At the SPL bakery in Pyeongtaek, where the death accident occurred on October 15, as many as 17 people have been caught in accidents over the past five years ago. Furthermore, the SPC restarted the machine without a cover the day after the death from the entrapment, forcing workers to work next to the machine where their colleague died the previous day.
In principle, the operation of the machine is a group of two people, but it is said that it was not actually done. In addition, when the Ministry of Employment and Labor ordered the suspension of work after the accident, about 10 employees were ordered to travel to the SPC-affiliated Daegu factory (October 17). What's more incomprehensible is that he also had an abnormal behavior of sending two boxes of bread to the funeral of an employee who died while working on bread in return.
In addition to labor problems, SPC has caused problems several times with illegal management. Typically, in 2012, the chairman committed tax evasion, and a fine of 64.7 billion won was imposed.
SPC includes employee abuse, industrial accidents, unfair internal transactions, etc. It can be seen as a case of failure in 'esg' management. It's easy to think of 'esg' only for the environment. What is esg management? It is composed of environmental society and governance. The above case did not guarantee the safety of workers and acted illegally, and it can be seen that they did not fulfill their social responsibility.
I think that SPC should consider employee safety and healthy labor first rather than increasing production. Companies have economic benefits through consumers' purchasing activities. However, if you don't take profits and have social responsibility, it will lead to a boycott of consumers.
Therefore, SPC should recognize that social responsibility directly affects corporate profits and make efforts to improve the working environment from now on.