Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science (대한안전경영과학회지)

Korea Safety Management & Science (대한안전경영과학회)
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Analysis of the relationship between regulation compliance and occupational injuries - Focusing on logistic and poisson regression analysis -

규제 순응도와 산업재해 발생 수준간의 관계 분석 - 로지스틱 회귀분석과 포아송 회귀분석을 중심으로 -

  • Rhee, Kyung-Yong (Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute, KOSHA) ;
  • Kim, Ki-Sik (Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute, KOSHA) ;
  • Yoon, Young-Shik (Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute, KOSHA)
  • 이경용 (한국산업안전보건공단 산업안전보건연구원) ;
  • 김기식 (한국산업안전보건공단 산업안전보건연구원) ;
  • 윤영식 (한국산업안전보건공단 산업안전보건연구원)
  • Received : 2013.04.20
  • Accepted : 2013.06.12
  • Published : 2013.06.30
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Abstract

OSHA(Occupational Safety and Health Act) generally regulates employer's business principles in the workplace to maintain safety environment. This act has the fundamental purpose to protect employee's safety and health in the workplace by reducing industrial accidents. Authors tried to investigate the correlation between 'occupational injuries and illnesses' and level of regulation compliance using Survey on Current Status of Occupational Safety & Health data by the various statistical methods, such as generalized regression analysis, logistic regression analysis and poison regression analysis in order to compare the results of those methods. The results have shown that the significant affecting compliance factors were different among those statistical methods. This means that specific interpretation should be considered based on each statistical method. In the future, relevant statistical technique will be developed considering the distribution type of occupational injuries.

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