Journal of the Korean Society of Safety (한국안전학회지)

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Is the Risk Unloaded on Dispatch and Service Supplier?: Influence of Indirect Employment on Safety, Health and Satisfaction

위험은 파견, 용역 직원에게 외주화 되는가?: 간접 고용이 안전, 건강, 만족에 미치는 효과

  • Moon, Kwangsu (Department of Psychology, Chung-Ang University) ;
  • Ahn, Ji Yeon (Department of Psychology, Chung-Ang University) ;
  • Jang, Tong Il (Nuclear ICT Research Division, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) ;
  • Oah, Shezeen (Department of Psychology, Chung-Ang University)
  • 문광수 (중앙대학교 심리학과) ;
  • 안지연 (중앙대학교 심리학과) ;
  • 장통일 (한국원자력연구원 원자력 ICT 연구부) ;
  • 오세진 (중앙대학교 심리학과)
  • Received : 2017.02.14
  • Accepted : 2017.06.08
  • Published : 2017.06.30
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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of employment type(direct employment, dispatch and service supplier) on risk factor exposure, health and satisfaction. The data of the 4th wave of Korean Working Conditions Survey (KWCS) conducted by Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency (KOSHA) in South Korea was used. Business support service industry and manufacturing industry were selected as appropriate industries for analysis. In the final analysis, 5,865 in the manufacturing industry and 1,361 in the service support industry were included. Various variables related risk, safety, satisfaction and health such as risk factor exposure, MSDs exposure, work environment satisfaction, injury probability, dangerous work, workload, physical health problem, perceived health, positive emotions, stress, participation for decision making and experience of accident/disease were analyzed and company size and age was controled. An ANCOVA was conducted to identify significant mean differences of risk, safety, satisfaction and health related variables among direct employed workers, dispatch and service supplier workers. The results showed that all the variables except stress showed a significant difference depending on employment type in the service supply industry. In the manufacturing industry, there were significant difference in the risk factor exposure, MSDs exposure, work environment satisfaction, workload, physical health problem, perceived health, and participation depending on employment type. These results indicated that the risks are unloaded to subcontract and outsourcing company workers. Based on these results, the implications of this study and suggestions for future research were discussed.

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