ACT ON THE PREVENTION OF PNEUMOCONIOSIS AND PROTECTION OF WORKERS SUFFERING FROM PNEUMOCONIOSIS

CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1(Purpose) #

The purpose of this Act is to contribute to the protection of workers' health and the promotion of their welfare by enhancing the prevention of the pneumoconiosis and control over the health of workers engaged industry work, and by providing for matters concerning the payment of consolation benefits to workers who has contracted pneumoconiosis and the bereaved families.

Article 2(Definitions) #

The terms used in this Act are defined as follows: <Amended on Mar. 21, 2012; Mar. 29, 2016>

1. The term "pneumoconiosis" means a disease, the main symptom of which is a fibroblastic change occurring in lungs due to inhalation of dust;

2. The term "complications" means pulmonary tuberculosis arising as complications of pneumoconiosis and other diseases as deemed closely related to pneumoconiosis occurring in the process of development of pneumoconiosis, and as prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor;

3. The term "dusty work" means any work requiring handling of earth, stone, rock, or minerals which might cause workers engaged in such work suffer from pneumoconiosis, as prescribed by Presidential Decree;

4. The term "worker" means any worker prescribed in Article 2 of the Labor Standards Act, who is engaged in dusty work;

5. The term "business owner" means a person who employs workers at a business or workplace performing dusty work (hereinafter referred to as "business").

Article 3(Scope of Application) #

This Act shall apply to any business operating dusty work as prescribed by Presidential Decree.

CHAPTER II PREVENTION OF PNEUMOCONIOSIS

ACT ON THE PREVENTION OF PNEUMOCONIOSIS AND PROTECTION OF WORKERS SUFFERING FROM PNEUMOCONIOSIS

Article 1(Purpose) #

Article 2(Definitions) #

Article 3(Scope of Application) #

Article 4(Plan for Prevention, etc. of Pneumoconiosis) #

Article 5 #

Article 6(Physicians Examining Pneumoconiosis) #

Article 7 #

Article 7-2 #

Article 8(Prevention of Pneumoconiosis) #

Article 9(Education) #

Article 10(Health Examinations for Employment) #

Article 11(Periodic Health Examinations) #

Article 12(Interim Health Examinations) #

Article 13(Health Examinations for Retired Workers) #

Article 14(Obligation of Workers to Undergo Health Examinations) #

Article 15(Health Examination Institutions) #

Article 15-2(Evaluations on Health Examination Institutions) #

Article 16(Presentation of Results of Health Examinations) #

Article 17(Relation to Health Examinations under the Occupational Safety and Health Act) #

Article 18(Decision on and Notification of Classification for Pneumoconiosis Control) #

Article 19(Request for Review on Determination on Classification for Pneumoconiosis Control) #

Article 20(Issuance of Worker’s Health Care Pocketbook) #

Article 21(Measures for Pneumoconiosis Workers) #

Article 22(Protection of Persons under Work Transition Measures) #

Article 23(Protective Projects for Pneumoconiosis Workers) #

Article 24(Types and Grounds for Payment of Pneumoconiosis Consolation Benefits) #

Article 24-2(Request for Cooperation to Related Agencies) #

Article 24-3(Protection of Personal Information) #

Article 25(Standards for Paying Consolation Benefits) #

Article 26(Relation to Claim for Damages) #

Article 27(Prohibition of Transfer) #

Article 28(Prescription) #

Article 29(Reporting) #

Article 30(Preservation of Records) #

Article 31(Obligation of Reporting, Attendance, etc.) #

Article 31-2(Duty of Confidentiality) #

Article 31-3(Hearings) #

Article 32(Delegation and Entrustment of Authority) #

Article 32-2(Legal Fiction as Public Officials for Purposes of Applying Penalty Provisions) #

Article 32-3(Penalty Provisions) #

Article 33(Penalty Provisions) #

Article 34(Penalty Provisions) #

Article 35(Joint Penalty Provisions) #

Article 36(Administrative Fines) #

Article 37(Imposition and Collection of Administrative Fines) #