Improving the Safety Management System for Ensuring the Psychological Safety of Construction Workers : Policy Recommendations on the Broken Transmission of Serious-Accident Regulation and Institutional Hollowing-out
[Purpose] Despite successive regulatory and punitive reinforcements, serious accidents in Korean construction have not fallen to policy targets. In 2025 injuries declined 14.4% while fatalities rose 10.1%, and the fatal accident rate eased only from 1.57 to 1.54 per 10,000 workers, driven by a 12.6% larger insured work...