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http://dx.doi.org/10.5916/jkosme.2014.38.9.1156

Change of safety consciousness of passengers onboard ship after the Sewol ferry incident  

Hwang, Kwang-Il (Division of Mechanical & Energy Systems Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean University)
Abstract
To prevent the Sewol incident again, by which the victims are 294 dead and still 10 missing, this study analyzed the change of safety consciousness of passengers onboard ship comparatively before and after the Sewol incident. The survey had performed 2 times at Jeju coastal cruise terminal at February 2014 and May 2014, and effective respondents were 394 and 401, respectively. After the Sewol incidents, the answers' ratio that they would follow the routes that the crews show and they would follow the crews' evacuation guides are decreased 24.5% and 18.5%, respectively. This means that the reliability on the crew members were decreased. Although 77.6% passengers responded that they felt nervousness onboard ship, 60% did not take safety lesson(s) and 45% did not know how to wear a life jacket. And also over 50% did not check the evacuation route map and the location of lifeboat, respectively. Meanwhile, 86.9% respondents answered the system of safey lesson should be changed, which has normally done by TV set.
Keywords
Sewol; Passenger ship; Passenger; Safety consciousness; Comparison;
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