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http://dx.doi.org/10.7837/kosomes.2017.23.7.858

A Study on the Improvement of Safety Training of Shipbuilding Industry by Analysis of Serious Accidents in Shipbuilding Industry  

Lee, Jin-Woo (Offshore Training Team, Korea Institute of Maritime and Fisheries Technology)
Han, Cheol-Ho (Jungbu Regional Office, Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency)
Lee, Young-Ho (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean University)
Publication Information
Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety / v.23, no.7, 2017 , pp. 858-868 More about this Journal
Abstract
Korea's shipbuilding industry has led the world in the technical area over the last century. Despite this commendable performance, around 2,000 workers experience accidents almost every year with 40 being killed. This raises a question of whether the safety level of our shipbuilding industry, in particular the safety of workers, is actually at the world-class level. Accordingly, this research has analyzed several types of safety training currently provided in the field through investigating statistical data of serious accidents occurring from 2006 to 2015 in the domestic shipbuilding industry, analyzing its occurrence and causes, and conducting a survey targeting employees in the shipbuilding industry. Based on this, it has investigated problems of safety training in the shipbuilding industry and suggested improvements. First, it is essential to create a standard system for safety training in the shipbuilding industry to address problems of different kinds and levels of safety training provided by each shipyard and low quality of training, and operate more organized and systemized training. Second, safety training curriculum specializing in the shipbuilding industry should continue to be developed and standardized based on a standard system for safe training to prevent serious accidents and improve safety awareness of workers. Lastly, both employers and employees should actively provide and participate in safety training to secure safety of workers through preventing serious accidents and ultimately create safety-first culture in workplace.
Keywords
Serious accidents; Unsafe behavior; Unstable work environment; Objects which are direct cause of accidents; Safety training; Standard system of safety training;
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