Preventing suffocation accidents at livestock manure workplaces! Multi-language safety education to protect the lives of foreign workers.

To reduce livestock manure suffocation accidents occurring at rural sites, the government is producing and distributing multilingual safety education videos that foreign workers can understand. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (Minister Song Mi-ryeong), the Ministry of Environment and Energy (Minister Kim Seong-hwan), and the Livestock Environment Management Institute (Director Moon Hong-gil) announced that they are distributing multilingual safety education videos to domestic and foreign workers engaged in related industries to prevent suffocation accidents that may occur while working in enclosed spaces such as livestock manure discharge facilities (barns) and treatment facilities. Suffocation accidents occurring in enclosed spaces over a 10-year period from 2014 to 2023 amounted to 174 cases, resulting in 338 casualties (136 deaths, 202 injuries), and among these, accidents occurring at wastewater treatment facilities, septic tanks, and livestock manure ...