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Analysis of the Feature Importance of Occupational Accidents Occurring at Construction Sites on the Severity of Lost Workdays

건설 현장에서 발생한 업무상 재해가 근로손실일수 심각도에 미치는 특징 중요도 분석

  • Kang, Kyung-Su (Construction Engineering and Management Institute, Sahmyook University) ;
  • Choi, Jae-Hyun (School of Architecturral Engineering, Korea University of Technology and Education (Koreatech)) ;
  • Ryu, Han-Guk (Department of Architectural, Sahmyook University)
  • Received : 2021.03.16
  • Accepted : 2021.04.09
  • Published : 2021.04.20
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Abstract

The construction industry causes the most accidents and fatalities among all industries. Although many efforts have been made to reduce safety accidents in construction, the study on the lost workdays that return to work place is insufficient. Therefore, this study proposes a model that classifies the lost workdays lost into moderate and severity, and derives the importance of variable and analyzes important factors through the trained random forest model. We analyze the learning process of the random forest which is a black box model, and extracted important variables that impact on the severity of the lost workdays through the extracted feature importance. The factors existing inside were analyzed through the extracted variables. The purpose of this study is to analyze the accident case data at the construction site through a random forest model and to review variables that have a high impact on the lost workdays. In the future, this sutdy can apply to improve construction safety management and reduce the accident of industrial accidents.

건설업은 전체 산업 분야 중에서 가장 많은 재해와 사망자를 발생시키는 산업 분야이다. 건설안전 재해를 줄이기 위한 큰 노력이 진행되어왔지만, 사망사고를 제외한 근로자의 업무복귀시간까지 회복되는 근로손실일수에 관한 연구는 매우 적은 편이다. 따라서 본 연구는 근로손실일수를 심각도로 정의하여 이를 분류하는 모형을 제안하고 학습된 모형을 통해 특징 중요도를 도출하고 중요한 특징을 분석하고자 하였다. 블랙박스 모형인 랜덤 포레스트의 학습 과정을 해석하고 추출된 특징 중요도를 통해 근로손실일수 심각도에 영향력을 행사하는 중요 변수를 추출하였다. 추출된 특징을 통해 내부에 존재하는 요인들을 분석하였다. 본 연구의 목적은 건설 현장에서 발생한 사고 사례 데이터를 랜덤 포레스트 모형을 통해 분석하고자 하였다. 근로손실일수의 심각도에 미치는 중요한 특징을 도출해 체계적으로 관리한다면 건설 재해를 예방할 수 있다.

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