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South Korea MoEL Heat-Work Rule — Heat Stress Work/Rest Limits

South Korea Ministry of Employment and Labor apparent-temperature heat rule and 2025 implementation notices.

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Authority
Ministry of Employment and Labor (South Korea)
Jurisdiction
South Korea
Legal status
Regulation
Rule type
Mixed Trigger Schedule
Standard ID
HGC-028

Governing formula

No standalone formula is published for this standard; see programmable logic and parameters below.

Work/rest limits

Governing metric: Apparent temperature

Programmable logic: Uses the binding 2025 MoEL rule that requires at least 20 minutes of rest within every 2 hours of heat work at apparent temperature 33°C and above. The calculator keeps separate advisory fields for the 35°C and 38°C outdoor-work notices instead of treating them as hard statutory stop-work thresholds.

This standard does not take WBGT as a required input, and publishes no standalone numeric parameter table here; see the governing metric and programmable logic above, and the primary source below.

Inputs

Required inputs: none

Optional inputs: date, outdoor, heatIndexC, heatIndexF, airTempC, relativeHumidity

Sources

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