A former manager of Environmental Health and Safety at Samsung Vietnam has stepped forward as a whistleblower to reveal widespread use of toxic chemicals and environmental violations. South Korean investigative news media, Newstapa, has released five short video reports with English subtitles.1 Because Samsung is notoriously secretive, the Newstapa reports offer a rare glimpse into how the company’s mobile phone factories actually operate.
In 2017, the Hanoi-based Research Center for Gender, Family and Environment in Development (CGFED) and IPENreleased an unprecedented study on the experiences of women working at two Samsung factories in Vietnam, which documented health and workplace violations by the electronics industry giant. Workers reported experiences of frequent fainting, dizziness, miscarriages, standing for eight-to-twelve hours, and alternating day/night shift work. The Samsung whistleblower’s revelations are consistent with some of the health effects reported by workers. Samsung attacked the CGFED – IPEN report and denied its findings, but the company’s internal documents reveal a pattern of unsound chemicals management documented by a 40-year veteran of the company who became a whistleblower.
1 1: Global Samsung's Dangerous Factory #1: A Safety Manager's Confession
2: Global Samsung’s Dangerous Factory #2: The Secret of 7 Years of Stench
3: Global Samsung’s Dangerous Factory #3: Evolving Risk
4: Global Samsung’s Dangerous Factory #4: Risk Transferred
5: Global Samsung’s Dangerous Factory #5: A Hole in 'Samsung Management'
The diagram (to the right) is overlaid on top of the air pollution filter at Samsung’s Bac Ninh factory in Vietnam. The large letters say, “design defect” because the unit was not designed properly and allowed toxic substances to be released into the air. (Photo still from https://newstapa.org/article/E-rbn)
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2023.04.12
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삼성 내부고발자, 베트남 공장의 독성 화학물질 실태 폭로
(대한민국 서울) 삼성 베트남 환경보건안전 담당자였던 강 아무개 씨가 만연한 독성 화학물질 사용과
환경오염 실태를 폭로했다. 한국의 탐사보도 매체인 뉴스타파에서는 이를 다섯 개의 비디오 리포트로
보도하면서 영문 자막도 제작했다.1 삼성의 악명 높은 비밀주의 때문에 거의 알려지지 않았던 공장의 운영
실태를 보여주는 희귀한 자료이다. 뉴스타파는 보도를 통하여 수많은 베트남 전자산업 노동자들에 대한
보호를 강화하고 전자제품 생산 전반에 걸쳐 사용되는 화학물질에 대한 투명성이 필요함을 강조하고 있다.
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Samsung Whistleblower Reveals Toxic Chemical Use and Violations at Samsung Vietnam
A former manager of Environmental Health and Safety at Samsung Vietnam has stepped forward as a whistleblower to reveal widespread use of toxic chemicals and environmental violations. South Korean investigative news media, Newstapa, has released five short video reports with English subtitles.1 Because Samsung is notoriously secretive, the Newstapa reports offer a rare glimpse into how the company’s mobile phone factories actually operate.
In 2017, the Hanoi-based Research Center for Gender, Family and Environment in Development (CGFED) and IPENreleased an unprecedented study on the experiences of women working at two Samsung factories in Vietnam, which documented health and workplace violations by the electronics industry giant. Workers reported experiences of frequent fainting, dizziness, miscarriages, standing for eight-to-twelve hours, and alternating day/night shift work. The Samsung whistleblower’s revelations are consistent with some of the health effects reported by workers. Samsung attacked the CGFED – IPEN report and denied its findings, but the company’s internal documents reveal a pattern of unsound chemicals management documented by a 40-year veteran of the company who became a whistleblower.
1 1: Global Samsung's Dangerous Factory #1: A Safety Manager's Confession
2: Global Samsung’s Dangerous Factory #2: The Secret of 7 Years of Stench
3: Global Samsung’s Dangerous Factory #3: Evolving Risk
4: Global Samsung’s Dangerous Factory #4: Risk Transferred
5: Global Samsung’s Dangerous Factory #5: A Hole in 'Samsung Management'
The diagram (to the right) is overlaid on top of the air pollution filter at Samsung’s Bac Ninh factory in Vietnam. The large letters say, “design defect” because the unit was not designed properly and allowed toxic substances to be released into the air. (Photo still from https://newstapa.org/article/E-rbn)
Download the pres release below.