KESCO President Song Committed to Management Reform
- Deeply concerned with preventive measures for electrical accidents

"Public corporations should not take comfort in the inflexible organizational culture, but do their best to provide services to the satisfaction of customers like private companies have been doing," said Song In-hoi, president of the Korea Electrical Safety Corp.(KESCO) recently.
President Song, who declared his vision for managerial reform at KESCO in November, has been preoccupied with getting hold of the company's managerial system ranging from performances by employees and their work attitudes, organizational structure and the flow of decision-making process.
He said he has been serious about the company's operation since it has every thing to do with keeping the people safe from accidents sparked by electrical mishaps by inspecting electrical facilities in buildings, homes and plants.
The new CEO found out that the KESCO needed a lot of changes, which is why he drew up "Jump 2007 Management Reform," on Nov.22 in a bid to make the firm a leading government-invested firm in the country by 2007.
Major points of the vision include; The service recall system that the company would send its people to customers to ensure the safety from electrical mishaps; The speed call system, which would have the company dispatch technicians instantly as soon as they get calls for power outage and electrical mishaps; The establishment of an automatic accident sensor system to learn the outbreak of electrical accidents on real time; And the implementation of ethical management system.
Song said he signed the management reform result agreement with 26 officers and regional managers under which every department will have the target of management reform and those achieving the target will get a 30 percent achievement bonus.
The president said since the last century when electricity, the greatest human invention, was introduced in Korea, it has contributed much to humans as the energy source for industrial sites and indispensable modern conveniences. In the future, the efficiency of electricity is expected to become even higher.
In the meantime, electrical facilities are getting more and more complicated and diversified due to the advancement of technology. It is not an exaggeration to say that the guarantee of electrical safety at home or on industrial sites is critical for the improvement of welfare and the pursuit of happiness of the people.
Since its establishment in 1974, the KESCO has grown into the only professional agency for electrical safety and accident prevention. It has done, and will continue to do, its utmost to create a new electrical safety culture through investigations, research, publicity and inspection related to electrical safety, as well as through emergency repairs in the case of disaster. It does this for the purpose of "Protection of the national life and properties from Electrical Disaster."
Equipped with the best technical personnel and up-to-date equipment, KESCO has made great efforts to secure the safety of all electrical facilities from hydraulic, thermal and nuclear power plants, power system such as Power transmission and distribution facilities, to electrical facilities for industrial facilities and general housing.
For the purpose of promoting systematic and scientific electrical safety management, KESCO operates and Electrical Safety Laboratory Research Institute to investigate, research and develop new technology, as well as an Electrical Safety Technology Institute with up-to-date education equipment to distribute safety technology and cultivate professional personnel.
In addition, the engineering business of our corporation has constructed an ISO 9002 Quality Management System to provide excellent quality technical service for electrical facilities, Our Safety Test Center, a nationally certified test center, supports the improvement of quality and the acquisition of famous foreign licenses, such as the UL, CE, GS marks, on all electrical and electronic products. nw