KESCO Declares New Vision

Calls for "World Best Control Tower on Electrical Safety" to protect the lives and property of the people

Korea Electrical Safety Corp. (KESCO) held a ceremony on Dec. 1 at its auditorium to declare the company's new vision and ethical management with some 300 officials and staff and other related people in attendance led by President Lim In-bae. The ceremony was designed to determine the direction and targets of the new policy intended to open KESCO's future, as initiated by President Lim since his arrival on Oct. 7, 2007, so that every one of the company's 3,000 employees will be fully prepared to implement the new policy.
The company's new vision under the leadership of President Lim intends to make itself a leading global professional company in the area of electrical safety under the catch phrase "World Best Control Tower on Electrical Safety." The new vision is intended to make KESCO a leader in the globalization of electrical safety based on the company's accumulated know-how on electrical safety technological capacity and by putting into good use the network of 15 electrical safety organizations including members of FISUEL (International Federation for the Safety of Electricity Users).
President Lim called for strengthening the public function, social responsibility, realization of a new and exciting KESCO and sustainable growth base construction in all four strategic targets and the 10 largest strategic tasks, aimed at reducing electrical accidents to the level of advanced countries to 10 percent in 2011 from 20.1 percent in Korea as of this year.
The 10 major strategic tasks include upgrading the company's regular business areas; providing support to the development of electrical safety policies; the expansion of an electrical safety culture; deepening the company's ethical standards and social contribution; construction of a customer-centered business promotion process; expanding welfare for employees and boosting their satisfaction levels; the settlement of labor-management relations based on trust and harmony; securing top talented personnel for the company; pursuing management that is highly effective; and the exploration of a new electrical safety service.
The new vision also calls for boosting the company's customer satisfaction level to more than 90 percent and productivity by more than 10 percent per year to clearly show the innovation in the company's character, designed to firm up the direction of the company's future development.
President Lim will make sure that the company regularly hosts the FISEUL forum, which it has successfully brought to Asia and Korea for the first time. KESCO will also provide technical consultations to such countries as China, Thailand, the Philippines, Oman and Nigeria and export educational programs on electrical safety to Vietnam, all intended to expand the company's electrical safety technological capacity to the world.
This is all being done with the understanding that the development of the new vision hinges on the expansion of an ethical mindset companywide and a promise to practice ethical management based on basics and principles.
All standing directors of the company will sign a clean management agreement with the CEO, while all staff will sign an ethics contract so that the company will be able to overhaul its ethical management system.
The company also plans to revise the inspection and checkup systems on electrical installations to be more customer-oriented and set up a new electrical safety service so that people will feel the benefits from the electrical safety service aimed at maximizing customer value. All officers and staff will do their best so that the company will be one that is loved by the people and seen as a model government-run corporation that gives priority to the public's interests through the declaration ceremony.
FISUEL, based in Paris, was set up in 2002 to exchange information on electrical safety and electrical safety management systems among its member countries. The organization is also dedicated to setting standards on electrical safety management of electrical installations.
The organization has 19 regular member countries including Korea, Japan, France and Britain and 11 non-regular members made of electric companies in member countries.
FISUEL's 2008 forum took place in Korea, hosted by KESCO, on Nov. 12 with the theme of "Electrical Safety, An Endless Challenge." A total of 39 members representing 22 companies from 15 member countries attended the forum including those from Britain, France and Japan. nw

Executives of Korea Electrical Safety Corp. led by President Lim In-bae at a ceremony on Dec. 1 to declare the company's new vision.