

2) Working time research center

Working time research center study how working time has an effect on an individual, family, workplace and community. We aim to shape public opinion about what a good change of working time is.

3) Medical center for workers

Some of our members are running a hospital and medical center in Hwasung province. The Gonggam(means sympathy) medical center is working for helping SME workers, precarious workers and migrant workers.

4) Promoting youth workers’ right

We are working to promote the youth workers’ right to health. We strive to improve vocational high school lab conditions and try to raise the dispatched industrial field trainee system issues.

5) “Stop Now” : Right to Suspend the work

It is a safe workplace where workers in an unsafe or dangerous working environment must be able to stop the work and avoid situations. Right to Suspend the work is not only to prevent serious disaster but also to allow workers to control the workplace. We are making researches and activities for keeping the right to suspend the work.

6) International Solidarity

We are working to create a solidarity between Asian and international workers’ health and safety activities. We participated in the ban on asbestos and joined the network for workers’ health and human rights in the semiconductor electronics industry.

7) Health and human rights of women workers

We believe that a gender perspective is also necessary in the field of occupational safety and health. So we conduct research and solidarity to ensure the health and human rights of women workers.