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http://dx.doi.org/10.9728/dcs.2015.16.3.417

System Dynamics Modeling for Policy Analysis of Occupational Injuries  

Chung, Hee Tae (Dept.of Health Management, Namseoul University)
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Journal of Digital Contents Society / v.16, no.3, 2015 , pp. 417-424 More about this Journal
Abstract
The research of occupational injury for safety and health is a comparatively recent occurrence. As labor activities took place regarding to employee concerns in industrial uprising, human resources health was tried to enhanced as a labor safety subject. Noticing that traditional statistics approach has limitations in learning future forecasting and major factors causing occupational injuries in each industry, Korean Government initiated a quantitative systematic simulation model project to analyze how the annual injury rate has been dropped and stays in a level for recent years. From this motivation and the project, system dynamics models have been developed to explain the mechanisms for reducing annual injury rate, and the mechanisms quantitatively. The main cause effects for the reduction of annual injury rate were due to the government driven investment on safety facilities. In overall viewpoint the gain achievable from these efforts has been reached a saturated level. However, it could reduce the annual injury rate if you chose the industry and size carefully. The model for forecasting, major injury factors, safety budget and allocation are introduced and analyzed, and Analyzing occupational injury related factors can also reduce employee injury and disease related costs, including medical care, quit, and disability assistance costs.
Keywords
occupational injury; system dynamics models; forecasting; safety facilities;
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