[인터뷰] Lim Hae-jong / President of Korea Gas Safety Corporation… Declared’New Normal Gas Safety Innovation’

“Non-face-to-face safe environment·Customized safety measures·Securing hydrogen facility safety·Strengthening human competency”
“Promoting preventive measures for people’s feelings… Grow as a professional gas safety management organization trusted by the people

[에너지데일리 조남준 기자] The Korea Gas Safety Corporation is pursuing the’New Normal Gas Safety Innovation’ for the prevention of gas accidents and the growth of the gas industry as a major strategy for the new year in 2021. Korea Gas Safety Corporation President Lim Hae-jong said in a New Year interview in 2021, “We will actively promote the’New Normal Gas Safety Innovation’ measures in preparation for the environment changed by Corona 19.” “The’New Normal Gas Safety Innovation’ measure is’non-face-to-face safety’. “Environment establishment”, securing gas safety tailored to the public eye, securing safety of hydrogen facilities, and strengthening human capabilities are key”. Through this, it is a strategy to drastically reduce the casualty rate within three years and grow into a’gas safety management organization trusted by the public’. President Lim also emphasized the need to prepare for the future by enhancing gas safety and enhancing competitiveness that are faithful to the basics such as gas safety. To this end, the company declared’Back to the Basic’ as a management slogan, and as a management policy to support it, ▲ faithfulness of work ▲ deprivation of authority, innovative growth ▲ win-win and social values.
We met Hae-jong Lim, President of Gas Safety Corporation, who is actively promoting social contributions by actively supporting socially disadvantaged groups and small and medium-sized enterprises that have become difficult due to Corona 19, and discovering local and KGS-type jobs.

■ “Active promotion of’New Normal Gas Safety Innovation’ in preparation for the environment with Corona 19

“In preparation for the environment changed by Corona 19, we will establish the’New Normal Gas Safety Innovation’ as a publicly perceived task that reflects the results of the public idea contest for reducing accidents, and will actively promote it for the next three years from this year to 2023.”

President Lim Hae-jong said, “As a key strategy for this, ▲ Establishing a non-face-to-face safety environment with Corona 19 ▲ Securing customized gas facilities and product safety at an elevated level of safety for the people ▲ Safety of hydrogen facilities supporting government policies such as the conversion of the gas industry to eco-friendly fuel Securing ▲ We will promote the reinforcement of human capacity in consideration of the internal environment of the project.”

President Lim said, “With the aim of dramatically reducing the rate of human casualties within three years, the KTO will reflect the advice of expert advisors at home and abroad in the entire process of implementing measures, and will actively strive to promote preventive measures that the people feel through the participation of the public.” .

President Lim said, “Along with securing gas safety for the socially vulnerable, we will actively support small and medium-sized businesses that are difficult to enter overseas due to Corona 19, and actively promote social contribution through discovering local and KGS-type jobs.”

First of all, it is planning to actively promote a timer cock supply project following the’Family Facilities Improvement Project’, which played a role in securing a safety net for the common people for 10 years from 2011 to last year.

According to this, this year, by actively inducing the participation of related organizations such as construction and local governments, 120,000 timer cocks, which contribute greatly to the prevention of fire accidents caused by overheating of gas stoves due to careless handling of the elderly, the disabled, and dementia patients, etc. The policy is to secure a gas safety net for the vulnerable.

President Lim said, “To this end, we will establish a cooperation system with local governments, public institutions, city gas companies, and local companies to secure business budgets, find vulnerable groups in blind spots, and purchase products produced by SMEs. He said, “We will do our best to protect the people’s precious lives and assets from the harm of gas and contribute to the development of the gas safety industry.”

The KTO also announced plans to contribute to the expansion of the saturated domestic gas product market by creating a smooth export environment for SMEs this year.

He said, “We will hold a seminar to support export companies to provide customized export information and support the government’s selection of overseas certification acquisition projects.” We will also provide customized support such as providing certification data and technical support.”

In addition, the company’s intellectual property rights are transferred free of charge to SMEs, and technical training for manufacturers is actively promoted. This is the commitment of the President of the Game to take an active attitude in pioneering overseas markets for SMEs, which are the basis of the gas industry.

In addition, in order to proactively prepare for the post-corona, the company plans to contribute to job revitalization by developing and expanding new job models through discovery of new businesses that can be derived from the company’s own work and non-face-to-face job development.

President Lim said, “Using our experience in job creation, we will strive to create and expand jobs suitable for the post corona through more preemptive and progressive business operations such as the establishment of hydrogen-related industrial systems and discovery of local government collaboration projects in 2021.” “We will make every effort to create and operate KGS-style jobs based on the business characteristics of the company.”

In addition, the plan is to provide additional non-face-to-face online mentoring, employment briefing sessions, and on-site training by applying various projects that have been conducted so far, such as institutional tours, employment mentoring, and on-site training, to suit the post-corona environment to job-prepared students with fewer job opportunities.

President Lim said, “Through this, we will continue to expand safe and beneficial employment communication channels between KDHC and job-prepared students.”

■ Promote fast hydrogen safety measures… Creation of safe hydrogen era

For the rapid leap of the hydrogen economy, the company also announced plans to promote the activation roadmap and comprehensive measures for hydrogen safety management, and to support the vitalization of the hydrogen economy by establishing infrastructure such as a hydrogen experience training center and a hydrogen product testing laboratory.

President Lim said, “To create a safe hydrogen era, the corporation is pursuing various tasks such as securing the safety of hydrogen products and commercial vehicles, expanding opportunities for hydrogen safety education and experience for the public, and nurturing hydrogen safety experts. He emphasized that by promoting safety management measures with a sense of speed, we will make a rapid leap into the hydrogen economy and lead the global hydrogen economy.”

To this end, as of January 1, the KTO expanded and reorganized the Hydrogen Safety Center into the Hydrogen Safety Technology Institute, and divided the existing two teams into a five-part system for each safety management field to strengthen expertise, while also expanding the number of dedicated personnel to 80 to facilitate rapid work execution. It has built a hydrogen safety foundation to make it possible.

In addition, to support the hydrogen economy smoothly, the hydrogen product test center (Hydrogen Bus Parts Test and Evaluation Support Center), which is an essential infrastructure for securing the stability of hydrogen products and commercial vehicles, equipped with 47 types of hydrogen product testing facilities on a gross floor area of ​​3494 square meters, was completed by December 2022. do.

President Lim said, “When the test laboratory is established, it is possible to carry out legal inspections of four types of low-pressure hydrogen products, such as water electrolysis facilities, hydrogen extraction facilities, and fixed and mobile fuel cells, which had a gap in existing safety management. It was expected that the promotion of the hydrogen economy, which secured safety and relieved public anxiety related to hydrogen, would accelerate further.”

The KTO also plans to develop 16 kinds of inspection equipment for large-capacity pressure-resistant containers and hydrogen bus parts in accordance with the government’s expansion plan for hydrogen commercial vehicles, and use them for test and certification by 2023.

In addition, in order to provide the people with the right information about hydrogen, and to provide a space where they can experience and experience it, the first’hydrogen gas safety experience education center’ is being built in Eumseong-gun, North Chungcheong Province, with the aim of opening it in 2022.

President Lim said, “The Hydrogen Gas Safety Experience Education Center will provide opportunities to raise awareness of hydrogen and promote hydrogen safety to the public and experience gas safety, and contribute to vitalizing the hydrogen economy, which will become a more friendly energy source for the public.”

The Gas Safety Corporation is also actively promoting securing and training human resources for safety management of hydrogen charging facilities. President Lim said, “In addition to improving public awareness, KDHC revised some of the Enforcement Decree of the High Pressure Gas Safety Management Act in May 2019 in order to improve the education system for securing and training human resources for safety management of hydrogen charging facilities. The facility’s safety manager (manager and safety manager) was able to be appointed.”

Based on this, it is explained that the Gas Safety Education Center has improved the quality of education by adding contents of hydrogen safety education to the existing curriculum.

President Lim said, “In addition to this, KNOC will contribute to fostering hydrogen professionals through the development of convergence courses with related universities.” “KDHC is committed to securing safety throughout the entire life cycle of the hydrogen economy, including product testing, commercial vehicle component certification, promotion, and education. I will not spare any defense efforts.”

President Lim also emphasized the need to change publicity for gas safety due to Corona 19. Accordingly, the KTO actively introduced untact publicity.

President Lim said, “Public relations is an important project specified at the highest level in the articles of association of the Gas Safety Corporation, and is an essential element for the establishment of a public gas safety culture.” “The Corporation has actively introduced Untact publicity in the face of the recent change in the public relations environment and the turning point of Corona 19 “

Accordingly, it is planning to expand the area of ​​public participation by focusing on online contents such as mobile, single-person broadcasting, webtoon, and untouch by actively reflecting the promotion trend centered on new media in the promotion business in 2021.

President Lim said, “Considering that it is difficult for suppliers to inspect face-to-face due to Corona 19, we plan to induce self-inspection by users by guiding self-inspection items through promotional contents such as promotional videos and flyers.” In order to improve the understanding of the Korean people and relieve anxiety, various contents such as hydrogen question and answer book, planning video, and card news production will be presented, and through this, we will increase public acceptance of gas and hydrogen safety.”

■ 4th industrial technology application education

President Lim also emphasized the need for education using 4th industrial technology, such as toxic gas safety education based on virtual reality (VR) and crisis response scenarios for each situation of refrigeration manufacturing facilities.

He presupposes, “Recently, fourth industrial technologies such as gas boiler control through mobile smart home service, the introduction of smart city gas facilities and piping safety management systems using GIS, and NFC-based gas meter reading are being applied.” No matter how advanced and automated technology is, safety management training and emergency response training are still important to prevent actual accidents in safety sites.”

Therefore, the Korea Gas Safety Corporation planned training focused on hands-on practice by establishing an environment similar to the real world, such as virtual reality (VR)-based toxic gas safety education and crisis response scenarios for each situation of a refrigeration manufacturing facility in order to cultivate human resources proficient in industrial site safety management. He said it had been running.

In addition, KDHC is exploring various ways to develop a curriculum based on 4th industry technology that will help trainees understand, and actively respond to the changing internal and external environment by expanding cyber education to maintain continuity of education even in emergency situations. Said the president Lim.

He emphasized, “We will continue to improve the quality of education by actively introducing new technologies such as VR, AR, and MR, rather than settling on the existing curriculum,” and “through this, we will contribute to improving the understanding and acceptance of trainees.”

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