Firm News
The bill on the Act on the Punishment of Companies Responsible for Grave Industrial Accidents, Etc. (the “Act on Punishment of Grave Industrial Accidents”)—which passed the National Assembly in January 2020 and will come into effect next year—has regulations that hold companies more strongly accountable for serious industrial accidents and public safety disasters than the Occupational Safety and Health Act. In response, BKL has launched the TF for the Prevention and Response to Grave Industrial Accidents and Public Safety Disasters, expanding and reorganizing the Industrial Safety TF. BKL was the first large law firm to launch a task force handling industrial safety issues back in as early as 2015. Building on such long expertise in industrial accidents, BKL’s new task force is comprised of professionals specialized in, among others, human resources management, criminal law and applicable regulations, environment, and construction who cooperate with various experts on chemistry, electricity, electronics or machinery depending on the case. Accordingly, BKL is now capable of providing the best one-stop legal services for any client who needs to manage industrial accidents and prevent safety accidents.
