The upcoming report on business and human rights, which is scheduled to be published in 2013, will help raise public awareness about business and human rights, and present measures to improve relevant legal provisions, systems, policies and practices. Going forward, the Commission will supplement the Guidelines on Human Rights-friendly Management and Checklists, do a test-run by applying them to private enterprises first, and distribute it throughout the whole of society thereafter. B. Major Activities 1) Recommendation Related to Human Rights Laws and Policies □ Recommendation to Improve the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act It was found that occupational diseases are on the rise because of the changes occurring in the social environment; nevertheless, the victims of the occupational diseases are often offered insufficient compensation. As such, the Commission recommended the Minister of Employment and Labor as follows (May 17, 2012): 1) To amend the provision related to the burden of proof in the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act to ensure that the plaintiff has the responsibility to prove that he or she has been exposed to or has handled hazardous and dangerous items while performing work whereas the defendant bears the responsibility to prove that the alleged disease has nothing to do with the work in question; 2) To supplement and compliment the Attached Table #3 “Specific for the Recognition of Industrial Diseases in the Enforcement Decree on the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act,” the disease list of which has not been updated since 2003; 3) To come up with measures to strengthen the independence, impartiality and professionalism of the occupational disease approval committees by improving committee member appointment system so that the chair of the committee is appointed among non-government officials and an occupational health & safety specialist is in attendance at committee meetings; and, Chapter 1. Improvement of Laws, Regulations, Policies and Practices 77