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Analyzing the Status of Industrial Accidents and Investigation of Improve Methods of Hazard Factors in Franchise Industry

프랜차이즈 산업의 산업재해 현황 및 유해위험 요인에 대한 개선방안 조사

  • A Ran Lee (Department of Industrial Engineering, Kangwon National University) ;
  • Jung Hwan Byun (Occupational Safety and Health Institute, Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency) ;
  • Kyung-Sun Lee (Department of Industrial Engineering & Integrative Engineering for Hydrogen Safety Kangwon National University)
  • 이아란 (강원대학교 산업공학과) ;
  • 변정환 (안전보건공단 산업안전보건연구원) ;
  • 이경선 (강원대학교 에너지자원.산업공학부 산업공학전공)
  • Received : 2023.12.18
  • Accepted : 2024.05.16
  • Published : 2024.06.30
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Abstract

Article 79 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act mandates franchise headquarters with over 200 franchises to implement industrial accident prevention measures. Notably, the franchise business information provision system designates restaurants and wholesale/retail as the primary categories for information disclosure, with convenience stores classified as secondary. This study aims to identify law-regulated franchise headquarters and franchises and analyze industrial accidents within these sectors. Furthermore, it seeks to investigate adverse risk factors for individual processes across major industries. Pertinent franchise headquarters and franchises were discerned using the Fair Trade Commission's business information system. Data regarding the status of industrial accidents, as published by the Ministry of Employment and Labor, was leveraged in the analysis of industrial accidents. Additionally, a survey was conducted to derive detrimental factors for each process in major industries. The inquiry revealed a total of 7 wholesale and retail franchise headquarters subject to the law, along with 126 within the restaurant industry. Overall, there were 50,488 franchises in the wholesale and retail sector, and 71,283 in the restaurant business. Risk factors and improvement measures for industrial processes were determined for five industries: convenience stores, Korean food restaurants, coffee places, pizza eateries, and chicken vendors. Locating the currently developed safety and health program establishment guide proves to be challenging. Moreover, utilizing it can be difficult due to the industry-specific content, further complicated by the prevalence of franchise stores featuring numerous small businesses. Therefore, this study highlights the imperative need to develop guidelines that incorporate preventive measures tailored to each industry.

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Acknowledgement

This work was support by the Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute (OSHRI, 2022). This work was also supported by the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) and the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (MOTIE) of the Republic of Korea (No.20224000000080).

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